Telemedicine technology and clinical applications

The health sector has set up a network of satellite medical institutions countrywide; of which, some have conducted difficult techniques to save patients with incurable disease building trust amongst patients and contributing to overload reduction in big hospitals. According to Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the Medical Examination and Treatment Department, within five years, the health sector has built 161 satellite medical clinics with ten specialized wards that the sector has taken heed including tumor, surgery, heart, maternity, pediatrics, nerve, hematology, intensive care, and anti-poisoning. Thank to technology transferring from big hospitals, medical workers of some infirmaries in districts are able to perform organ transplant, endoscope, feeding premature babies. Unlike before when residents in mountainous and distant districts had to go to big hospitals for surgery, they now can stay in local infirmaries. So far, by the Ministry of Health’s statistic, up to 85.5 percent … [Read more...] about Medical project obtains good achievements

The signing ceremony for a strategic partnership agreement between the Russian Centre of Corporate Medicine (CCM) and Vietnam’s Dr. Binh Tele Clinic was held in Hanoi on March 5, marking a new milestone in providing management services and remote healthcare for individuals, households, and businesses in Vietnam. Under the agreement, CCM will provide services in emergency first aid, remote health care, chronic disease management, and prevention of occupational and malignant diseases to international standards. The cooperation is expected to provide high efficiency healthcare for labourers in enterprises, especially in the field of chronic disease management and prevention of malignant and occupational diseases due to toxic environments. The model also promises to make changes, particularly in the sense of "prevention rather than cure." Professor Sergey Antipov, Director General of CCM, said that the application of telemedicine technology with the help of TeleHealth Centre 24/7 … [Read more...] about Russia provides remote health care services to Vietnam