How to carry out telehealth and telehealth support in Vietnam? What are mobile healthcare services in Vietnam?
How to carry out telehealth and telehealth support in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 80 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam on telehealth and telehealth support as follows:
Telehealth and telehealth support
1. Telehealth occurring between medical practitioners and patients shall be carried out as follows:
a) It shall depend on the scope of practice of the medical practitioner; the remote treatment shall be delivered according to the nomenclature of diseases or medical conditions sanctioned by the Minister of Health;
b) Medical practitioners shall be liable for their clinical diagnosis results, prescription for therapies or remedies and medications.
2. Telehealth support occurring between medical establishments shall be carried out as follows:
a) Medical practitioners directly in charge of patient cases at the supported medical establishments shall be responsible for their medical examination and treatment results;
b) The supported medical establishments must pay costs of telehealth support to the supporting ones at the prices agreed upon between them.
3. The Government shall impose detailed regulations on telehealth and telehealth support.
Thus, the telehealth occurring between medical practitioners and patients shall be carried out as follows:
- It shall depend on the scope of practice of the medical practitioner; the remote treatment shall be delivered according to the nomenclature of diseases or medical conditions sanctioned by the Minister of Health;
- Medical practitioners shall be liable for their clinical diagnosis results, prescription for therapies or remedies and medications.
How to carry out telehealth and telehealth support in Vietnam? What are mobile healthcare services in Vietnam?
What are mobile healthcare services in Vietnam?
According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 79 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam, mobile healthcare services shall include the following:
- Mobile or outreach health activities taking place at venues other than the official address specified in the operating license of the medical establishment organizing these activities;
- Home or workplace healthcare services
- Humanitarian outreach healthcare campaigns organized at intervals.
In addition, the conditions for provision of mobile healthcare services shall be as follows:
- The mobile health care activities and services specified in point a and b of clause 1 Article 79 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam must be provided by a medical establishment with a sufficient number of medical practitioners, equipment, facilities and other suitable conditions corresponding to the scale and scope of mobile health services, except for home healthcare services performed by local village or community health workers and midwives;
- The mobile health care activities and services specified in point c of clause 1 Article 79 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam must conform to the conditions set out in clause 2 Article 88 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam;
- The mobile healthcare services and activities specified in point a and c of clause 1 Article 79 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam can commence with the consent of a health agency under the People's Committee of the province where they are planned to take place, except as medical establishments under the People’s armed forces render these services and activities to patients under these armed forces’ authority.
In what cases is medical treatment required by law?
Pursuant to Article 82 of the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam as follows:
Involuntary treatment
1. Patient cases subject to the involuntary treatment requirements in accordance with this Law shall be defined as follows:
a) Persons suffering from group-A infectious diseases that are defined in laws on prevention and control of infectious diseases;
b) Persons with depression susceptible to suicidal thoughts and behaviors; persons with mental illness in an agitated state that is likely to harm himself or with behaviors harming other persons, or destroying property;
c) Others defined by law.
2. The Government shall regulate involuntary treatment measures applied to those defined in clause 1 of this Article.
Thus, patient cases subject to the involuntary treatment requirements in accordance with the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam shall be defined as follows:
- Persons suffering from group-A infectious diseases that are defined in laws on prevention and control of infectious diseases;
- Persons with depression susceptible to suicidal thoughts and behaviors; persons with mental illness in an agitated state that is likely to harm himself or with behaviors harming other persons, or destroying property;
- Others defined by law.
The 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in Vietnam takes effect from January 1, 2024.
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