First-grade hospitals in the country are undertaking many activities for standardisation and quality control of medical laboratories to be able to share medical test results with each other (Illustrative photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - First-grade hospitals in the country areundertaking many activities for standardisation and quality control of medicallaboratories to be able to share medical test results with each other.
Hospitals are classified into grades based on their scale, labour structure andstaff capabilities, treatment quality, facilities, and equipment.
Under a Ministry of Health roadmap, first-grade hospitals willjoin central-level facilities at the end of next month insharing medical test results to reduce expenses for patients, who areoften required to redo all the tests when they switch hospitals.
In July last year, all 38 central-level hospitals began to share the resultsamong themselves.
By 2020 province-level hospitals will start doing so, and by 2025 it willbecome universal.
Dr Nguyen Trong Thien, director of Da Nang C Hospital, a first-grade facility,said his hospital had been working on its laboratory quality since 2014.
“The hospital has collaborated with the central region-based Centre forStandarisation and Quality Control of Medical Laboratories to improve thequality of its tests. It is ready to share its medical test results with otherhospitals.”
Dr Le Hoang Oanh, deputy director of the blood transfusion centre at HCM City’sCho Ray Hospital, said labs also must get an external quality assessment toensure the reliability of their medical test results and that they have thesame quality as other hospitals in the country and abroad.
His centre had collaborated with the National Institute of Haematology andBlood Transfusion, HCM Haematology and Blood Transfusion Hospital and theQuality Control Center for Medical Laboratory to set up a protocol for externalassessment, he said.
"It is based on World Health Organisation guidelines," he added.
Speaking at a review conference on sharing medical test results held at the HCMCity University of Medicine and Pharmacy on November 26, Deputy Minister ofHealth Nguyen Truong Son said his ministry had instructed medicallaboratory standarisation centres around the country to quickly establishassessment standards and criteria for labs.
Hospital labs which share medical test results must acquire ISO 15189certification, he said.
The ministry had also ordered the centres to strengthen training to improve andstandardise the capacity of lab technicians in the country.
From this year the quality of labs is one of criteria to assess the quality ofhospitals, according to the ministry.
The country’s 1,336 hospitals did more than 528 million tests last year, halfat province-level hospitals and 22 percent at central-level ones.
“If hospitals share their test results, the number of tests will reducesufficiently, helping save time and money of patients,” Son said. “This willalso ease the crowding [at hospitals].”
Dr Vu Quang Huy, director of the Quality Control Centre for MedicalLaboratories under HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, said hiscentre had trained hundreds of lab workers since 2014 and monitored the qualityof health facilities in the southern, central and Central Highlands regions.-VNS/VNA
Hospitals are classified into grades based on their scale, labour structure andstaff capabilities, treatment quality, facilities, and equipment.
Under a Ministry of Health roadmap, first-grade hospitals willjoin central-level facilities at the end of next month insharing medical test results to reduce expenses for patients, who areoften required to redo all the tests when they switch hospitals.
In July last year, all 38 central-level hospitals began to share the resultsamong themselves.
By 2020 province-level hospitals will start doing so, and by 2025 it willbecome universal.
Dr Nguyen Trong Thien, director of Da Nang C Hospital, a first-grade facility,said his hospital had been working on its laboratory quality since 2014.
“The hospital has collaborated with the central region-based Centre forStandarisation and Quality Control of Medical Laboratories to improve thequality of its tests. It is ready to share its medical test results with otherhospitals.”
Dr Le Hoang Oanh, deputy director of the blood transfusion centre at HCM City’sCho Ray Hospital, said labs also must get an external quality assessment toensure the reliability of their medical test results and that they have thesame quality as other hospitals in the country and abroad.
His centre had collaborated with the National Institute of Haematology andBlood Transfusion, HCM Haematology and Blood Transfusion Hospital and theQuality Control Center for Medical Laboratory to set up a protocol for externalassessment, he said.
"It is based on World Health Organisation guidelines," he added.
Speaking at a review conference on sharing medical test results held at the HCMCity University of Medicine and Pharmacy on November 26, Deputy Minister ofHealth Nguyen Truong Son said his ministry had instructed medicallaboratory standarisation centres around the country to quickly establishassessment standards and criteria for labs.
Hospital labs which share medical test results must acquire ISO 15189certification, he said.
The ministry had also ordered the centres to strengthen training to improve andstandardise the capacity of lab technicians in the country.
From this year the quality of labs is one of criteria to assess the quality ofhospitals, according to the ministry.
The country’s 1,336 hospitals did more than 528 million tests last year, halfat province-level hospitals and 22 percent at central-level ones.
“If hospitals share their test results, the number of tests will reducesufficiently, helping save time and money of patients,” Son said. “This willalso ease the crowding [at hospitals].”
Dr Vu Quang Huy, director of the Quality Control Centre for MedicalLaboratories under HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, said hiscentre had trained hundreds of lab workers since 2014 and monitored the qualityof health facilities in the southern, central and Central Highlands regions.-VNS/VNA
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