Medical alliance HM Group has launched in the central city of Da Nang with the aim of serving 500,000 patients by 2020 and boosting information technology and human resources for hospitals and clinics.
Patients wait to see doctors at a hospital in Da Nang. (Photo: VNA)
Da Nang (VNS/VNA) - Medical alliance HM Group has launched in the central city of DaNang with the aim of serving 500,000 patients by 2020 and boostinginformation technology and human resources for hospitals and clinics.
The alliance wasestablished by Homecares, iKure, AT Group, Innotek and Job Links, toimprove the quality and effectiveness of medical services, research anddevelopment and education.
It will focus on connectingpatients with the right doctors through apps that can be accessed in remoteareas.
According to Bui Thi HuongGiang, founder of AT Group, the alliance was set up to offer various healthcarepackages to four main groups: hospitals, physicians, clinics and patients.
She said that jointmedical services and remote healthcare check-ups and treatment technologieswill help doctors see more patients per day, thus increasing the capacity andquality of medical check-ups and treatment.
Patients will not need tovisit hospitals to see doctors and can instead have an easy way to connect withmedical centres near their homes.
The introduction of themedical alliance should also help reduce overloading at public hospitals.
Nguyen Thi Van Anh, CEO andfounder of Homecare Da Nang, said the alliance would help ease the stressplaced on doctors because they would be able to contact their patients usingthe new technology. Mobile health workers would support doctors to take bloodsamples or medical waste from patient’s homes for testing in laboratories.
Da Nang has 11 hospitalswith 1,000 doctors, and more than 620 consulting rooms and medical carecentres.
The city plans to easeoverloading in its hospitals by 2025 when doctors will only be allowed toexamine 25 patients each day.
At least 70 percent ofinpatients in Da Nang’s hospital system are from neighbouring provinces andcities in the central and Central Highland regions.-VNS/VNA
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Patients wait to see doctors at a hospital in Da Nang. (Photo: VNA) 
