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South Korea to Expand ‘Health Information Highway,’ Granting Patients Access to Medical Records Nationwide

South Korea to Expand ‘Health Information Highway,’ Granting Patients Access to Medical Records Nationwide

SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on August 12 that starting next year, South Koreans will have unprecedented access to their medical records from all tertiary hospitals across the country through a government-operated platform called the Health Information Highway.  This digital initiative aims to consolidate dispersed medical data from [...]

ETRI to Develop Service to Manage Integrated Medical Records

ETRI to Develop Service to Manage Integrated Medical Records

SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dispersed medical records in many medical institutions will be integrated in a personal smartphone in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on November 6 that it started to develop an ICT Healing Platform Service, which allows a patient to gather scattered medical records from hospitals [...]

Hospital Patients’ End-of-Life and Care Wishes Now Part of Electronic Medical Records

Hospital Patients’ End-of-Life and Care Wishes Now Part of Electronic Medical Records

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 [...]