Vietnam city’s plan for ’smart’ health system
25-Jun-16, Viet Nam News
A project to create an intelligent health system for HCM City will be submitted to the People’s Committee next month, Lê Thái Hỷ, head of the city Department of Information and Communication has said.
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Speaking at the 2016 Việt Nam ICT Outlook conference held by the HCM City Computer Association, he said details of the project would be published in the media to gather opinions from IT companies, health facilities and the public. He sought policy assistance from the Government to carry out the project, the first of its kind in the country.
Dr Tăng Chí Thượng, deputy head of the city Department of Health, said his department is working with DoIC to establish a common data centre for the health sector by next year. A recently completed study of IT use at 92 hospitals, 24 preventive health centres and 319 other health centres in the city found a shortage of servers and computers at district-level facilities, he said.