Chapter III
RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Article 16. Responsibility of units affiliated to Ministry of Health
1. The Information Technology Department shall play the leading role and cooperate with the Vietnam Administration of Medical Services, the Traditional Medicine Administration of Vietnam and the Maternal and Child Health Department in:
a) directing, instructing and inspecting the implementation of this Circular nationwide.
b) publishing health facilities adopting EMRs instead of paper medical records, those employing storage and transmission of medical images instead of hard-copy films, and those storing laboratory test-related information instead of printing of paper documents on the web portal of the Ministry of Health and website of the Information Technology Department (http://ehealth.gov.vn).
2. The Vietnam Administration of Medical Services shall play the leading role and cooperate with the Traditional Medicine Administration of Vietnam, the Maternal and Child Health Department, the Information Technology Department and relevant authorities and organizations in adding and completing forms of paper medical records, personal health records and hospital discharge summaries, and then submitting them to the Minister of Health for promulgation.
3. The Health Insurance Department shall play the leading role and cooperate with relevant authorities and organizations in completing output data standards used in management, assessment and reimbursement of costs of medical services covered by health insurance fund.
4. The Ministry Office, Ministry Inspectorate and other Departments/General Departments affiliated to the Ministry of Health shall cooperate with the Information Technology Department in developing shared lists in each specialized sector and performing state management of application of information technology within the ambit of their assigned functions, duties and powers.
Article 17. Responsibility of Provincial Departments of Health and health agencies affiliated to Ministries
1. Direct, instruct and inspect the implementation of this Circular within their competence.
2. Prepare and submit consolidated reports on the implementation of this Circular to the Ministry of Health in December annually.
Article 18. Responsibility of health facilities
1. Head of each health facility shall proactively formulate and implement its plans for adoption of EMRs in accordance with regulations herein.
2. Head of each health facility shall, by consulting its specialized council as prescribed in Article 19 hereof or an independent consultancy unit, decide its management and retention of EMRs instead of paper medical records, storage and transmission of medical images instead of hard-copy films, and storage of laboratory test-related information instead of printing of paper documents.
3. The head of each health facility shall, before retaining EMRs instead of paper medical records, storing and transmitting medical images instead of hard-copy films, and storing laboratory test-related information instead of printing of paper documents, notify the Information Technology Department affiliated to the Ministry of Health in writing for publishing relevant information on the web portal of the Ministry of Health and its website.
Article 19. Specialized councils
1. Specialized councils shall be established by heads of health facilities and take charge of providing advice for such heads of health facilities about the use and retention of EMRs instead of paper medical records, storage and transmission of medical images instead of hard-copy films, and storage of laboratory test-related information instead of printing of paper documents.
2. Each specialized council is comprised of at least 07 members, including a Chairperson, a member who also holds the Clerk position, and other members, and among them there are members specialized in information technology and healthcare sectors.
3. A specialized council shall operate by following collective discussion and majority rules, and shall be automatically dissolved upon the completion of assigned duties.
Tìm kiếm
Thông tư 46/2018/TT-BYT (Bản Word)
