Current legal framework
This public registry lists 364 legal references, mirroring all 364 concepts in VNLegalDocumentRefCS: 273 in force, 47 in force as amended (read in consolidated form), 3 future-effective, 0 transition-stage, and 41 superseded but kept for reference. It provides 357 exact source links; 7 entries without an exact document page are explicitly documented and remain under review. Filter by domain or status, or search by code/title. The "Impact on VN Core" column links straight to the affected profile or CodeSystem.
Last reviewed: 2026-09-20 Regulation codes are kept in Vietnamese (TT, QĐ, NĐ, Luật) for legal precision
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Mapping catalogue for the DRG payment pilot, separate from Decision 4440/QĐ-BYT. Its 2020 ICD-9-CM target table was replaced by Decision 387/QĐ-BYT. Current status of the mapping decision is not fully verified; see the registry evidence limitations.
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Historical basis for two-digit province, three-digit district and five-digit commune codes. Decision 19/2025/QĐ-TTg ended this decision on 1 July 2025. Presence in an observed catalogue does not establish each unit's legal validity period.
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Five health classes I–V are defined in the embedded appendix of the signed document. Current status is not fully verified; the expired Circular 14/2013/TT-BYT is not evidence of this decision remaining in force. See the registry evidence note.
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The catalogue recommends LOINC and HL7 CDA/CCD, and requires HL7 v2.x/3.0 messages and DICOM within its scope. It does not mandate FHIR R4. Current status is not fully verified; see the registry evidence limitations.
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Current basis for birth registration and the birth-certificate identifier system through 28 Feb 2027. Article 29 of Law 03/2026 provides that this law ceases to apply on 1 Mar 2027; that replacement is pending and must not be activated early in VN Core.
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Future law on digitised, interoperable civil registration; electronic civil-status records have paper-equivalent value and birth data becomes the original personal-data source. It replaces Law 60/2014 only from 1 Mar 2027 and must not yet activate current constraints.
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Exit-entry documents (passports). Legal basis of the passport identifier system; read as amended by Law 23/2023/QH15.
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Drug recall procedures (voluntary/mandatory), violation grading, handling of recalled drugs. Candidate basis for a future medication-recall flow — no artifact wired yet.
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Ministry of Health digital architecture pivots to shared data, data warehouses and secure integration.
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Prioritises data, CCCD identity, EMR/HSSK, citizen-facing apps and governed integration.
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The plan sets objectives and 36 priority tasks across policy, infrastructure, data and digital-health applications. The extract comes from a verified derivative of the digitally signed PDF supplied by the project owner on 14 Sep 2026; the derivative removes only the text watermark and preserves the document content. No exact document page is yet available on the Government Legal Document Portal, Official Gazette or Thu Vien Phap Luat.
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National health database governance: Patient/Practitioner/Encounter/Composition. Defines responsibilities, scope, interoperability and open-data rules.
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Mandates inter-database data connection and sharing. Remaining systems must complete standardisation and converge on the Data Sharing and Orchestration Platform by 31 Dec 2026.
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Central Party resolution on government streamlining — political foundation for NQ 202/2025/QH15 (administrative restructuring) and Law 72/2025 (2-tier government).
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Framework law on BHYT — amended by Law 51/2024. Legal root for the entire chain NĐ 188/2025/NĐ-CP, NĐ 233/2025/NĐ-CP, TT 12/2026/TT-BTC.
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Amends Law 25/2008 — basis for NĐ 188/2025/NĐ-CP and the new BHYT payment rules (benefit levels, cross-tier, multi-card).
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Article 2(1)(a) extends 100% BHYT coverage to near-poor households and people aged 75 or older receiving social retirement allowance. MoH Official Letter 38 confirms the operational CN/LH mapping to benefit code 2 from 1 Jan 2026; participant category does not itself determine adjudication.
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Assigns ministries and deadlines for implementing the special mechanisms of Resolution 261/2025/QH15. Issues no codes and adds no new data or electronic-record requirement.
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Framework for medicines, e-prescription, market authorisation — basis for NĐ 163/2025/NĐ-CP, TT 26/2025/TT-BYT (outpatient prescription), TT 27/2025/TT-BYT (traditional medicine).
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National AI law — classifies AI by 3 risk tiers (high/medium/low). Healthcare AI MAY fall under the high-risk tier depending on purpose, impact and the statutory classification criteria (Art. 9) — providers self-classify per system; the law requires transparency, accountability and human-centric design.
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Defines the functions, tasks and organisational structure of the Ministry of Health after the 2025 government restructuring — authority basis for all MoH documents. Replaced by Decree 313/2026/NĐ-CP from 18 Aug 2026.
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Health standards and examinations for road drivers and specialised machinery operators, plus the driver health database. A legal dependency of Circular 42/2025/TT-BYT, whose Article 3(2) imports the data-update duty from Article 5 here. Not a basis for railway fitness standards.
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Replaces Decree 42/2025/NĐ-CP. The 19-unit structure retains the National Health Information Centre (issuer of Decision 232/QĐ-TTYQG and Official Letter 365/TTYQG-GPQLCL) and the Department of Medical Infrastructure and Equipment (issuer of device registration numbers) — two agency names the IG cites.
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Decentralises healthcare administration between central — provincial — commune levels after district tier elimination. Affects Organization.partOf and management scope.
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Detailed rules for contractor selection — basis for TT 57/2025/TT-BYT (medical-device grouping for procurement).
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Administrative penalty framework — provides legal basis for Claim/EOB invariants and required IG rules.
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Specifies the national database catalogue, including healthcare DB — basis for Organization metadata and national data interoperability.
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Restructuring into 34 provinces changes addresses and predecessor relationships. Resolution 203/2025/QH15 separately ends district-level activity from 1 July 2025.
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Article 1(4) establishes two administrative levels; Article 2(2) ends district activity nationwide from 1 July 2025. It does not issue district codes; VN Core retains old codes for historical records.
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Operationalises NQ 202/2025/QH15 with the official 34-province + 3,321-commune codeset — basis for all address validation.
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Article 12(1) defines the personal identification number as a 12-digit natural-number sequence established by the National Population Database. It directly supports citizen-ID identifiers in Patient, but does not by itself require every Patient record to carry one.
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Foundation for the citizen ID concept and validation rules tied to it.
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Framework law for modern healthcare — basis for TT 13/2025/TT-BYT (EMR), TT 32/2023/TT-BYT (scope of practice), Decree 96/2023 (implementation). Amended by the Planning Law 112/2025 (Article 55) and the Population Law 113/2025 (Article 35) — read via consolidation 26/VBHN-VPQH.
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Implements Law 15/2023 — practitioner licensing, facility registration, RelatedPerson workflow.
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Defines scope by specialty, practitioner licensing and CCHN code — basis for Practitioner.qualification.code.
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Four-tier ranking criteria for healthcare facilities (special, I, II, III, IV) — affects BHYT tier and Organization.type.
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Legal framework for data messages, paper-to-electronic conversion and electronic transactions. Article 44(2) of the Data Law amends Article 42(4)(a) and repeals Article 3(8) and Article 41; read the consolidated text. It does not prescribe a FHIR Signature format or certificate policy.
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General framework for building, protecting, governing, processing and using digital data; parent law for Decrees 102/2025 and 278/2025. It does not replace Personal Data Protection Law 91/2025 or directly prescribe FHIR cardinalities.
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Limited to electronic transactions by state agencies and supporting information systems. It is not the general digital-signature decree for every hospital; Decree 23/2025 is the general branch and Decree 68/2024 covers government-specialised signatures.
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EMR becomes the primary deployment driver, requiring standardised records, documents and data provenance.
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NHIC guidance: EMR software technical requirements + an 11-group data-exchange dictionary (XML/JSON) — recommended practice, not yet a mandatory standard; the future direction is HL7 FHIR R4 per Decision 2146/QĐ-BYT.
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Integrates digital health record into the VNeID app — 46 field groups created and digitally signed by care facilities. VN Core uses VNeID at the citizen-app layer; primary patient identifier remains CCCD.
