Benefits of connecting electronic health examination data

29 medical facilities deploy electronic health certificates

Every day, the Northwest Nghe An Regional General Hospital receives a large number of people from Quy Chau, Que Phong, Quy Hop districts and Thai Hoa town coming for health check-ups to carry out procedures to exchange their passports.Driving licenseHere, the hospital conducts driver health checks in a 5-step process, including: People register for medical examination information; undergo paraclinical tests (test for drugs in urine, measure alcohol concentration in breath); specialized eye, ear - nose - throat examination; internal and general examination (measure body index, ask for medical history, examine cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, urinary, mental, neurological, musculoskeletal...); conclude and return Health Examination Certificate.

Mr. Le Van Son (Thai Hoa town) shared that the health check-up in exchange forDriving licenseof yours: According to the latest regulations, all cases of renewing a driver's license for all classes of cars must have a driver's health certificate issued by a competent medical facility. This regulation is to ensure that the driver is qualified to drive a vehicle at the time of reissuance of the license or new driver's license. However, currently, to renew a level 4 online driver's license (receive a driver's license at home) on the National Public Service Portal, an electronic health certificate is required. If not examined at hospitals that support the issuance of electronic health certificates or have data interconnection for driver health examinations, then after having a health certificate at another medical facility, people go to the People's Committee of the ward or commune to electronically certify the health certificate... This creates procedures, wastes time and costs.

“Currently, the Northwest Regional General Hospital has deployed the issuance of electronic health certificates, which is very convenient for us. When I came here for a check-up, according to the process of about 3 hours, I received a paper copy of the examination results. At the same time, within 5-7 minutes, this health information data was also pushed to the Health Insurance Assessment Portal, integrating data into the National Public Service Portal to change the Driver's License online", said Mr. Le Van Son.

Discussing the issuance of electronic health certificates, Mr. Tang Viet Ha - Director of the Northwest Regional General Hospital said: Implementing the national digital transformation policy and the direction of the health sector, the hospital has deployed the issuance of electronic health certificates since the beginning of 2023. Thanks to the synchronous investment from the information technology system; the staff performing health examination and testing work is guaranteed, so the health examination and issuance of health certificates of the Hospital are smooth and secure. As of August 7, 2023, the Hospital has transferred data of 472 electronic health certificates.

The Northwest Regional General Hospital is just one of the medical facilities qualified to examine and issue Driver's Health Certificates and has successfully connected Driver's Health Certificate data to the Health Insurance Assessment Portal to perform online public services. At this time, Nghe An has 29 medical examination and treatment facilities announced to be qualified to examine drivers' health, of which, there are 3 provincial facilities; 13 district facilities; and 4 ministerial and sectoral facilities in the area. Up to now, 100% of the facilities have been granted accounts, 100% of the facilities have deployed the connection of Driver's Health Certificates to the Health Insurance Assessment Portal.

29 medical facilities that connect data on Driver's Health Examination Certificates in Nghe An include: Hospitals: Provincial General Hospital, Northwest region, Southwest region, Thanh Chuong, Do Luong, Yen Thanh, Quynh Luu, Nghi Loc, Military Region 4, Quynh Lap Central Dermatology Hospital, 115 Nghe An, Thai An, Cua Dong, Provincial Police, Vinh TTH, Dong Au, Quang Khoi, Vinh International, Minh An, Quang Thanh, Vinh City, facility 1 and facility 2. Along with that are medical centers in the districts: Nam Dan, Anh Son, Tan Ky, Ky Son, Nghia Dan and Hong Tung General Clinic.

Efforts to bring convenience to people

Information from Nghe An Health Department: According to Decision No. 06/QD-TTg dated January 6, 2022 of the Prime Minister approving the Project "Development of population data application; electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation in the period 2022 - 2025, vision to 2030" (Project 06), the Ministry of Health is responsible for building a database of Driver's Health Certificates to serve online public services of issuing, exchanging and re-issuing Driver's Licenses of the Ministry of Transport.

To coordinate the implementation of Project 06, the Ministry of Health issued Official Dispatch No. 7586/BYT-KCB dated December 30, 2022 on the connection of driver health examination data to serve Project 06. The content of the Official Dispatch requires that from January 1, 2023, the connection of driver health examination certificate data to the Health Insurance Assessment Portal be officially implemented at all medical examination and treatment facilities registered to be qualified to examine and issue health examination certificates to drivers nationwide.

In Nghe An, immediately after receiving the directive document from the Ministry of Health, the Nghe An Department of Health issued Official Dispatch No. 25/SYT-NVY dated January 5, 2023, directing medical examination and treatment facilities qualified to conduct driver health examinations to urgently deploy the connection of driver health examination certificate data to the Health Insurance Assessment Portal; issued Official Dispatch No. 484/SYT-NVY dated February 28, 2023, instructing medical examination and treatment facilities qualified to conduct driver health examinations to update and transfer driver health examination certificate data to the Health Insurance Assessment Portal to serve Project 06.

At the same time, the Department of Health has also established an interdisciplinary Health - Social Insurance Support Team to guide the implementation at medical examination and treatment facilities under its management; directed units to promote communication work on the issuance of electronic Health Certificates in various forms so that people who need to issue a Health Certificate for driving can know about the implementation of online issuance and renewal of Driver's Licenses being deployed in the province.

Mr. Tran Minh Tue - Deputy Director of the Department of Health said: The Department of Health has regularly updated the list of medical examination and treatment facilities qualified to examine drivers' health and have deployed the connection of Health Examination Certificates to the online information portal of the Health sector or on the industry's media such as Facebook, Fanpage...; coordinated to send the list of facilities qualified to examine drivers' health to the Department of Transport and Social Insurance to synchronously deploy Project 06. Since the beginning of the year, 29 medical facilities have issued 23,647 electronic Health Examination Certificates for drivers.

Currently, Nghe An Health Department is continuing to strictly direct medical facilities to strictly carry out health examinations, fully examine clinical specialties and perform all mandatory paraclinical tests according to regulations, especially drug testing and alcohol concentration measurement for health examinations for drivers; strengthen the direction of the remaining medical facilities to improve the conditions for driver health examinations, such as investing in testing facilities, information technology systems and operating human resources, avoiding the situation where people from one district have to go to another district to get a driver health certificate; research a model of medical facilities collaborating with functional agencies to support online driver license exchange for people when coming to get a driver health certificate.