On June 6, the Minister of Health issued Circular 13/2025/TT-BYT guiding the implementation of electronic medical records, effective from July 21, 2025.
The Ministry of Health requires medical examination and treatment facilities licensed to operate as hospitals to implement electronic medical records no later than September 30, 2025.
For other medical examination and treatment facilities with inpatients, day care and outpatients, deploy electronic medical records, to be completed no later than December 31, 2026.
According to this Circular, Electronic medical records are medical records specified in Clause 17, Article 2 of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment, which are established, updated, displayed, signed, stored, managed, used and exploited by electronic means. The establishment and updating of electronic medical records of patients at medical examination and treatment facilities must ensure full information as prescribed in Chapter X of Circular No. 32/2023/TT-BYT dated December 31, 2023 of the Ministry of Health detailing a number of articles of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment.
Connecting information of electronic medical records with personal identification numbers of Vietnamese citizens and foreigners who have been granted electronic identification accounts according to the provisions of law on identification. The connection of information complies with the provisions of law on medical examination and treatment, data, information technology, electronic transactions, network information security, network security, access to information, protection of personal data, data storage; regulations on management, connection and sharing of electronic data of state agencies.
This Circular also regulates the use of medical records and recording of medical records.
Regulations on the use of medical records: Medical examination and treatment facilities use medical records in the form of paper medical records or electronic medical records; Medical examination and treatment facilities applying electronic medical records must ensure that all information fields of the medical records are fully included.
Regulations on recording medical records: Record accurately, honestly, and completely the information in the medical record, the results of medical examination, paraclinical tests, functional tests, the diagnosis, treatment, care process, and other relevant information during the patient's treatment at the medical examination and treatment facility; Recording must comply with the contents and professional instructions that have been issued.../.
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