Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific.Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of Health Malaysia’s head of digital health, Seyoung Jung, assistant professor and CIO of Seoul National…
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Security concerns and vendor restrictions are some of the major barriers to unlocking health data’s full potential in raising patient outcomes.In the HIMSS24 APAC plenary session, “Power of Data in Modern Healthcare,” Cho Chi-Heum, professor…
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Naver Corp and Kakao Corp, two of South Korea’s biggest IT companies, have shared innovative uses of AI in healthcare.In the HIMSS24 APAC panel session, “Tech Titans in Health: Naver and Kakao’s Role in…
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Seoul-based Asan Medical Center (AMC) has been validated for Stage 6 of the new HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM). The new INFRAM, introduced in March, assesses an organisation’s infrastructure maturity based on cybersecurity, adoption, sustainability,…
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South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute are seeking hospital participants in its pilot project to improve medical image exchange.Based on a media release, the pilot project…
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#HIMSS24APAC is approaching quickly, and spots are filling up fast. 🤩We talked to our APAC Director of Strategic Partnerships Sukhjit Singh about what's in store for this year's conference—and this's his take.We can't to…
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The National Healthcare Group, the health cluster covering central and north Singapore, seeks to integrate an AI assistant into its radiology workflow.According to a media release, the group will be deploying South Korea-based Lunit’s…
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Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea has recently been validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model. The hospital’s IT infrastructure architecture was assessed in five areas: mobility, security, collaboration, transport and…
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Korea opens access to cancer data of 2 million patientsResearchers in South Korea can now access an expanded big-data repository on 2.26 million cancer patients.
The Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), together with…
A recent study in South Korea has explored the use of a cryptographic scheme widely used in secure elections to protect patient data used in training AI models. Researchers from Asan Medical Center have applied…
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