Hiệu quả can thiệp ứng dụng công nghệ thông tin trong hoạt động thống kê y tế tại các trạm y tế xã tỉnh Thanh Hóa, năm 2025

Current health statistics reporting in commune health stations across Vietnam faces significant limitations, compromising data quality and the efficiency of primary healthcare management. This challenge underscores the critical need for innovative solutions to enhance healthcare data systems. Information technology (IT) emerges as a pivotal approach, offering the potential to streamline processes, improve data accuracy, and ultimately strengthen health service delivery at the grassroots level. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an integrated health statistics reporting software specifically implemented in commune health stations within Thanh Hoa province, providing insights into its impact on improving data management practices.

Healthcare professionals at commune and district levels, public health policymakers, health information technology developers, and researchers interested in digital health interventions in primary healthcare settings in Vietnam.

This academic paper presents a pre-post intervention study conducted across 48 commune health stations in Hau Loc and Quang Xuong districts, Thanh Hoa province, involving 238 healthcare staff. The primary objective was to assess the effectiveness of an integrated health statistics reporting software designed to address existing challenges in data management. The intervention involved deploying the new software, providing comprehensive training, and offering ongoing technical support and supervision. The study evaluated the software's impact by measuring changes in staff knowledge and practice regarding health statistics reporting, alongside an assessment of the software's technical features. Results demonstrated a significant improvement in staff knowledge, increasing from 57.3% pre-intervention to 79.4% post-intervention (p < 0.001). While practice showed a modest increase from 91.3% to 94.5% (p = 0.246), the integrated software itself was highly rated with an average score of 4.1 out of 5. Key strengths identified included its usefulness, information security, management support, reliability, quality of information, support capabilities, data extraction efficiency, and internal connectivity. In conclusion, the intervention successfully enhanced both the knowledge and practice of health statistics reporting among commune health station staff in the targeted districts, with the software receiving strong endorsements for its technical attributes. These findings highlight the value of information technology interventions in strengthening primary healthcare data systems and offer implications for future digital health initiatives in similar settings within Thanh Hoa province and beyond.