As one of two projects of VinUni sponsored by the Vingroup Innovation Fund (VinIF) with a total value of 9 billion VND, the research project conducted by Prof. Minh Do is titled: VAIPE: AI-assisted IoT-enabled smart, optimal, and Protective healthcare monitoring and supporting system for Vietnamese.

Professor Minh Do, together with Dr. Hieu Pham of VinUni, Dr. Phi-Le Nguyen and Dr. Hung Nguyen of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Prof. Duc Tran of University of Massachusetts, and Prof. My Thai of University of Florida will be working on this project for three years. The research team also includes medical practitioners from Vietnamese hospitals, and graduate and undergraduate students from both VinUni and HUST.

The prevalent self-medication practice in Vietnam raises a critical challenge and opportunity to develop smart and protective healthcare monitoring and supporting systems. The VAIPE project attempts to address this opportunity by developing, among other things, a smartphone app that uses the camera and novel AI and visual recognition methods to allow the user to easily digitalize health records, including doctor’s diagnostics and prescription, daily in-take medication and readings of medical devices at home.

The ultimate goal is to provide ordinary citizens with easy access to timely, reliable, usable and personalized information and intelligence about their health. At the same time, the medical community will benefit from this rich data that can be used to develop health care policy and practices to benefit the Vietnamese, and lead to more research and analysis not just for Vietnam and the larger medical community.