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Five-character facility code (2-digit province + 3-digit sequence; 97/98 for MoD/MoPS) — assigned by provincial health departments; identity base for BHYT assessment and the VNeID health book.
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VSS assessment process (data-based, document-based, direct payment) — the receiving-side business document of the BHYT assessment gateway; read with Circular 12/2026/TT-BTC.
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Electronic BHYT card/social-insurance book integrated into VNeID level 2 and VssID — replaces paper when seeking care; guides Decree 164/2025/NĐ-CP.
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Seven-step interoperability process via the health-insurance assessment gateway; VSS displays data on VNeID within 24 hours; e-referral letters and follow-up slips are legally equivalent to paper.
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100% of healthcare facilities must complete EMR by 31 Dec 2026; hospitals stop paper records from 01 Jan 2027.
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Formally establishes 2-tier model: province/city + commune/ward/special-zone. Eliminates district tier. Distinguishes 3 commune types: xa (rural), phuong (urban), dac-khu (island).
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Publishes the data structure of the VNeID digital health record — standardises item-level data for HSSK aligned with CCCD.
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Detailed guidance for EMR deployment at healthcare facilities — complements QĐ 586/QĐ-BYT at the operational plan level.
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General legal basis for electronic signatures and trust services, excluding specialised official-duty digital signatures. A FHIR Signature, JWS/JWT, or SMART Health Card is only a technical carrier and does not by itself establish legal validity under the Decree.
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Government-specialised digital-signature branch for state bodies and public service units, including public healthcare facilities when this branch is used. Decree 23/2025 is the general branch; Decree 137/2024 adds state transaction-system context only.
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Health data is classified as sensitive personal data; data-subject rights must be reflected in policy and access UX.
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Clarifies DPIA, DPO, 72-hour breach notification, and cross-border data transfer assessment obligations.
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Fully replaced by Decree 356/2025. Kept for historical reference only.
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Replaces Law 24/2018 from 01 Jul 2026. The national legal database names Law 143/2025 as the source of an amendment relation but leaves the affected part blank; article review has not identified a direct change to VN Core cybersecurity duties. Scope requires legal review.
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Catalogued only to explain the amended status attached to Law 116/2025/QH15. Article 50(2) amends the Corporate Income Tax Law; no direct amendment to VN Core cybersecurity duties has been identified, so this is not a direct profile basis.
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Requires data residency in Vietnam, data provision to authorities, and protection of critical information systems. Replaced by Cybersecurity Law 116/2025/QH15 from 01 Jul 2026.
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Original XML schema for BHYT data exchange between healthcare facilities and Vietnam Social Security. QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT is the direct successor; QĐ 4750/QĐ-BYT and QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT are later amendments in the QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT chain. XML 4210 is retained for bridge/provenance only, not as the new design baseline.
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Current technical layer in the QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT → QĐ 4750/QĐ-BYT → QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT chain, read together with QĐ 1931/QĐ-BYT (amending MUC_HUONG and SO_DANG_KY). No link in this chain is treated as fully replacing QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT or QĐ 4750/QĐ-BYT.
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Basis for Social Security electronic transactions and connection points for data lookup/exchange with the payer.
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BHYT reimbursement rules and benefit levels are reflected in the payer-side package without distorting the FHIR core semantics.
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Amends Decree 70/2015 on BHYT for military, public security, cipher personnel and standing militia. Decree 188/2025/NĐ-CP repeals only Clause 5 Article 4 of Decree 74, not the whole decree.
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Replaces QĐ 6556/QĐ-BYT from the signing date; the software transition window ended on 01 Jul 2026 — only the QĐ 697/QĐ-BYT template is used since then. 12 cost groups, 13 columns, supports multi-BHYT.
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QĐ 697/QĐ-BYT replaces this form; the transitional-use window ended on 01 Jul 2026. Retained only as a legacy basis for records created before that date.
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Defines discharge papers, social-insurance sick-leave certificates and medical record summaries — the form templates that QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT maps in Tables 7, 8 and 11.
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Updates form templates and treatment-method wording rules (medical, surgical, radiotherapy, chemotherapy...) — basis for the PP_DIEUTRI field in XML1/7/8/11 tables per QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT.
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In force as amended (settled 23 Jul 2026) — read consolidated with Circulars 35/2021, 08/2024 and 01/2025; watch for the new implementing circular under Decree 188/2025.
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Regulates immunization activities, replacing the previous immunization circulars (24/2018, 34/2018, 05/2020, 52/2025); Article 3 fixes the 14-disease mandatory list — adding HPV, pneumococcal and rotavirus to the EPI. Extends the legal basis of the vaccine-type code system.
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10 chapters, 97 articles implementing Law 114/2025/QH15: immunization, post-vaccination injury compensation (30× base salary; VND 100 million for death), free periodic health checkups, school health.
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70 prenatal (Annex I) + 33 newborn (Annex II) screening diseases under Population Law 113/2025/QH15 — a screening ValueSet candidate for the 0.8.0 cycle, paired with Circular 11/2026/TT-BYT.
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Implements Law 113/2025/QH15: conditions and procedures for second-child maternity leave and childbirth financial support. Context for social-insurance maternity documents (XML10/XML11).
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Replaces Circular 31/2018/TT-BYT; free-medicine programmes run under agreements between pharmaceutical businesses and healthcare facilities. Context for non-BHYT medication payment sources (NGUON_CTRA).
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Raises the base salary from VND 2.34M to 2.53M/month — the parameter behind the 45-month BHYT payment ceiling (T_TRANTT per Decree 188/2025/NĐ-CP) and vaccination-injury compensation. The IG references the multiplier only, never hard-coded amounts.
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From 01 Jul 2026 devolution applies ONLY to the enumerated scope, not across the board: Art. 2(3)(a) devolves the practice-licence procedures for the listed subjects/provisions, while Art. 2(4)(a) devolves only RE-ISSUE and ADJUSTMENT of private-hospital operating licences when working hours or name/address change without relocation. IG impact: the issuing-authority segment of the GPHN format (Decree 96/2023, Form 11) shifts toward province codes for the devolved groups. Business-condition cuts are expected from 01 Jul 2027.
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8 chapters, 48 articles — a unified legal framework for digital government, economy and society; requires digital systems to be consistent, interoperable and data-sharing, following the National Digital Architecture Framework and the National Data Architecture Framework (Article 13(4)). The current national framework is version 1.0 under Decision 1425/QĐ-TTg of 29 Jul 2026, which repealed Decision 3090/QĐ-BKHCN; the National Data Architecture Framework is issued under Decision 2439/QĐ-TTg. The interoperability axis, together with Decree 278/2025/NĐ-CP, that VN Core FHIR aligns with.
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Governs the financial mechanism for BHXH, BHTN and BHYT funds — revenue, expenditure and reserve provisions. Provides the financial basis for TT 12/2026/TT-BTC.
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Electronic audit workflow via gdbhyt.baohiemxahoi.gov.vn. 6 forms: 01/BH (monthly summary), 03/BH (audit report), 05/BH (outcome notice), 06/BH (settlement record). Digital signature required on all submissions.
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Root catalogue for BHYT-reimbursable devices — amended by TT 24/2025/TT-BYT (VTYT → TBYT renaming) and consolidated in VBHN 14/VBHN-BYT.
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9 BHYT device groups (N01-N09) — single authoritative source for the BHYT-reimbursable device catalogue.
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Principles and criteria for building the BHYT drug list and payment guidance — does NOT itself contain the drug list; voids Arts. 3–6 of Circular 20/2022 (Art. 20.4) while its list annex remains in force.
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Root decision for healthcare output data standards and formats; amended by QĐ 4750/QĐ-BYT and QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT. TT 12/2026/TT-BTC continues to cite this chain.
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Amends QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT; QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT further amends the chain and does not fully replace QĐ 4750/QĐ-BYT or QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT.
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27 subject categories for BHYT visits — basis for VNCoreCoverage.class and MA_DT codes in BHXH XML.
