JEJU, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — On a recent sunny spring day, the beautiful sound of piano resonated throughout the first floor lobby at Jeju National University Hospital in Jeju Island. The source of the music was pianist Lee Eun-hyung, 35, whose father, Lee Chang-hyo, 64, has been receiving chemotherapy at the hospital since 2017. Now, [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency said Thursday that it will construct the first intensive care hospital in Iraq by 2023, as part of efforts to help the Middle East country strengthen its medical services. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said that under a support project worth US$39.5 million, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid ongoing controversy over the mandatory installation of surveillance cameras in hospital operating rooms to prevent medical malpractice, a local plastic surgery hospital is drawing attention as it has taken measures to enable real-time monitoring of surgical operations. BK Plastic Surgery Hospital in Seoul announced on Monday that it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local hospital in Seoul has introduced virtual reality (VR) technology to train nurses in an ‘untact’ (contactless) environment in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Asan Medical Center announced Monday that it has set up a VR training platform to enable trainees to study in virtual [...]
BANGALORE, India and PUNE, India, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that it has been selected by the Dr. D.Y. Patil Hospital & Research Centre in Pune, one of Asia’s leading medical institutes1, for its network upgrade. This will greatly simplify the hospital’s network configuration, management and maintenance and [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A story of young doctors wanting to go back on duty after being quarantined for being in contact with a coronavirus patient is moving the hearts of the public. Thirteen of 48 interns at Kyungpook National University Hospital in country’s southeastern city of Daegu, where hundreds of COVID-19 infections [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Actress Lee Young-ae has announced that she will be joining a consortium to acquire the nation’s first women’s hospital, which is on the verge of closing. Because Lee gave birth to all her children at Cheil General Hospital & Women’s Healthcare Center and visits the hospital occasionally, she has [...]
GWANGJU, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Chosun University Hospital in Gwangju announced on Sunday that it is using Watson for Oncology, a medical AI supercomputer designed by IBM Inc., for cancer treatment. Once the information about a patient along with the preliminary diagnosis is entered, Watson delivers the optimum method of treatment by analyzing its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is said to be set on building a general hospital in Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu Province, home to a factory operated by the South Korean semiconductor giant. According to industry insiders, SK hynix CEO and Vice Chairman Park Sung-wook recently [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to turn “Service Design” into a brand in an effort to expand its outreach. “Service Design” is a space of refuge created by Seoul, dedicated to bringing emotional relief to people whose jobs require emotional labor. Seoul revealed today that it would be developing [...]