Advances in health care and medical management

From October 1, 2025, all hospitals nationwide will be required to apply electronic prescriptions. This is a new regulation in Circular No. 26/2025/TT-BYT dated June 30, 2025 of the Ministry of Health regulating prescriptions and prescriptions of pharmaceuticals and biological products in outpatient treatment at medical examination and treatment facilities. Before that, by September 30, 2025, medical facilities must complete the implementation of electronic medical records and electronic health books integrated on the VNeID application. This is an important step in the process of digital transformation of the health sector, towards more synchronous, transparent and effective management.

The simultaneous implementation of electronic prescriptions and medical records requires medical facilities to invest synchronously in information technology infrastructure, ensure stable transmission lines, and have a server system strong enough to store and secure data. Along with that, the management software must be compatible with national medical data standards, easily connecting between facilities. Human resources are also a key factor. Therefore, the team of doctors, nurses, and medical staff need to be trained to use the system proficiently, ensuring quick operations in a high-pressure working environment. In particular, the confidentiality of patients' personal information must be given top priority, meeting network information security standards.

When deployed synchronously, medical data will become a valuable source of information for research, disease forecasting and public health policy planning. Electronic prescription information and medical records help management agencies easily detect irregularities in prescriptions, antibiotic abuse, and optimize health insurance costs.

For people, this is a step forward to help change medical examination and treatment habits. Storing the entire treatment history on an electronic platform makes it convenient when changing medical examination locations, going on business trips or traveling, because the records are always ready and consistent. However, the challenges in implementing electronic medical records or electronic prescriptions are still not small, especially at the grassroots health care level and small clinics, where technological infrastructure is limited. Therefore, to ensure the progress and quality of implementation, strong technical, financial and training support from the Ministry of Health is required, along with the initiative of each locality.

For Dong Nai , a locality with a large number of public and non-public medical facilities, completing the implementation of electronic medical records and electronic prescriptions on time is not only a legal requirement, but also a commitment to improve the quality of service to the people. This is also an opportunity for the province's health sector to comprehensively transform, catching up with the modernization trend in the management and care of people's health. Because electronic prescriptions and electronic medical records are not only support tools, but also the "key" to opening a new phase of the health sector: more transparent, more effective and putting patients at the center.

Minh Ngoc

Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/xa-hoi/202508/buoc-tien-trong-quan-ly-y-te-va-cham-soc-suc-khoe-662260c/