The electronic health record may serve as a substitute for relevant documentation in medical examination and treatment commencing on July 1, 2025

1. Utilizing Health Data for the Implementation of Electronic Health Records:

Pursuant to Clause 5, Article 10 of Decree 102/2025/ND-CP, effective from July 1, 2025, health data concerning disease prevention, medical examination and treatment, healthcare, and related information shall be utilized for the implementation of electronic health records. Specifically:

– Legally operating healthcare facilities within Vietnam shall have the responsibility to connect, share, and interoperate relevant health data with the electronic health record integrated into the national identification application.

– The personal identification number of Vietnamese citizens and foreign nationals who have been issued an electronic identification account in accordance with the legal regulations on citizen identification shall be used as the individual’s medical identification code.

– Legally operating healthcare facilities, in accordance with the provisions of law, and Vietnamese citizens or foreign nationals who have been issued an electronic identification account shall be entitled to use the electronic health record integrated into the national identification application as a substitute for relevant documents during the process of disease prevention, medical examination and treatment, and healthcare, in accordance with regulations.

2. Subjects Exploiting and Using Health Data

– The Communist Party of Vietnam’s agencies, State agencies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, and political and socio-political organizations may exploit and use health data in accordance with their respective functions and duties.

– Data subjects may exploit and use health data pertaining to themselves.

– Organizations and individuals not governed by points a and b of this clause may exploit and use health data as follows: freely exploit and use open health data; exploit and use personal data with the consent of the data managing and maintaining entity and the individual who is the data subject being exploited; exploit and use other data with the consent of the data managing and maintaining entity.

3. Master data within the National Health Database shall have official legal validity equivalent to paper documents provided by competent authorities; Master data within the health databases of ministries, sectors, and localities shall have official legal validity equivalent to paper documents provided by such ministries, sectors and localities.