VHO – Information portal for public health

Sent into the final round and highly appreciated by the jury, but the “Community Health” Information Portal (www.vho.vn) also faces many difficulties and challenges as the only product in the Medical field Dan Tri had a conversation with Mr. Nguyen Nhat Nguyen, VHO Team Leader, to learn about the benefits this product brings to the community as well as the difficulties that team members have to overcome. p>

Sir, where did the VHO team come up with the idea to create this product?

When I was still young Working at the Health & Life newspaper, many readers called the editorial office to ask for information about doctors and wanted advice on where to get treatment. This made me very confused when I couldn’t figure it out myself Clearly understand the information readers need. From there, I had the idea to retain information about health – an issue that is always topical. And in 2001, I started digitizing health information collected from specialized newspapers. The “Community Health” information portal was born from those concerns.
 
Icon of the “Community Health” Information Portal

What is the biggest goal of the VHO team when making this product? What has the group done to realize that goal?

We want the community to have the fastest, most accurate medical information in the simplest and cheapest way. the most expensive.

In addition to building a huge database with more than 10,000 articles and a variety of other information, we also act as a bridge between medical and pharmaceutical businesses and the people. so that everyone can know about rich and quality products.

More importantly, we can also fulfill our role as a bridge between ministries and departments working together for health. community. In addition, all means of communication, from the simplest to the most modern, are applied to provide people in all regions of the country with reliable medical information.

It is known that the team has been building the archive of this product for nearly ten years, so what were the biggest difficulties during the construction process?< /p>

Our biggest difficulty was when we first started creating the archive. At that time, our technology was still very outdated. Digitizing any article or research would take a lot of time. In addition, because of the safety of information, at first it was very difficult for us to find support from the authorities in licensing distribution on the internet.
 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visits the product introduction booth at WITFOR 2009.

Is the above archive enough to meet the needs of all people? Is this the biggest advantage to compete with other existing products of the same type?

Nothing is enough. The sea of ​​knowledge is boundless even though this is only in the medical field. This database is our advantage. However, Vietnam’s population is not uniform, so we focus on providing information by region, depending on different levels of education, to provide the most appropriate advice.

< span style="FONT-STYLE:italic">As a medical product, safety is always top priority. So what is the safety of this product?

All of this information is provided by the Information and Public Relations Center (part of VNPT Group) and Health & Life Newspaper. sponsored living. Next, it will be evaluated by the Ministry of Health.

This product also participated in the 2008 Vietnam Talent Contest for the second time. 2 What are the notable improvements in the product?

We have changed the entire technology in the process of perfecting the product. But the most special thing is that the product has been officially licensed by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

What does the VHO team hope for most when attending the Human Resources Awards? Tai Dat Viet?

Our group’s biggest hope is to be known and accepted by the community to support the product. This is not outside the goal of providing people with medical information in the fastest, most accurate, simplest and least expensive way.

Thank you for this exchange! Good luck to the VHO team in the final round!

6 outstanding advantages of the “Power” Portal public health”:
1. Helps people find information about diseases, drugs, and the fastest medical examination and treatment addresses right on one website.
2. The interconnectedness and science of the medicine content is rich and intuitive according to the international standard ICD-10 of WHO (World Health Organization) expressed in many languages ​​​​such as English, French, Vietnamese… (cross-link between Articles related to diseases and Eastern medicine and Western medicine)
3. Provide information in vivid visual multimedia form from official sources.
4. Presenting topics in PDF files and Video files according to each disease name makes it easy for everyone to view, download, print and propagate to each other.
5. The disease name keyword system is defined and understands disease names in different languages ​​in each locality.
6. Provides addresses, phone numbers, clinics, pharmacies, hospitals, health centers, etc. by specific region and details for each district of 63 provinces and cities. This helps people who have an emergency illness and need health advice to immediately call the nearest address for direct advice.

 
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