VSS' digital transformation creates favorable condition for people and enterprises

24/06/2024 02:47 PM


Digital transformation is an objective requirement and an inevitable trend globally in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Vietnam regards digital transformation as a strategic choice and a top priority for rapid, sustainable development. Catching the trend, VSS industry always focuses on digital transformation and gains many positive results .

On January 6, 1, the Prime Minister approved the Project to develop application of population data, identification and electronic authentication to serve the national digital transformation period 2022-2022, vision to 2025 ( referred to as Project 2030 for short).

The overall goal of the Project is to apply the national population database, electronic identification and authentication system, and citizen identification cards (CCCD) with electronic chips in the national digital transformation process. in accordance with the National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with a vision to 2030.
Project 06 aims to serve 5 utility groups: Serving administrative procedures and providing online public services; serving economic and social development; serving digital citizens; Completing the ecosystem to connect, exploit, and enrich residential data; serving the direction and administration of leaders at all levels.
Project 06, the VNeID application or electronic chip-embedded CCCD card will gradually replace citizen documents in a number of transactions according to the provisions of law, providing public services, Commercial services serve citizens' digital utilities such as residence services, e-commerce, electronic payments and other services such as social insurance, health insurance...

On the basis of connection and sharing between the National Population Database with other national databases and existing specialized databases such as education data, business data, and tax data. ... procedures to serve citizens and businesses will be guaranteed to be handled accurately, conveniently and safely.

Not only that, user accounts are authenticated to ensure the identity of each citizen, creating transparency and limiting fraud and scams in cyberspace.
Vietnam Social Security  industry achieved positive results in digital transformation work, bringing significant and practical benefits not only to the people and businesses but also to state management agencies in the fields of social security and health insurance. These results have been recognized and highly appreciated by the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, sectors, people, and businesses.
Accordingly, he industry has built and developed a large, basically complete database covering most people and businesses. This database has been synchronized and authenticated with the National Population Database, laying an important foundation for administrative procedure reform. Accordingly, the administrative procedure reform work of the industry has been vigorously implemented, increasingly convenient, and quick, such as the use of citizen identification cards in health insurance medical examinations and treatment, pension payments, and social insurance benefits through personal accounts. Data sharing between Vietnam Social Security and ministries, sectors, and localities is increasingly timely and open, creating a shared database, bringing greater benefits to people and businesses. 100% of the industry's operational and management processes are also carried out in a digital environment, helping to improve labor productivity and information transparency...

Currently, all eligible administrative procedures of Vietnam Social Security have been provided with full-process online public services on multiple platforms. In the first six months of 2024, the entire Vietnam Social Security sector received and processed more than 6.8 million electronic transaction records.
In implementing the Government's Project 06, Vietnam Social Security continues to connect and share data between the National Insurance Database and the National Population Database; deploy technical measures to ensure the gradual use of citizen identification cards (CCCD), the National Electronic Identification Application (VNeID) to replace paper health insurance cards for health insurance medical examinations and treatment. To date, 100% of health insurance medical facilities have implemented health insurance medical examinations and treatment using CCCD with chips (meeting the requirement of looking up health insurance card information using personal identification numbers/CCCD), with more than 104.2 million successful lookups of health insurance card information using personal identification numbers/CCCD serving the health insurance medical examination and treatment procedures.

Additionally, Vietnam Social Security continues to promote cashless insurance benefit payments. In the first six months of 2024, approximately 74% of beneficiaries received social insurance benefits and unemployment allowances through personal accounts in urban areas(an increase of about 10% compared to 2023), in coordination with ministries, sectors, and localities to implement electronic health records; interconnecting health examination data for drivers, birth certificates, and death certificates; integrating social insurance information into the VNeID application; integrating VNeID accounts with VssID; implementing the National Data Center Project.

According to Deputy General Director Chu Manh Sinh, Head of the Project 06 Steering Committee of Vietnam Social Security, the digital transformation work of Vietnam Social Security, focusing on Project 06, continues to achieve solid progress. This has brought about “breakthrough” changes in all professional activities, creating an important foundation for the development of Vietnam Social Security towards becoming more professional and modern, for the satisfaction of participants and beneficiaries of social security and health insurance policies.

General Director Nguyen The Manh said that in the coming time, VSS continue to build and enrich the industry's database, ready to share, synchronize, and interconnect with ministries, sectors, and localities, thereby continuing to reduce administrative procedures to better serve people and businesses, as well as improving management efficiency, building, and completing operational processes in a digital environment. Strengthen communication about digital transformation, introduce, and widely replicate the achievements and results of the digital transformation of Vietnam Social Security to the entire society, creating consensus among people, businesses, sectors, and levels in performing tasks.

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