The Ministry of health of Vietnam has considered to apply the information technology (IT) and establish the health information system. The MOH also considered to set up the National health and medical information system as well as strategy of development, objectives, service products and solutions for this system.
Information Management ; Information Systems

Based on the practice of workflow, information management system about medical equipment was developed and its functions such as gathering, browsing, inquiring and counting were introduced. With dynamic and complete case management of medical equipment, the system improved the management of medical equipment.
Equipment and Supplies ; Information Management ; Management Information Systems

Going toward the modernized and industrialized aim of Cho Ray hospital and using wide capabiliti of information technology of treating the diseades, we have done a software for diabetics to provide all kinds of diets suited for the clinical nutrition conditions. The software can used for Nutrition departments at hospitals, industry cookers, restaurant, hotel
Dietetics ; Software ; Information Management

Background: Information technology plays an important role in the developmental process. Activities of the Vietnam health sector mainly provide social services so that the investment in application and development of information technology has met various difficulties and constraints. Objectives: This study aims to discover the real status and resolutions in state management on health information technology. Subjects and method: Research performed on 144 state organizations involved in the health sector in Vietnam, with 403 surveys between 2006 and 2007. The data were collected and analyzed by SPSS 10.0 software. Results: The state management capacity on information technology in the health sector remained weak and contains shortcomings. The health sector had no overall plan for applying and developing information technology; 43.8% of surveyed organizations have no special division for IT; 34.7% have no IT specialist. The investment effect was not high enough yet, up to 62.5% of surveyed organizations have LAN but only 42.4% have specialist management of software. There are no procedures for monitoring, surveying and assessing the effect of IT activities in the health sector. Conclusion: Real state of management on IT in the health sector still face many difficulties and ineffectiveness due to the orientation for application of IT development in the health sectors is still unclear.
State management ; information technology

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Information Management* ; Narcotics*

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Information Management* ; Occupational Health*

The development of Information technology affects the medical field a lot. Even though the PACS is developed for filmless hospital, the initial cost is very high and the investment effect is not clear yet. The purpose of this paper is to develop a costeffective hospital PACS which can be integrated with existing hospital information systems. Even though the PACS is developed for small sized hospitals, it has all the important functions of the large-scaled PACS system can provide such as image processing, clinic and patient information management, image file transfer through communication, and report generator functions for various types of hard output. Also, the developed system is designed for future expansion and compatibility with other hospital information systems.
Hospital Information Systems ; Humans ; Information Management ; Investments

Recently, the health sector of Viet Nam has gathered important achievements. Especially, several scientific-technological achievements has been developed and applied successfully in health, take the medical science of Viet Nam to keep pace with that of other regional countries. These involve endoscopy, color ultrasonography, three-dimensional ultrasonography, coronary angiography and stent, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, in vitro fertility (IVF), bone marrow and kidney transplantation. It is showed that information technology has motivated the development of different sciences, especially the medical science.
Information Management ; Health Care Sector

In Vietnam, the development of the health information should focus on the disease management and primary health care. Which included the back up of medical record, patient registration, professional development and support to the primary health care, concurrently establishment of telemedicine, telehealthcare, and remote health care system for remote and deep areas.
Information Management ; Health Care Sector

BACKGROUND: Current international recommendations in generating and using evidence in Health Research Priority Setting (HRPS) include the use of systematic reviews, and systematic or scientific situational analysis. In the Philippines, the Philippine National Health Research System's (PNHRS) National Guidelines for Health Research Prioritization recommends the use of either a Combined Approach Matrix (CAM) or situational analysis in generating and using evidence for HRPS. At present, there is a lack of a gold standard in generating and utilizing evidence in HRPS.

OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this paper is to document a practical yet alternative/innovative approach on how evidence was generated and utilized in the process of HRPS as observed in the development of the National Unified Health Research Agenda (NUHRA) in the Philippines. Specifically, it identifies the types of knowledge products produced and their role in the process of health research agenda setting; how evidence was used and managed in the course of NUHRA development; and, the lessons learned from the experience.

METHODS: This case study is descriptive of the experience of generating and utilizing evidence for HRPS in the Philippines. The study utilized primary and secondary data. Knowledge Management (KM) was used as a lens to describe the process of generating and managing information for the NUHRA. Document analysis was used in comparing and aligning data with the integrated KM framework.

RESULTS: Pre-selected data were captured and created; shared and disseminated; and subsequently acquired and applied voluntarily by stakeholders during the process of HRPS. Relevant data was presented into various information products designed with a specific stakeholder in mind. Technical papers were developed to cater to national level stakeholders and focused on broad, nationally-relevant issues. Regional situational analysis reports focused on regional and local data and were designed for regional stakeholders to use during the development of Regional Unified Health Research Agenda (RUHRA). Infographics were developed to present the findings of the technical papers creatively and concisely and the NUHRA methodology and were presented to both national and regional stakeholders. The RUHRAs and the NUHRA were the outputs of the health research prioritization activities and will be made available through local and national channels of the PNHRS.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Opportunities for formalization and institutionalization of knowledge management for generating and using evidence in HRPS may be explored to address health information fragmentation across the health research system.