Remote Treatment Vietnam – Mobile Apps

On June 22, the MoH approved the project on remote medical examination and treatment during 2020-2025, aiming at facilitating citizens in the medical examination and treatment from communal to central levels. The people have access to high-quality health services right at the lower level health facilities, while such facilities receive regular and extraordinary professional support from the higher-level hospitals based on IT application, contributing to effective epidemic prevention and control, easing overcrowding at higher-level hospitals, and improving the quality and effectiveness of medical examinations and treatments.

Vietnam has been facing the 4th COVID heatwave, it is the time when remote medical care shows its own effectiveness in reality. We Do Pulse, Edoctor, Teledoc, Jio Health, iSofHcare, ICNM, MyDoc, Doctor Anywhere … are some actively mobile apps happening popular in Vietnam.

Est. 2015 in Singapore, Doctor Anywhere (DA) soon firmed the vision across Asia. Choosing to step a foot in Vietnam in 2019, DA showed outstanding UI/UX as well as flexibility via the Online – Offline model which still rarely appeared in Vietnam’s remote medical care. According to Doctor Anywhere latest interview with Nhipcaudautu in mid-Aug 2021, the bookings via mobile app increasing x5 times since the pandemic starting and they have expanded the network with over 100 hospitals/ clinical partners & 80 drugstores due to the surge in demand.

Introduced in June 2017, pointing Ho Chi Minh city – “the manufacturing hub” and “an attractive business hub” of Vietnam suited their first step-on-the-ground. Today, Jio Health operates an online healthcare app and a physical facility; it also has licenses for prescriptions and over-the-counter drug sales. Within 2 years of operation in Vietnam, Jio Health announced that it has closed a $5 million Series A funding from Southeast Asia’s Monk’s Hill Ventures . Raghu Rai – the CEO and founder of Jio Health said the company plans to use the capital for expansion.

The online healthcare service in Vietnam has great potential to develop and clearly, there have been some draft announcements on remote medical care distribution from Vietnam MOH. According to Jio Health research, Vietnam’s annual out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure is about $5 billion and accounts for nearly 40 percent of the total. The country’s population also has a very high rate of smartphone usage at over 50 percent, an overcrowded and unreliable healthcare system, and the fastest-growing middle class in Southeast Asia, all of which are in the company’s favor.

Fingers crossed to all.

Phuong.