At a working session with the Ministry of Health on May 20, 2026, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasised: Developing traditional medicine, taking higher care of individuals’s well being within the new period.
Traditional medicine is going through nice improvement alternatives because the nation enters a brand new stage. Accordingly, this area must be developed on the idea of inheriting nationwide quintessence, mixed with trendy science and technology, changing into an necessary a part of nationwide medicine and a useful resource for nationwide improvement.
The common spirit is to show the heritage of traditional medicine right into a useful resource for nationwide improvement and higher individuals’s well being care within the new period” – General Secretary, President To Lam emphasized.
The General Secretary and President also noted that it is necessary to especially attach importance to promoting science, technology and digital transformation, protecting intellectual property to standardize and digitize Vietnamese traditional medicine; urgently digitize the entire treasure, family remedies, and precious indigenous knowledge of Vietnamese ethnic groups; build and complete the national database on traditional medicine; build national key research programs on medicinal herbs, high-value remedies; must link research with commercialization and the market, with close coordination between research institutes, universities and hospitals, local businesses…
Traditional medicine doctors in the AI era: Opportunity or challenge?
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quoc Huy, Director of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy, said that Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo on developing science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation to 2030, with a vision to 2045, has created an important orientation for the health sector. According to him, digital transformation is not only a major policy but also an inevitable trend to improve the quality of training, research and people’s health care, opening up many opportunities and challenges.
Mr. Nguyen Quoc Huy emphasized that digital transformation at the Academy is not simply investing in technological equipment but a comprehensive innovation process from management, teaching, research to thinking and learning culture. In recent years, the Academy has implemented many solutions such as learning management systems (LMS), electronic learning materials, online question banks and gradually applying data technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in managing and analyzing scientific research topics.
However, besides benefits such as improving learning quality, increasing teaching effectiveness and expanding access to clinical situations, the application of AI in medical training also poses many challenges. The risks pointed out include excessive dependence on technology, the possibility of inaccurate information appearing, the risk of medical data leakage as well as the disparity in technology access conditions between training institutions.
Digital platform development roadmap in traditional medicine
According to the plan, in the period 2025–2027, the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy will continue to improve the LMS platform, upgrade the online learning experience, develop a digital library on traditional medicine and build a database of remedies, medicinal herbs, and medical records to serve AI research and application.
In the period 2028–2030, the Academy aims to apply virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology in clinical practice to improve diagnostic skills. At the same time, in-depth data analysis systems will be deployed to forecast disease trends and support personalized medical research.
After 2030, the Academy goals to construct a complete digital studying platform, connecting college students, medical doctors and researchers with synthetic intelligence programs, thereby selling inter-sectoral cooperation and bettering the standard of coaching and analysis.
Traditional medicine is more and more trusted and chosen by individuals
In many traditional medicine services as we speak, non-drug therapies similar to acupuncture, therapeutic massage, acupressure and dưỡng sinh are more and more being chosen by individuals, particularly in useful rehabilitation and therapy of continual illnesses.
Ha Dong Traditional Medicine Hospital has put into operation a high-quality neuropsychiatric – musculoskeletal therapy unit to fulfill the wants of in-depth medical examination and therapy of individuals within the Capital. The unit makes a speciality of examination and therapy of illnesses similar to complications, again ache, peritonitis, sequelae after stroke and many different musculoskeletal illnesses.
The hospital at present successfully applies a mannequin combining traditional medicine and trendy medicine, receiving lots of of visits day by day. Many sufferers have recovered positively after strokes, accidents and musculoskeletal illnesses due to the mixture of acupuncture, therapeutic massage, acupressure and useful rehabilitation.
Modernization however nonetheless preserving traditional values
According to Dr. Quach Tuan Vinh, Central Vietnam Oriental Medicine Association, modernizing traditional medicine just isn’t changing or denying traditional values however a technique of inheritance, standardization and improvement primarily based on trendy science. In the context of accelerating continual illnesses, the necessity for rehabilitation and long-term well being care is growing, integrating traditional medicine with trendy medicine is an inevitable pattern.
According to the orientation of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Vietnam’s coverage, traditional medicine must be developed within the route of standardization, modernization and primarily based on scientific proof. In the built-in medicine mannequin, trendy medicine promotes its strengths in analysis, emergency and particular therapy, whereas traditional medicine helps therapy, illness prevention, rehabilitation and neighborhood well being care.
In current years, Vietnam has achieved many optimistic ends in constructing traditional medicine technical processes, creating natural medicines, making use of non-drug strategies similar to acupuncture, atrial acupuncture, thread embedding, therapeutic massage – dưỡng sinh, and selling scientific analysis, digital transformation and human useful resource coaching.
Besides modernizing strategies and therapy strategies, preserving traditional medicine cultural values continues to be thought-about an necessary issue for traditional medicine to develop sustainably. Modernizing traditional medicine in an built-in mannequin with trendy medicine is recognized as an efficient path to enhance the standard of well being care, rehabilitation and affirm the place of Vietnamese traditional medicine within the trendy well being system.