Chương I Thông tư 48/2017/TT-BYT: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope

This Circular shall deal with electronic data, electronic data formatting, processes, protocols and time of transfer of electronic data and responses sent on receipt of transferred electronic data for the purposes of management, verification and payment of health care costs covered by the health insurance plan.

Article 2. Definition

For the purposes of this Circular, terms used herein shall be construed as follows:

1. General nomenclature refers to general information about medical technology services, medicines, medical equipment, blood and other formulated products, names of illnesses, healthcare establishments and others related to healthcare activities which have already been encoded and divided into separate classification schedules (General nomenclature codes) approved by the Minister of Health and enforceable at healthcare establishments providing health insurance -covered medical services, and entities carrying out inspection and payment of covered medical costs across the nation.

2. Information technology infrastructure refers to a combination of computing devices (servers or workstations), peripheral devices, network connected devices, auxiliary devices, local networks, wide area networks, IT applications and other equipment.

3. XML refers to the abbreviation for the English phrase “eXtensible Markup Language" that means the markup language that can be extended and is created to share electronic data between different IT systems.

4. UTF-8 refers to the Unicode 8-bit transformation format.

Article 3. Principles of transfer and receipt of electronic data

1. Electronic data must conform to requirements set out herein.

2. Transfer and receipt of electronic data must ensure clarity, integrity, equality, safety, confidentiality, effectiveness and conform to laws on electronic transactions.