By September 2025, hospitals must complete electronic medical records.

The Ministry of Health has just released a plan to deploy electronic medical records nationwide and requires it to be completed by September 2025.

According to Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Tri Thuc, the implementation of electronic medical records is a key and top priority task, so heads of agencies and units must take full responsibility for this work, prioritize resources, mobilize the participation of organizations, businesses and people; at the same time, resolutely implement, ensure quality, and ensure progress at all hospitals and institutes with beds nationwide, to be completed in September 2025, according to Directive 07/CT-TTg dated March 14, 2025 of the Prime Minister.

The implementation of electronic medical records must ensure substance, bring specific effectiveness, improve productivity, quality of medical examination and treatment, disease prevention, and bring practical benefits to people and medical facilities. At the same time, ensure information security, network security and information confidentiality according to regulations.

Electronic medical records bring many benefits to hospitals and patients.

To achieve the above goal, Deputy Minister Nguyen Tri Thuc requested the Department of Science, Technology and Training to preside over the revision and update of the circular guiding the implementation of electronic medical records (replacing Circular 46/2018/TT-BYT) in April 2025.

The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management is responsible for completing the list of clinical terminology and the list of paraclinical indicators to apply in electronic medical records. The Ministry of Health requires this task to be completed by April 2025.

The Ministry of Health also assigned the Department of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy Management to preside over the completion of a list of specialties and clinical terminology in the field of traditional medicine and pharmacy to apply in electronic medical records, to be completed by April 2025.

Regarding financial resources, the Ministry of Health said that it will structure the cost of applying information technology into the price of medical examination and treatment services. The Ministry of Health assigned this task to the Department of Planning and Finance and requested that it be completed by June 2025.

The Ministry of Health will also develop technical and economic norms for medical imaging diagnostic services on the RIS-PACS system in April 2025.

The Ministry of Health requests the Department of Health of provinces and cities; health departments of ministries and branches; and hospitals nationwide to have plans to deploy electronic medical records at their units and ensure the completion of the deployment of electronic medical records at all hospitals nationwide, no later than September 2025.

The Ministry of Health's plan to deploy electronic medical records nationwide will be very important to speed up the process at hospitals and medical facilities.

According to the roadmap of Circular No. 46 regulating EMR records, by the end of 2023, 135 grade 1 hospitals must successfully implement electronic medical records and encourage other medical facilities to implement electronic medical records.

But by the end of 2024, only 94 medical facilities nationwide have announced that they have implemented electronic medical records, not using paper medical records, including 32 grade 1 hospitals; 44 grade 2 hospitals; 4 clinics and 14 private hospitals. Thus, the implementation rate has only reached 23.7% (32/135) of the target.

According to the latest information, by April 2025, 144 hospitals nationwide have deployed electronic medical records. Many hospitals save tens of billions to 100 billion VND/year by eliminating paper medical records, not printing films, not printing test papers...

Source: https://cand.com.vn/y-te/thang-9-2025-cac-benh-vien-phai-hoan-thanh-benh-an-dien-tu--i764219/