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Root document for shared code catalogue version 6. TT 12/2026/TT-BTC continues to cite QĐ 7603/QĐ-BYT as amended by QĐ 4905/QĐ-BYT, QĐ 5937/QĐ-BYT, QĐ 824/QĐ-BYT, QĐ 2010/QĐ-BYT and QĐ 3276/QĐ-BYT; QĐ 2010/QĐ-BYT is not treated as a full replacement.
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Fully replaces Decree 54/2017 from 01 Jul 2025 — basis for prescribing, dispensing and drug registration numbers.
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Replaced by Decree 163/2025.
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Electronic prescription has full legal validity, integrates with the National Prescription System; patients have up to 5 days to fill.
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Catalogue of herbal/traditional medicines covered by BHYT — basis for the YHCT Medication package.
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TT 04/2017/TT-BYT + TT 24/2025/TT-BYT + VBHN 14/VBHN-BYT: 9 BHYT device groups (N01-N09); VTYT terminology changed to TBYT.
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Root regulatory framework for medical devices — risk classification A/B/C/D, market registration. Consolidated with all amendments in VBHN 08/VBHN-BYT.
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First amendment to Decree 98/2021 covering price disclosure and device procurement. Now consolidated in VBHN 08/VBHN-BYT.
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Second amendment to Decree 98/2021. Now consolidated with prior amendments in VBHN 08/VBHN-BYT.
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Replaces TT 43/2013/TT-BYT — governs VNCoreServiceRequest, Procedure and specialty classification.
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Replaced by TT 23/2024/TT-BYT; techniques approved before TT 23 took effect may continue until 30 Jun 2026 under the transition clause.
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Replaces 2007 Infectious Disease Prevention Law. New framework for the Expanded Immunisation Programme and disease surveillance.
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Consolidates NĐ 98/2021/NĐ-CP + NĐ 07/2023/NĐ-CP + NĐ 04/2025/NĐ-CP + NĐ 342/2025/NĐ-CP. Single authoritative source for all device citations (A/B/C/D risk class, registration, market approval, recall, IVD).
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Commune health station is a public health service unit under the commune People's Committee, with professional guidance from the Provincial Health Department. Has legal person status, own seal and bank account.
A consolidated text has no independent legal force. This snapshot combines Circulars 05/2022 and 59/2025; from 1 Jul 2026 Circular 59 expired and Circular 05 must be read with Circular 24/2026. Retain it only for pre-cutover provenance.
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TT 13/2025/TT-BYT takes effect on 21 Jul 2025, but its repeal clause says TT 46/2018/TT-BYT ceases from the TT 13/2025/TT-BYT issuance date. Use only for legacy EMR data.
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Remains in force, but Article 8 was amended by Circular 24/2026/TT-BYT from 1 Jul 2026 and must be read in consolidated form. VBHN 04/VBHN-BYT predates that change.
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Amends device quality calibration procedures — consolidated in VBHN 04/VBHN-BYT.
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Groups devices by technical/quality standards for procurement — based on NĐ 214/2025/NĐ-CP. A separate package, NOT merged with risk class A/B/C/D under NĐ 98/2021/NĐ-CP.
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Decentralises medical-device administrative procedures between MoH and Provincial Health Departments.
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Article 7(2)(a) of Circular 10/2026 makes this circular cease effect on 1 July 2026. Retained only for historical provenance; the national database in-force label observed during review is stale metadata.
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Article 7(2)(b) of Circular 10/2026 makes this circular cease effect on 1 July 2026. Retained only as provenance for the earlier delegation regime.
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Current basis for usage standards, norms and delegated authority for specialised healthcare equipment. Article 7(2) repeals Circulars 08/2019 and 46/2025; Article 5(5) bars use of these norms to reimburse an individual healthcare service.
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Must be read together with Decision 10/2026/QĐ-TTg; the amending decision does not replace Decision 15 in full.
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Amends selected provisions of Decision 15/2025/QĐ-TTg and is a required part of the legal chain implemented by Circular 10/2026.
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Telemedicine regulations — basis for telemedicine Encounter class and dedicated workflow.
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Basic hospital quality standards — complements TT 06/2024/TT-BYT (ranking) on the operational-quality dimension.
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National healthcare management information system framework — basis for interoperability and system CapabilityStatement. Article 13: effective 1 Jan 2027, not yet in force.
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Drug procurement procedures at public healthcare facilities — complements NĐ 214/2025/NĐ-CP for pharmaceuticals.
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Professional title standards for physicians — basis for Practitioner.qualification.code (MD, Specialist I/II, MSc, PhD).
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Health examination requirements for railway vehicle operators. Article 4 of Circular 25/2026 amends this instrument from 15 Aug 2026; Circular 42/2025 must now be read as amended.
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Amended by TT 53/2025/TT-BYT and consolidated in VBHN 06/VBHN-BYT.
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Only amends and supplements part of Circular 43/2025; it does not replace that instrument in full. The current text is consolidated in VBHN 06/VBHN-BYT.
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Amends TT 02/2024/TT-BYT — certification process for traditional healers and family-recipe holders. Affects YHCT Practitioner.
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Clinical trial legal framework — basis for future ResearchStudy/ResearchSubject profiles.
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Corrected 23 Jul 2026: this circular regulates CIGARETTES (tar/nicotine limits) — not pharmaceuticals; removed from Medication profile legal bases.
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Replaced by Circular 13/2026/TT-BYT on immunisation activities (14 mandatory vaccine-preventable diseases).
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Functional framework for public YHCT hospitals — basis for Organization.type for traditional medicine hospitals.
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Prescription procedure for traditional/herbal medicines — complements TT 26/2025/TT-BYT (outpatient pharmaceutical prescription).
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Occupational disease management framework — basis for occupational Condition and related workflows.
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List of BHYT-eligible occupational diseases — complements TT 56/2025/TT-BYT on the payment side.
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Area standards for healthcare buildings — Location/Organization metadata about physical infrastructure.
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Expanded Immunisation Programme plan 2026-2028 — basis for the Immunization profile and TCMR vaccine set.
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Catalogue of basic equipment for commune, ward, and special-zone health stations, replacing Circular 28/2020. It supports capability and equipment planning, not clinical terminology or A/B/C/D device risk classification.
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Catalogue of medium-risk herbal materials and traditional medicines under Ministry of Health oversight. It is product-regulatory context, not a clinical CodeSystem, medication catalogue, dose-form set, or route terminology.
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Catalogue of high- or medium-risk pharmaceuticals, herbal medicines, vaccines, biologicals, ingredients, and intermediates. It must not be used as a clinical medicine/vaccine code set or to legitimise project-local slugs.
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This temporary catalogue has been displaced annex by annex: Decision 3276 repealed Annex 5, and Decision 1804 repealed the department-code Annex 6 from 1 Aug 2026. Do not treat Decision 2010 as a wholly current code source.
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Day-time chemotherapy, radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy are inpatient treatment delivered during daytime working hours. The note to Annex 4 of Decision 2010/QĐ-BYT cites this circular for day-bed code K33.GBN.1. It issues no code system.
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Amends the rules on functions and organisation of rehabilitation facilities, including the definition of day-time inpatient rehabilitation. The note to Annex 4 of Decision 2010/QĐ-BYT cites this circular for codes K31.GBN.2 and K31.GBN.3. It issues no code system.
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Sets the indication, change of treatment form and delivery of day-time traditional medicine treatment and its medical records. The note to Annex 4 of Decision 2010/QĐ-BYT cites this circular for codes K16.GBN.2 and K16.GBN.3. It issues no code system.
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The 2020 Vietnamese ICD-10 edition, supplemented with U07.1/U07.2 by Decision 98 in 2022. From 1 Jul 2026, Circular 06/2026 and Decision 1849 are the current application basis; Decision 4469 remains only for legacy-edition provenance.
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SNOMED CT Vietnam terminology batch 1 — Body Structure (anatomical structures).
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SNOMED CT Vietnam terminology batch 2 — Morphologic Abnormality.
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SNOMED CT Vietnam terminology batch 3 — Allergy and Clinical Finding.
