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Cambodia’s well being system is coming into the digital age, with personal firms supporting the surge in on-line medical companies, however the absence of clear regulation has raised considerations about security, information safety and accountability of sufferers. A brand new EuroCham White Paper is looking for a authorized framework to manipulate digital well being platforms, safeguard affected person belief, and encourage innovation.
EuroCham Healthcare Discussion board and Innovation Exhibition, Sor Samnangvathana, co-chairperson representing practitioners, informed reporters on Tuesday that digital well being developments in Cambodia have outpaced current legal guidelines and establishments, creating important regulatory gaps.
The White Paper on Governing Digital Well being Platforms in Cambodia highlights the dangers of unclear classification of digital well being platforms — whether or not as healthcare services, ICT suppliers, or e-commerce platforms. Whereas these platforms have the potential to enhance service supply and scale back prices, the shortage of regulation might compromise security and accountability.
The paper recommends establishing a Nationwide Digital Well being Coordination Committee (NDHCC) and a Digital Well being Taskforce to make sure alignment throughout ministries, councils, and the personal sector.
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It additionally proposed adaptive authorized instruments reminiscent of regulatory sandboxes, risk-based platform licensing, integration into nationwide financing schemes just like the Well being Fairness Fund and the Nationwide Social Safety Fund, and using de-identified, real-time information to assist public well being monitoring, illness surveillance, and One Well being planning.
Elias Engelking, co-chairperson of the chamber’s healthcare committee, mentioned the time is correct for Cambodia to guide the coverage dialogue on digital well being. He famous that because the world undergoes fast digital transformation and Cambodia strikes towards higher middle-income standing by 2030, growth financing is shifting from conventional assist to funding. Constructing a powerful and resilient digital well being system would require shut cooperation between the federal government, personal sector, and worldwide companions.
Engelking emphasised the significance of belief and collaboration in digital well being.
“Digital well being platforms can join sufferers, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, and insurers in a single trusted system,” he mentioned. “This isn’t a know-how truthful. It’s a dialog on governance, partnerships, and belief, supported by actual examples and an innovation exhibition on the identical flooring.”
“The purpose is straightforward: construct belief between private and non-private actors and assist common well being protection, making certain each citizen in Cambodia can entry high quality well being care,” he added.
Koy Vanny, spokesperson for the Ministry of Well being, and Liv Sophanarith, spokesperson for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, didn’t reply to questions concerning the ministries’ tackle EuroCham’s advice on the time of publication.
Greater than 125 international locations, together with Cambodia, have developed methods and insurance policies for digital well being, the Business, Science, Expertise and Innovation Ministry has beforehand mentioned.
In accordance with the White Paper, Cambodia has superior in digital well being by way of methods just like the Digital Well being Technique 2024–2035, HealthTech Roadmap 2022, and Well being Strategic Plan 2025–2034, specializing in telemedicine, interoperable methods, and AI instruments for Common Well being Protection.
Nonetheless, it added, though the Well being Ministry’s new Digital Well being Division reveals institutional dedication, gaps stay, together with fragmented methods, unequal entry, low digital literacy.
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