HCM CITY — At least 13,000 of a total of 14,000 medical clinics nationwide have installed a healthcare insurance IT system since June. “The healthcare insurance IT system has been very effective and created a breakthrough in healthcare, insurance management and administrative reform,” Nguyễn Thị Minh, general director of Việt Nam Healthcare Insurance, said. “It has also created transparency and favourable conditions to ensure rights for healthcare insurance patients, and it has significantly saved expenditures,” she added. The investments for the IT system follows the Ministry of Healthcare’s Plan 1418 on applying IT for healthcare insurance payments and an integrated healthcare database. The Bạch Mai Hospital’s emergency department chose to set up an electronic hospital system (e-Hospital).

Source: Viet Nam News August 24, 2016 02:02 UTC