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Shared terminology for traditional medicine — Batch 1: clinical pattern, diagnosis, acupoints, techniques.
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Shared terminology for traditional medicine — Batch 2: symptoms, tongue, pulse, treatment principles, herbs, formulas. Appendix IV (treatment principles) has been replaced by Decision 2738/QĐ-BYT; the other five appendices remain in force.
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Shared terminology for traditional medicine — Batch 3: clinical patterns by disease name, pattern-specific signs, four-examination signs and treatment principles. Appendix IV replaces Appendix IV of Decision 3080/QĐ-BYT.
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Deployment plan for the Ministry of Health reporting information system: collecting, entering, analysing and forwarding sector reporting data to the Government reporting system. Assigns the National Health Information Center to publish the connection API specification.
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National Health Information Center circular urging provincial health departments to roll out the pharmaceutical database under Decision 1867/QĐ-BYT, with an annex of business processes. Scope covers pharmaceutical businesses, not healthcare facilities.
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Guidance on Decree 165/2026/NĐ-CP implementing the Law on Disease Prevention: catalogue of infectious pathogens by risk group and laboratory biosafety level, Category A infectious substances, specimen management.
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2,964 indicators (Hematology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Imaging).
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International classification of procedures ICD-9-CM 2026 edition — used for DRG algorithms, DVKT coding and technical reference. Replaces QĐ 4440/QĐ-BYT 2020.
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ICD-9-CM 2020 edition — replaced by QĐ 387/QĐ-BYT (05 Feb 2026).
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Added U07.1 and U07.2 to the Decision 4469 ICD-10 VN edition. Those codes now appear in the current catalogue under Circular 06/2026; Decision 98 remains only as provenance for the 2022 change.
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Medical device nomenclature version 2023 — basis for national Device.type coding.
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Updates medical device nomenclature to 2024 edition — extends QĐ 3107/QĐ-BYT.
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Disease and cause-of-death coding under ICD-10. Article 5(2)–(3) took effect earlier for digital signatures on electronic forms and the Q87.11 → Q87.1 correction.
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Catalogue and content of basic health services delivered by commune health stations.
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Separates Table 9 from the QĐ 130/QĐ-BYT/QĐ 4750/QĐ-BYT/QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT chain and defines the current electronic birth certificate data standard.
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Amends and supplements QĐ 7603/QĐ-BYT; it is not a full replacement of QĐ 7603/QĐ-BYT.
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Amends and supplements QĐ 7603/QĐ-BYT; Annex 5 department codes was repealed by QĐ 2010/QĐ-BYT, while remaining parts are tracked as legacy basis.
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Adds shared code catalogues for management, review and BHYT payment processing.
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Governs health-checkup data exchange and the VNeID electronic health book. QĐ 2062/QĐ-BYT replaces Annexes 01–03 and adds Annexes 04–05; both decisions must be read together.
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Approves the plan for at least annual free health checkups or screening for citizens.
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Plan for the electronic health record platform, including standardisation of core health information under HL7 FHIR.
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Basis for periodic, occupational and selected specialised health checkups.
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Government action programme implementing NQ 72-NQ/TW, providing policy basis for QĐ 1272/QĐ-BYT and QĐ 1551/QĐ-BYT.
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Core information catalogue for maternal, child and reproductive health systems.
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Core information catalogue for child information management systems at facility level.
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Regulates population policy, including fetal sex disclosure for diseases specified by the Ministry of Health.
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Catalogue of 137 ICD-10 coded diseases for which fetal sex may be disclosed for diagnosis and treatment.
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Allocates estimated BHYT medical expenditure for 2026 and replaces QĐ 32/QĐ-BYT.
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Initial 2026 BHYT expenditure allocation before QĐ 582/QĐ-BYT was issued.
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Publishes administrative procedures in medical examination and treatment and replaces QĐ 658/QĐ-BYT.
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Prior publication of medical examination and treatment procedures before QĐ 966/QĐ-BYT took effect.
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Decentralises administrative handling for selected special professional techniques in medical examination and treatment.
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Traditional medicine technical procedures; Annex 02 applies from 01 Jul 2026.
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Radiology diagnostic imaging technical procedures, replacing QĐ 2775/QĐ-BYT 2025.
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Consolidated document for traditional medicine technical procedure rules.
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Consolidates decentralisation rules for medical examination and treatment administrative procedures.
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Consolidated rules on decentralised handling of medical examination and treatment administrative procedures.
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Requires emergency patients to be handled by priority level; VN Core five-level triage follows international practice and is not quoted from this decision.
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Replaced by Circular 26/2025/TT-BYT (Art. 13, Cl. 2, Pt. d).
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Foundation of pharmacy regulation; Articles 74 (prescribing, data interoperability) and 64 (violating drugs) amended by Law 44/2024/QH15 — consolidated reading.
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Pharmaceutical businesses must interconnect and fully update data with the national pharmacy information system; Article 5 Clause 2 sets the 01 Jan 2026 milestone.
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Replaced by Decision 232/QĐ-TTYQG (Article 3).
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Technical interoperability standard for api.csdlduoc.com.vn/v2 operated by the National Health Information Center; replaces Decision 522/QĐ-TTYQG.
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Guides connection to the national prescription system and the 14-character prescription code.
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Operating regulation for the national information system on prescription management and dispensing by prescription.
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Historical health-checkup guidance for 2013–2023, amended by Circular 09/2023/TT-BYT during 2023. Both circulars ceased to be effective on 1 January 2024 under Article 53(2)(c–d) of Circular 32/2023/TT-BYT.
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Catalogue of Vietnam 54 ethnic groups (General Statistics Office). Basis for VNEthnicityCS. No public TVPL source link.
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List of recognised religious organisations (Government Committee for Religious Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs). Basis for VNReligionCS. No public TVPL source link.
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Five-level occupation classification for labour statistics, ISCO-08 compatible. Basis for the occupation CodeSystem (vn-occupation-cs) and VNCoreExtOccupation.
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Guidance on processing methods for medicinal materials and traditional medicines (replaces Circular 30/2017/TT-BYT). Descriptive source for VNCoreExtTraditionalProcessingMethod.
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Code lists for medical service types (MA_LOAI_KCB, 16 codes) and departments (MA_KHOA, 61 departments + sub-units). Repeals Annex 1 of Decision 824/QĐ-BYT and Annex 6 of Decision 2010/QĐ-BYT from 01 Aug 2026.
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Technical guidance accompanying Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT (5 annexes: chapters/blocks, coding principles, drugs/chemicals for Chapters XIX–XX, deleted codes, new codes). Supersedes the coding-guidance portion of Decision 4469/QĐ-BYT.
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Communicable diseases classified into groups A/B/C under Article 15(4) of the Disease Prevention Law (114/2025/QH15): 15 Group A, 47 Group B, 19 Group C. Adds influenza A(H7N9) and MERS-CoV to Group A. Basis for the new VNCommunicableDiseaseCS.
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Amends Annex 07.1 (traditional-medicine disease codes) of Decision 7603/QĐ-BYT per Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT — 30 codes re-mapped/added to ICD-10, 5 codes discontinued. The IG uses the QĐ 2552/QĐ-BYT (Mã U) scheme distinct from Decision 7603, so this is recorded as YHCT→ICD-10 mapping governance.
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Details Law 114/2025/QH15: criteria for classifying communicable-disease groups, surveillance, notification, risk assessment and outbreak response. The classification criteria underpin Decision 1965/QĐ-BYT.
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Details the Social Insurance Law, the OSH Law (health domain) and parts of the Medical Examination Law. Annex I (long-term treatment disease list) is referenced for MA_LOAI_KCB types 02/05/08 in Decision 1804/QĐ-BYT.
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Details the Health Insurance Law: primary-care registration, facility transfers, follow-up appointment slips, disease lists (Annexes I/II). Amended by Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT (digital signature replaces the seal from 01 Jun 2026; code Q87.11→Q87.1).
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Replaces Annexes 01–03 and adds Annexes 04–05 of Decision 1551/QĐ-BYT; the health-checkup interop contract is reduced to three age-group specifications; new OAuth2 API with data-sync/push + resource-sync/push, RSA-SHA256 and digital signatures. Decision 1551 must be read together with 2062.
