BUSAN, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Major hospitals in South Korea’s second largest city of Busan will stage presentations in Russia later this week as part of their efforts to enter the Russian medical market and entice Russian patients, a Busan city official said Tuesday. “A medical delegation from Busan-based Dong-a University Hospital, Kangdong Hospital [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Middle Eastern people who visit South Korea for medical treatments are most dissatisfied with the quality of Islamic foods provided by local hospitals, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey taken by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Muslim patients who visited South Korea last year gave local [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The market for plastic surgery in Korea is colossal. But mistrust has also grown in recent years over controversy related to what the public calls “ghost surgery”. Ghost surgery refers to an illegal practice in which surgical procedures are performed by substitute doctors and nurses, or even employees of [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government on Friday gave approval for the opening of a foreign-owned for-profit hospital on Jeju Island, which can lead to diversification in the country’s medical service sector. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, it approved the request made by the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province for [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans rank first among the citizens of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries in terms of visits to hospitals per year, data showed Tuesday. According to the Health Data 2015 provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the OECD, South Koreans visited the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — It is reported that one in five South Koreans can’t go to hospital. While the number of those who are not able to go to hospital is continuously decreasing, the number of people who can’t go to clinic due to lack of money is rising. According to a report [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Lumināt announces a development partnership with UMass Memorial Health Care (UMass Memorial) for an industry-leading advance care planning platform to fully integrate patients’ end-of-life directives into their electronic medical records. This ground-breaking development partnership will equip all UMass Memorial providers to access, understand and implement patients’ wishes, reducing the cost of care [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – CheongShim Hospital, Korea’s leader in medical tourism, will hold an academic conference on July 19 in commemoration of its 10th anniversary. To be held at 5 pm on Friday at the hospital’s auditorium, the conference will be attended by Cha Sang-hyup, the hospital’s chief director, and Kim Sung-gi, Gyeonggi [...]