Healthcare IT News July 15, 2024
Patients and their doctors can now access their digital health records from a single platform.
A platform for creating, viewing, and sharing electronic health records has been rolled out in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
On 28 June, the city rolled out its EHR platform. According to a state media report, the platform enables relevant authorities, including doctors, to access the health information of individual patients, who also have the right to opt in or out of sharing their records.
The implementation follows the synchronisation of the health records of over 1.2 million Hanoi citizens on the e-identification application, VNeID.
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