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Amends Circulars 01/2013, 32/2023, 23/2024, and 42/2025. The whole Circular is now in force: Articles 2–3 from 1 Jul 2026 and Articles 1 and 4 from 15 Aug 2026. Implementations must pin the applicable article when versioning artifacts.
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Prime Minister directive: by end-2026 all citizens receive free periodic checkups/screening and an e-Health Record; shift toward prevention.
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Approves the programme for population-data, e-identity and e-authentication applications serving national digital transformation 2026–2030, vision to 2035.
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Principles of digital-citizen development, rights/duties of digital citizens, national e-identity apps; 15 Oct is Digital Citizen Day. Effective until 28 Feb 2027.
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Details the Pharmacy Law and Decree 163/2025/NĐ-CP: lists of narcotic, psychotropic, precursor and radioactive drugs; electronic records must be encrypted, tamper-evident, audit-logged and digitally signed.
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Rolls out the national pharmaceutical database: pharmacy-facility identifiers, stock in/out/on-hand, drug lots, specially-controlled drugs and interoperability APIs.
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Details Law 134/2025/QH15: AI risk classification, conformity assessment for high-risk AI, transparency duties, human oversight. Medical AI may be high-risk.
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Details Law 116/2025/QH15: cybersecurity appraisal and cybersecurity conditions for information systems critical to national security. Article 19 requires in-country storage of personal information of service users in Vietnam and data they generate; clause 2 applies to domestic enterprises as such, not through the sector list.
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Level classification, level-proposal dossiers, appraisal, inspection and level-appropriate protection measures. Article 9(2)(b) places online health services in the group serving citizens and businesses. Article 39(1) provides transition for systems under construction before 1 July 2026.
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Penalties for the duties set by Law 91/2025/QH15 and Decree 356/2025/NĐ-CP. Health data is sensitive personal data and therefore falls under the heavier brackets: failure to inform data subjects that their sensitive data is being processed (Art. 43), non-compliant deletion, destruction or de-identification (Art. 51), and transfer of sensitive data without physical security, encryption or anonymisation (Art. 52).
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Datasets for AI development in essential sectors (including medical imaging data), 2026–2030.
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The list covers 46 high-risk AI systems across six sectors; its healthcare section identifies two AI configurations used in surgery or surgical robots. Paired with Decree 142/2026/NĐ-CP and Law 134/2025/QH15.
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Process for collection and issuing of social-insurance books and health-insurance cards (replaces Decision 595/QĐ-BHXH); electronic BHYT card via VNeID/VssID.
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Information-security and cybersecurity regulation of Vietnam Social Security (replaces Decision 967/QĐ-BHXH); security requirements when integrating with the BHXH portal API.
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National technical regulation on cybersecurity for electronic-document storage systems: risk management, accounts/access, backup–recovery; requires encryption, immutable logs, digital signatures.
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National standard drafted by the Ministry of Public Security based on CIS Critical Security Control v8. Clause 4.8.2.1 lists the four minimum fields of a system access log — source address, destination address, destination account, time of occurrence — the same sentence reproduced in Circular 47/2026/TT-BCA. Clause 5.4.2.8 requires logging view, modify and delete actions on highly sensitive data. Clause 1 limits scope to state-agency information systems and systems critical to national security; its binding force for healthcare flows through Decree 331/2026 in three tiers — provincial health department systems clearly in scope at level 3, public facilities in scope once they run online services processing sensitive personal data of 10,000 or more data subjects, and private facilities running purely internal systems merely encouraged to comply.
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Guidance on periodic checkups for children under 6 (at least once a year) with M-CHAT-R autism-risk screening for children aged 16–30 months.
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Directive pushing healthcare facilities to complete electronic medical records by 31 Dec 2026 at the latest. Paired with Circular 13/2025/TT-BYT and Decision 965/QĐ-BYT.
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Determines risk levels (classes A/B/C/D) and management measures for medical-device products; amends Circular 05/2022/TT-BYT — its provisions detailing Decree 98/2021/NĐ-CP expire from 01 Jul 2026.
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Ministry of Health digital architecture framework, applying to units under the Ministry, with provincial health departments encouraged to apply it. Its 2025–2026 roadmap lists building health-data interoperability mechanisms aligned with HL7 FHIR R4 and DICOM V3.0 and normalising data with ICD-10/ICD-11, SNOMED CT, LOINC and RxNorm, continuing to 2030; the standards pillar lists HL7 FHIR among examples. A strategic anchor, not a universal mandate on every existing system. Succeeds MOH e-Government Architecture 2.1 (Decisions 1928 and 4152) without an explicit repeal clause.
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The current national framework and the basis for building, upgrading and operating digital infrastructure, systems, platforms, databases and services of agencies in the political system. Article 3(2) repeals Decision 3090/QĐ-BKHCN. Existing agency digital architecture frameworks continue to apply until replaced if consistent with version 1.0; agencies complete new or updated frameworks within six months. It does not name HL7 FHIR or issue code systems.
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Issued on the proposal of the Ministry of Public Security, which guides and monitors compliance. Law 148/2025/QH15 provides that digital systems of political-system agencies need to comply with these frameworks; Decision 2146/QĐ-BYT requires the MOH Digital Architecture Framework to comply. Decision 1425/QĐ-TTg does not repeal it. It does not name HL7 FHIR or issue health code systems.
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Guides ministries and provinces in building ministry- and province-level digital architecture frameworks; replaces Decisions 2568/QĐ-BTTTT (version 3.0) and 1729/QĐ-BTTTT. Decision 1425/QĐ-TTg does not repeal it. Cited as a basis of Decision 2146/QĐ-BYT. No code system.
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Repealed by Article 3(2) of Decision 1425/QĐ-TTg of 29 Jul 2026; the current national framework is version 1.0 under Decision 1425/QĐ-TTg. Decision 2146/QĐ-BYT (15 Jul 2026) cites this decision as a basis; under Article 3(3)–(4) of Decision 1425/QĐ-TTg, existing digital architecture frameworks continue to apply if consistent with version 1.0 while agencies review and update them within six months. Historical basis only.
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Field MUC_HUONG in Tables 2 (drugs) and 3 (services/supplies) grows to a maximum of 4 characters; field SO_DANG_KY adds the UBND.YYYY.X.S convention for rare drugs imported under provincial People’s Committee permits.
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Implements Circular 38/2024/TT-BYT and Article 112 of the Medical Examination and Treatment Law: a national centralised database of clinical activity and licensed practice; phase 1 (2026) upgrades the practice registry (public licence listing, digital signing), phase 2 (2027–2028) nationwide interconnection.
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A 677-field data dictionary in six parts (patient and health record; practitioners; facilities and devices; techniques; prices; costs) implementing the QĐ 2114/QĐ-BYT plan under the Data Law and Decree 278/2025/NĐ-CP. It does not replace QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT or TT 13/2025/TT-BYT and is not a HIS-to-database interface specification. VN Core models it with nine VNKCBDB* logical models, seven embedded-value code systems, four ConceptMaps and a 677-row coverage ledger; the signed copy was supplied by the project owner and no official publication page exists yet.
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Nationwide campaign down to commune level: builds the personal health database from checkup data and clinical data synced from Social Security; one e-Health Record on VNeID per citizen; API interconnection of checkup data and non-insured clinical data (deadline 31 Aug 2026).
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Mandatory coverage, household enrolment, tiered-access roadmap; amended Art. 41.10 grounds the national BHYT database. The link between the 2008 and 2024 laws.
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The central implementing decree for 2018–2025 and direct predecessor of Decree 188/2025; most articles were repealed early from 01 Jul 2025.
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Added state-funded beneficiary groups; amended Art. 15.1 of Decree 146/2018: the citizen ID card substitutes a photo BHYT card, while a level-2 e-ID document (Decree 59/2022) supplements a photo-less card.
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Bridged Law 51/2024 enforcement in H1 2025; repealed old Form 5 (follow-up slip) and Form 6 (referral letter).
