Vietnam as an economy has been growing rapidly since the past few years and because of this foreign investment in the country has increased manifold since 2001. Today, Ho Chi Minh City is a major hub of global IT organizations and is one of the fastest growing offshore development centers in the region. This increased focus on international investment has led to an influx of expats and a rapidly increasing middle class which demands better education, better housing, and better healthcare. While education and housing have increased over the past few years, the much government controlled healthcare is finding it hard to keep up with the growing demand. The result of which is overcrowded hospitals, bad service at labs, and a low per capita availability of healthcare for the people. To solve the problem of low availability, the private healthcare has jumped in to solve the problem and cater to the growing population in the cities who have money to spend.
Today, bustling cities such as Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi have become centers of growth for the private healthcare sector with private clinics, hospitals and testing labs coming up in major areas of the cities. Even with the high amount of investment coming in the country, the scope for improvement is still huge. Vietnamese hospitals and labs cater to less number of patients per hour in comparison to their counterparts in neighboring countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The reason behind this is lack of dependence on technology at healthcare centers.
The country’s hospitals, clinics, and labs are still dependent on manual processes to complete tasks at hand which is leading to unnecessary delays, long waiting lines at healthcare centers, and errors in reporting. The need of the hour is to rely on technology such as Hospital Information Management Systems and Laboratory Information Management Systems.
With clinics and labs now mushrooming areas in the cities, the private sector and the government funded hospitals are slowly but steadily moving towards implementing modern LIMS and HIMS to solve their problems and benefit from the better technology.
Some of the benefits of a modern day software for hospital and laboratory management include:
- Faster Processing
- Smooth Scheduling
- Historical Data Management
- Error Free Reporting
- Better Coordination
- Efficient Resource Utilization
- Improved Staff Performance
- Faster Turnaround Time
A modern software system for healthcare facilities can go a long way in solving many of the problems that are facing the country.
Did you know CareData solutions for healthcare have Vietnam specific solutions catering to the local needs? In fact, CareData is much loved in the country and are widely implemented in clinics, pathology labs et al. To know more about CareData in Vietnam, Schedule a Demo here.