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Thailand is about to get a new online medical system called Home Medical, allowing people to communicate and interact with doctors from their own homes, thanks to a cooperative project involving five government ministries.
The manager of Ramathibodi Hospital's Cardiovascular and Metabolic Centre, Khanat Kruthkul, said the hospital was studying the provision of a pilot home-healthcare project that would allow elderly and disabled patients to consult doctors from their homes via an online network.
The pilot will be launched this year, with an initial focus on Ramathibodi's elderly and disabled patients.
In a first stage, not only will elderly and disabled patients be able to access and communicate with doctors, but the doctors will also be able to monitor patients' conditions and ask them to describe symptoms from their homes.
The project is covered by a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the ministries of public health, information and communications technology, education, industry, and science and technology.
Moreover, the cooperative project created by the memorandum aims to develop healthcare-information standards and apply them to healthcare information and patient files handled within the Thailand e-Government Interoperability Framework. This will enable government hospitals to update patient databases and access patient data via the online network, providing for safe referral of patients among hospitals, management of emergencies, and support for the teleconsultant system.
"I think the pilot project will help to reduce the complexity of patient information among hospitals, which will lead to reduced time needed when consulting a doctor," Khanat said.
A consultant to the Thailand e-Government Interoperability Framework, Somnuk Kirito, said cooperation between the five ministries had created an interoperable healthcare-information standard which now allowed 350 hospitals around the country to communicate and transfer patient data. This allows the hospitals to access information and data in 35 categories of patient healthcare-information files.
Information and Communications Technology Ministry permanent secretary Jirawan Boonperm said the project was part of government services that would create Smart Thailand and support the ICT Master Plan for the years up to 2020.
The cooperative project is a pilot for integration of assistance between government agencies that will help to achieve universal access to information and knowledge and improve the quality of life of Thai people.
"I think the project will offer standardisation for connecting and transferring information among government agencies, and this will enable access to information in real time, reduce time, reduce complexity of information and create efficiency among government agencies," she said.
Jirawan said the ICT ministry would expand the cooperative project and work with other government agencies, such as the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry, to standardise information to support e-government services.
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said cooperation between the ministries would drive standardisation of government information, enabling different agencies to transfer and access information over the online network. As this will include healthcare information, it will help to improve the quality of life. The use of technology will also create easy access to healthcare services and this, in turn, will develop Thailand's competitiveness, he said
(THE NATION)
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