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The special-forces branch parallel to civilian BHYT — NOT superseded by Decree 188/2025 (still cross-referenced as applicable); read consolidated with Decree 74/2025.
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Measures for BHYT in the People's Public Security: contributions, cards issued and managed by the Public Security social insurance, payment and BHYT care delivery; based on Decree 70/2015/NĐ-CP as amended. Replaces Circular 43/2016/TT-BCA. It issues no beneficiary codes; the sector-specific code catalogue has not been collected yet.
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Contributions, payer responsibility, declaration and card-issuance lists for police workers, employees, students and dependants of officers and soldiers; based on Decree 188/2025/NĐ-CP. Replaces Circular 57/2019/TT-BCA. It issues no beneficiary codes.
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Replaces Decree 30/2016 — fund investment management; not directly related to care benefits or claims.
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Special-forces BHYT card, paired with Decree 70/2015. Not to be confused with Decision 1456/QĐ-BHXH (assessment process, replaced by 3618/QĐ-BHXH).
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Replaces Decision 1313/QĐ-BHXH (2014); QR-coded card. The VNeID/VssID electronic card (Circular 09/2026/TT-BTC) is used in parallel with equal validity.
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The current BHYT drug benefit list (replacing Circulars 30/2018, 01/2020, 20/2020). The list annex still applies, read consolidated with Circular 37/2024.
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The third benefit-list chain (drugs — 20/2022; medical devices — 04/2017; technical services — 35/2016). Read consolidated with Circular 39/2024.
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Payment rules for costs outside the bed-day price structure (drugs, blood, infusion, oxygen…); requires BHYT care contracts from 01 Jan 2025.
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Single consolidated source for per-service payment ratios and conditions, replacing the need to read both circulars. It backs the TYLE_TT_DV field — column (6) of the cost statement form in Decision 697/QĐ-BYT.
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Price framework by hospital rank. No longer applicable: since 01 Jan 2025 there is no unified national price table by rank — prices are approved per facility using the costing method of Circular 21/2024. Retained for tracing pre-2025 claims.
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Applied to on-demand services at state healthcare facilities. Easily confused with Circular 13/2025 on electronic medical records — entirely different documents.
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Consolidates Law 25/2008 with 7 amending laws (latest: Law 51/2024, effective 01 Jul 2025); replaces the 2014 consolidation. No longer the current reading — consolidation 40/VBHN-VPQH (16 Mar 2026) adds the Disease Prevention Law 114/2025.
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Consolidates Law 25/2008 with 8 amending laws — adds the Disease Prevention Law 114/2025 on top of consolidation 22/VBHN-VPQH. Article 44 of Law 114/2025 brings periodic health checks, screening, telehealth, home care and family medicine into the insured benefit scope (Article 21), adds Article 22 clause 5a (100% coverage for a free periodic check-up or screening visit) and replaces "island district" with "special zone".
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Consolidates Law 15/2023 with the Planning Law 112/2025 (effective 01 Mar 2026 — Article 55 public health facility network planning) and the Population Law 113/2025 (effective 01 Jul 2026 — adds a point to Article 35 clause 1 on licence revocation).
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Consolidates Law 105/2016 with Laws 28/2018, 44/2024 and the Planning Law 112/2025; Article 44 clause 3 of Law 114/2025 replaces epidemic-announcement wording in several articles. Canonical reading for prescribing (Article 74) and drug information/recall (Article 64).
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The current legal basis for BHYT service pricing: facility-specific prices approved per this methodology; Circular 22/2023 expired 01 Jan 2025 (Art. 11.2.c).
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The 2023–2024 pricing link (uniform prices by hospital rank) — kept for tracing pre-2025 claims.
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The BHYT care contract is the precondition for joining the claims flow; also governs direct reimbursement (patient-initiated) — a separate Claim branch.
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The founding document of gdbhyt.baohiemxahoi.gov.vn — the channel every HIS uses for XML submission and card lookup; current decree-level basis: Art. 71.1.c of Decree 188/2025 and Art. 2 of Circular 12/2026/TT-BTC.
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In force as amended — ordering, transcription and administration workflow in inpatient facilities; the domain basis for inpatient MedicationAdministration.
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Amends a series of documents on cost payment, including Circular 23/2011 — read consolidated for medication and payment workflow.
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Amends Art. 9.1 of Circular 30/2020: three referral cases for paraclinical services with a 74-test annex; later touched by Circular 01/2025, Art. 13.2.
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The current basis for XML submission DEADLINES: Art. 6 submit right after each encounter; Art. 7 payment-request data within 7 working days, month/quarter-end data before the 5th — cited verbatim by Circular 12/2026/TT-BTC, Art. 9.1.
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Replaces Decree 59/2022 — the legal basis for VNeID level 1/2 accounts and e-ID; Decree 169/2025 moved system stewardship to the Ministry of Public Security; a Data-Law amendment draft is under consultation.
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The nationwide EMR plan under Directive 07/CT-TTg (target Sep 2025) — predecessor of Decisions 586 (2026) and 965 (2026-2030); its task of replacing Circular 46/2018 was fulfilled by Circular 13/2025.
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The final amendment in the 2016 Pharmacy Law implementing chain (Decrees 54/2017 and 155/2018) before Decree 163/2025 replaced it.
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The current registration regime under the 2016 Pharmacy Law and Law 44/2024: a new 12-digit registration number format with transition rules — the basis for the drug identity model.
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Semantic basis for six disability forms, three severity levels and assessment/certification. The law is not the direct source of numeric codes 1–6 in BHYT XML; those codes trace to QĐ 5937/QĐ-BYT and the QĐ 3176/QĐ-BYT chain.
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Consolidated reading of Law 51/2010 and amendments through Law 112/2025. A consolidation supports reference but creates no independent legal effect and does not replace the source instruments.
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Details disability forms, severity and assessment methods. It is a semantic/workflow basis and does not itself define BHYT XML numeric codes.
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Governs the disability-assessment council workflow; read through VBHN 11/VBHN-BYT. Its forms provide operational context but do not replace the XML code source.
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Partly amends Circular 01/2019 concerning residence-document submission and presentation; it does not replace the original circular in full.
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Partly amends Circular 01/2019 on councils, administrative responsibility, IT use and forms under the two-tier government model; it does not replace Circular 01 in full.
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Consolidates Circulars 01/2019, 08/2023 and 19/2026. It is the current consolidated reading, with no independent legal effect and no replacement of the source instruments.
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Framework for price setting, declaration, listing and appraisal; amended most recently by Law 140/2025. This is governance context for service/device pricing and does not itself create FHIR cardinalities or invariants.
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Partly amends and supplements Law 16/2023 on Prices; it does not replace that law in full. The changes appear in consolidation 25/VBHN-VPQH.
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Consolidated reading of Law 16/2023 on Prices and amendments through Law 140/2025; it creates no independent legal effect and does not replace the source instruments.
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Governs price setting, declarations, listings and management, including medical-device pricing context. It must be read with Decree 128/2026 and does not itself create clinical or FHIR structural constraints.
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Partly amends Decree 85/2024 concerning appraisal procedures and price governance; it does not replace Decree 85 in full.
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Basis for guardianship, statutory representation, authorised representation, and the duration and scope of representation. It underpins who may act on a patient behalf in care decisions.
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Amended by Law 35/2018 and repealed when Law 116/2025 on Cybersecurity took effect. It is retained because the repeal chain of Law 116 covers both this law and Law 24/2018, and because system security levels and licences issued under it remain valid during the transition.
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Consolidates Law 20/2023 on Electronic Transactions with the amendments made by Data Law 60/2024. Use this consolidated text when reading the law as currently in force.
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Defines the national scope of important and core data. It informs how health data is classified and protected but does not itself impose FHIR structural constraints.
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Sets the direction for health-sector data governance and use through 2030. It is strategic context for standardisation and interoperability, not a source of technical constraints.
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Action plan implementing Directive 52-CT/TW on universal health insurance in the new period. Policy context for widening BHYT coverage and data quality.
