The General Hospital

Consistent with IMI Corp's mission, IMI General Hospital of Can Tho, an international medical institution located in the municipality of Can Tho was designed to serve as a healthcare model for Vietnam, providing services where medical need is most pronounced, and lack of quality or affordable is most apparent.

The Hospital has been designed to provide improve healthcare services for the municipality of Can Tho, as well as the neighboring provinces of the Mekong Delta, and will serve as a healthcare model of quality, efficiency, and cost effectiveness that can rival any international standard healthcare center system.

Clinical areas at the General Hospital cover the areas of

• Radiology
• Pathology
• Dermatology
• Oncology
• Cardiology
• Neurology
• Ophthalmology
• Otorhinolaryngology
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Pre-natal, neo-natal and pediatrics

IMI-ct will serve as a prototype project whose model will support country-wide expansion, contributing to Vietnam’s technological and healthcare development by combining both.

Through telemedicine, IMI-ct is the frontrunner in bringing medical professionals electronically into the underserved southeastern provinces, places removed from modern developments in technology and healthcare alike.  Telemedicine allows patients to obtain medical consultation in their own community, lowering costs, reducing patient travel to secondary or tertiary healthcare centers and overcoming barriers in the delivery of specialist healthcare, including lack of proper public transportation, great distances, travel time and expenses, waiting time, and the lack of trained medical doctors, especially specialists and super specialists. 

IMI-ct has developed a unique model for telemedicine for Vietnam which will connect doctors and patients at government and private hospitals and clinics through the digitalization and secure transmission of medical information like images, video, sound, vitals and text, all incorporating the various of telemedicine:  workstations (hardware & software, computers and monitors), peripheral devices (digital cameras, scanners, modems, printers, scopes) telecommunications connections (dial-up, ISDN, Asynchronous Transfer Modes (ATMs), ADSL, and Frame Relay, the Internet and VPNs) and videoconferencing systems.

The network connects people at the telemedicine command centers in Can Tho, Ho Chi Minh City and Houston) and remote, rural sites, which send clinical info for review or reporting.  In the near future, IMI-ct will spearhead the change from a center-based system to an Internet-based distributed medical knowledge and service system.  With the IMI-ct telemedicine system, medical professionals and support staff  at the IMI-ct telemedicine command center will serve the southern half of Vietnam, and connect to partnering healthcare institutions around the world, offering provincial Vietnam the highest-standard medical treatment.

We are taking the initiative in the field of medical informatics, where artificial intelligence, process technology and clinical experience come together.  With data (numerical values) and information (non-numerical) as inputs, we are intent on delivering truly remote and mobile treatment, determining the illness and making a diagnosis. 

With support of the municipality and neighboring provinces, IMI-ct will the major source in the Mekong Delta for providing information and boosting capabilities through continuing education and training and global outreach involving collaborators, affiliates, and partners in order to build human resource skills.  IMI-ct education services include curriculum and course development, seminars and symposia, on- and off-site training and consulting, and multi-media production.

In places where medical need is most pronounced, and lack of quality or affordability is most apparent, IMI-ct is focused on providing unique, responsive services and solutions.