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Interlinks two administrative procedure groups: birth registration, residence registration and health-insurance card issuance for children under six; and death registration, residence de-registration and funeral or survivor benefits. It frames the public-service context of the birth certificate.
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Adds identity-card issuance for children under six to the birth-registration procedure group. Not yet in force at release time and must not activate constraints early.
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Appendix 1 issues the three-digit codes for the province or city where a citizen registered their birth — the first three digits of the 12-digit personal identification number. These codes belong to the identifier structure, not to the current administrative-division catalogue; codes issued earlier remain inside identification numbers already assigned after the administrative reorganisation.
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National technical regulation on the structure of data messages exchanged with the national general database. It is a transport-layer contract and does not replace VN Core clinical semantics.
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Guides the use of the personal identification number or citizen-identity number in place of the social-insurance number, and issues the management code set; Appendix I lists 59 BHYT participant categories.
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Facilities must use time-stamped lookup results and apply the highest entitlement when a participant falls into several categories. This is why the benefit level must be a point-in-time snapshot rather than a static attribute.
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Technical specification for the structure of data messages exchanged with the national insurance database. It belongs to the transport layer of the social-insurance flow, separate from the clinical model.
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Technical guide for sending and receiving documents and electronic data on the reception portal of the BHYT assessment information system. It is the actual transport contract for reimbursement submissions.
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Publishes the national insurance dataset and guides connection to and use of that data in place of paper documents when handling administrative procedures.
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Issues the inventory and classification of information systems managed by Vietnam Social Security. Context for determining the security level of partner systems.
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Consolidates Circulars 23/2024 and 25/2026. This is the current consolidated reading for the Appendix 1 timeline (through 31 Dec 2027) and Appendix 2 (from 1 Jan 2028).
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Sets codes and standards for nursing, midwifery and medical-technology professional titles. It is a source of public-employee title codes, distinct from practice titles under the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment.
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Sets the code, standards and salary classification for the optometry professional title.
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Sets codes and standards for the public-health professional title. Read as amended.
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Sets codes and standards for the pharmacy professional title. Read as amended.
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Sets codes and standards for the nutrition professional title. Read as amended.
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Sets codes and standards for the population-work professional title. Read as amended.
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Implements Data Law 60/2024/QH15: core data, important data, cross-border data transfer and processing, data governance. Connection/sharing rules do not by themselves grant access to health data.
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Implements E-Transactions Law 20/2023/QH15 and Data Law 60/2024/QH15 on national databases, connection, data sharing and open data — the exchange frame for the national health database (Decision 11/2026/QĐ-TTg).
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The base circular of the current birth-certificate baseline: form 01 (standard) and form 02 (surrogacy) in Appendix I; issuance and re-issuance procedures. Decision 2919/QĐ-BYT is grounded on this circular.
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Direct predecessor of Decision 2919/QĐ-BYT, in force only 09 Jun-30 Sep 2025. Kept for lineage: electronic birth-certificate data created in that window follows this standard.
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The former e-invoice base decree — fully repealed by Decree 254/2026/NĐ-CP (Article 43) together with Decree 70/2025/NĐ-CP. Kept for lineage of invoices issued before 01 Jul 2026; the IG boundary is unchanged: the KCB cost statement (Decision 697/QĐ-BYT) is not a tax invoice.
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The amending link of the former e-invoice chain — repealed together with Decree 123/2020/NĐ-CP under Article 43 of Decree 254/2026/NĐ-CP. Not to be confused with Decree 70/2015/NĐ-CP (military/police health insurance).
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The guidance circular of the former e-invoice chain — repealed by Circular 91/2026/TT-BTC (Article 25.2). Invoices issued under the old chain follow the transition rules in Article 24 of Circular 91/2026/TT-BTC.
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The legal axis of the former e-invoice chain (Decree 123/2020, Circular 32/2025/TT-BTC); amended by Law 56/2024/QH15. Transition per Article 53 of Law 108/2025: pre-01 Jul 2026 exemptions and pending audits follow this law; tax debts up to 30 Jun 2026 follow the new law. Kept for lineage of records issued before 01 Jul 2026.
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The current legal axis for e-invoices and e-records (Articles 26-27, 52); replaces the 2019 Tax Administration Law. Tiered effectivity — not reducible to a single date.
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Replaces the entire Decree 123/2020 chain (Article 43 repeals Decree 123/2020, Article 1 of Decree 41/2022, and Decree 70/2025). Health facilities: issue an e-invoice on patient request, otherwise aggregate daily (Article 9.4.m). IG boundary: the Decision 697/QĐ-BYT cost statement is not a tax invoice under this chain.
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Implements Law 108/2025/QH15 and Decree 254/2026/NĐ-CP; repeals Circular 32/2025/TT-BTC (Article 25.2); five form annexes, old-chain transition in Article 24 — the final guidance link of the current e-invoice chain.
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The current consolidated reading of the Accounting Law — the legal base of accounting records, which hospital invoices and the KCB cost statement (Decision 697/QĐ-BYT) belong to. A consolidated text carries no independent effect; health-facility e-records sit under both this law and the e-invoice chain Law 108/2025 → Decree 254/2026 → Circular 91/2026/TT-BTC.
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The health-data field catalogue the health sector feeds into the National Insurance Database — the business base for the Decision 3680/QĐ-BHXH message structure. No instrument has expressly repealed or replaced it, but its enabling basis has lapsed; use with caution and never as the sole current authority.
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Detailed guidance on completing Form 01/QTGĐ indicators under the BHYT claim-review process (Decision 3618/QĐ-BHXH) — business support for the claim-review/ClaimResponse layer. Under a replacement plan with no completed successor yet — not to be treated as a stable standard.
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Children are persons under 16; right to privacy (Article 21); parent/guardian responsibilities. Grounds the special-protection layer for child data in Consent/RelatedPerson (with Law 91/2025/QH15 Article 24).
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Data localisation and cybersecurity measures. Lifecycle watch: base Law 24/2018/QH14 was replaced by Law 116/2025/QH15 from 01 Jul 2026; the decree remains applicable where not contrary until a replacement decree is issued.
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Five information-system security levels with appraisal and approval. Base Law 86/2015/QH13 is in the chain replaced by Law 116/2025/QH15 from 01 Jul 2026, but approved levels remain transitionally valid.
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Guidance link of the AI chain: Law 134/2025/QH15 → Decree 142/2026/NĐ-CP → this circular. Does not make all medical AI high-risk — classification is per use case.
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Grounded on Decree 214/2025/NĐ-CP; sits with Circular 57/2025/TT-BYT in the procurement cluster. Not a device-identity axis — Device identity still follows the Decree 98/2021 chain (registration number, UDI).
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Legal basis for digital archival records: legal validity, integrity, long-term authentication and format migration. An operational FHIR store is not automatically a legal archive.
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Archival document database, record codes, the digital archives management system and backup storage.
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Inpatient and outpatient records 10 years; death records 30 years; psychiatric, occupational-accident and traffic-accident records 20 years; transplant and cosmetic surgery 20 years; the electronic health booklet 10 years after the person dies. Periods attach to records, not to individual resources.
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Amends Decree 69/2024/NĐ-CP: electronic identity accounts, data-access history, connection and authentication, health documents integrated into VNeID. Effective 28 Sep 2026.
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A stable location code with address, postal code and coordinates. It does not replace the 5-character healthcare facility code, nor the administrative-division code set. Effective 1 Sep 2026.
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Province code 22 is unchanged but its type and name shift from “Quang Ninh province” to “Quang Ninh city” from 1 Sep 2026 — the eighth centrally governed city.
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In force since 20 Sep 2026. The 0.10.0 province code set is published as of 20 Sep 2026: code 24 carries the display “Thành phố Bắc Ninh”, with the former name kept as a designation for looking up data recorded before that date.
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Province code 75 is unchanged but its type and name shift from “Dong Nai province” to “Dong Nai city” from 30 Apr 2026.
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Ten units change from commune to ward while keeping their codes — update unit type and display name, do not mint new codes.
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Twelve units in Bac Ninh changed from commune to ward, keeping their codes. In force since 20 Sep 2026 and applied in 0.10.0: the twelve codes carry the “Phường” label, with former commune names kept as designations.
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The statistics office's operational source for building a machine-readable set of changes up to 30 Apr 2026. Implementation evidence, not a legal basis on par with a resolution.
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Level-proposal dossiers, technical requirements, assessment and security reporting. Read together with Decree 331/2026/NĐ-CP.
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Basis for electronic exchange of discharge papers, sick-leave certificates, birth certificates, referrals and discharge summaries.
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Replaces paper dossier components with retrievable electronic data; signatures and provenance must be preserved and a fallback path kept for lookup failures.
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Responsibilities for ordering, collecting and receiving specimens, performing, signing and returning results — the domain basis for the ServiceRequest → Specimen → Observation → DiagnosticReport chain.
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Article 4 requires taking an allergy history per Appendix VI before prescribing and recording all allergy information in the medical record, discharge and referral papers; once a drug or allergen causing anaphylaxis is identified, an allergy card per Appendix VII must be issued. The six items of Appendix VI do not map to one resource: the first four are allergens, item 5 is the patient's own allergic disease, item 6 is family history.
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Article 7 sets behavioural obligations: complete and accurate updates, same-session data entry (within five working days after the session for out-of-station sites in mountainous, remote and isolated areas without a computer and internet), weekly duplicate reviews, and no deletion of subjects with vaccination history except duplicates. It lists no data fields for a vaccination record, so it places no cardinality constraint on Immunization.
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The four checklists in Appendices I-IV require recording weight and body temperature for every child, with the 38°C/35.5°C threshold on all four forms and the 2000 g threshold only on the two used outside hospitals. The under-one-month forms record weight in grams, the others in kilograms. Replaces Decision 2470/QĐ-BYT.
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HIS–LIS flow, barcodes, devices, specimens, results and statuses. For the adapter layer; do not copy wire formats into profiles.
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The catalogue of tests whose results are recognised across facilities — the basis for reusing results instead of reordering.
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Event classification, harm levels, voluntary and mandatory reporting. The circular requires the reporter's identity to be protected in voluntary reports.
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Treats the 10-digit social-insurance number as the health identifier — a reading no longer consistent with Decree 102/2025/NĐ-CP or with the personal identification number as the identity axis. No express repeal was found, so the status is kept with this caveat.
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The policy basis for replacing paper dossier components with data; read together with Decision 1222/QĐ-BTC.
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A Politburo resolution — the policy basis for Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT and for digitalising the health sector's reporting regimes.
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The technical guidance Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT cites when reviewing and standardising each reporting regime before configuring it on the system.
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Read together with Decision 293/QĐ-TTg: the two documents set the indicator group prioritised for standardisation under Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT. Note that Decision 2716 calls this a "Decision"; the original is an official letter.
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The indicator set that health indicators must align with when reported to the Government Reporting Information System.
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Replaces Circular 01/2020/TT-VPCP. Governs how the Ministry of Health reporting system interconnects with the Government Reporting Information System.
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The general framework for the catalogue of reporting regimes that Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT brings onto the system.
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The basis for the 13 Drug Administration reporting lines in the Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT catalogue.
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Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT states it continues to apply until an official replacement is issued.
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The basis for the Maternal and Child Health Department reporting line in Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT — the only line in the catalogue whose basis was issued by another ministry.
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Outside the VN Core coding scope; kept in the registry so the procurement reporting line of Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT can be traced back.
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Supplies the content for special-control class #5. Issued under Circular 27/2024/TT-BYT — that circular has lapsed, but clause 2 Article 17 of Circular 18/2026/TT-BYT keeps this Decision in force until a replacement list is issued.
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Lapsed under point b clause 4 Article 16 of Circular 18/2026/TT-BYT. Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT, signed 25 Aug 2026, still cites it in Appendix 2 item 25 — an error in the source document, recorded for reference and not used as a current basis.
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Amended by Decree 155/2018/NĐ-CP and Circulars 09/2015, 29/2020 and 34/2025/TT-BYT; read via consolidated text 09/VBHN-BYT rather than citing the 2011 original alone.
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The current reading source for cosmetics management; consolidates Circular 06/2011/TT-BYT with Decree 155/2018/NĐ-CP and three amending circulars.
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Appendix I supplies the concept and formula for each indicator; section 16 (Health and healthcare) underpins two Measures in the IG — code 1601 doctors and 1602 hospital beds per ten thousand population. The 2024 and 2026 amendments touch only the GDP/GRDP release calendar and Appendix II, not Appendix I.
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Amends the GDP/GRDP release calendar in Article 12 and replaces Appendix II of Decree 94/2022/NĐ-CP. Full-text check confirms no health indicator is touched. Further amended by Decree 13/2026/NĐ-CP.
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The final link in the chain Decree 94/2022 → 62/2024 → 13/2026. Appendix I is untouched, so health indicator content is unchanged. Not to be confused with the superseded Decree 13/2023/NĐ-CP on personal data protection.
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It issues no code system; section VII requires the data dictionary to be compatible with ISO/IEC 11179, HL7 FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC and RxNorm. It underpins Decision 2716/QĐ-BYT.
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A map of health check-up populations: general content per Circular 25/2026/TT-BYT, seven specialised groups under their own instruments. It confirms that the start-of-school-year check for preschool and school pupils is a separate axis, not a periodic check-up — matching how codes #22 and #23 are modelled. Replaces Official Letter 3401/BYT-KCB.
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Fully superseded by Official Letter 5008/BYT-KCB. Retained to interpret data created between 12 May and 6 Jul 2026.
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Appendix 1 lists only two platforms: the administrative-procedure system and the electronic health record integrated into VNeID. It issues no code system; its value is establishing the electronic health record as a ministry-level common platform.
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National-level criteria and catalogue of common digital platforms. Direction only, no data constraint. Note: Decision 4048/QĐ-BYT (2025) implements Decision 2618/QĐ-BKHCN dated 11/09/2025 per its own Article 1, not this document.
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Issues five cadre health classes A, B1, B2, C and D — an axis ranking fitness for continued duty, distinct from the Class I-V scale that ranks general health. The two are not interchangeable and no instrument permits deriving one from the other. Replaces Decision 2136/QĐ-BYT.
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The basis for the seafarer group in the health check-up map of Official Letter 5008/BYT-KCB. It issues standards and forms, not a separate classification code system.
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Amends Article 2(1) (seafarer health checks follow medical examination and treatment law), adds Article 9(3) (public listing of eligible facilities on the Medical Service Administration portal), and repeals Article 3, Article 11 and Appendix VII. It issues no code system — read consolidated with Circular 22/2017/TT-BYT.
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The basis for the aviation-personnel group in the health check-up map of Official Letter 5008/BYT-KCB. A joint circular of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Transport.
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Still in force. Article 147.7 of Decree 96/2023/ND-CP only replaces the phrase "medical equipment and supplies" with "medical devices" — wording only, no change of legal status.
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Seven IT maturity levels. NOTE: Section VIII of Appendix I and the related EMR assessment criteria CEASED TO HAVE EFFECT on 06/06/2025 under Circular 13/2025/TT-BYT, Article 4(3)(b) — they are no longer EMR deployment conditions. The remaining parts stay facility maturity criteria, not a data standard — no profile constraints are derived from them.
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The originating instrument for codes V.08.01.* (doctors), V.08.02.* (preventive-medicine doctors) and V.08.03.* (assistant doctors) — 7 of the 32 practitioner-title codes. Retained in the registry with a historical role for code provenance, not as a current legal basis.
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The originating instrument for codes V.08.05.* (nurses), V.08.06.* (midwives) and V.08.07.* (medical technologists) — 9 of the 32 practitioner-title codes. Together with Circular 10/2015 these two instruments are the source of half the code system (16 of 32 codes).
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Amends the title standards in SIX joint circulars (10, 11, 26, 27, 28/2015 and 08/2016). It amends the STANDARDS only, not the code numbers — so no code in the practitioner-title system changes because of it.
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