SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Telemedicine consultations in South Korea reached a cumulative 11 million cases in 2024, reflecting a growing reliance on remote healthcare services for non-urgent conditions, according to the Remote Medical Industry Council (RMIC), a consortium of telemedicine platform companies. The RMIC reported that remote consultations were most commonly used for mild [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held a virtual meeting with the United States on Thursday to enhance mutual understanding of their respective telemedicine industries and explore areas of cooperation, officials said. The session with some 30 companies from both countries followed up on the South Korea-U.S. Supply Chain and Commercial Dialogue (SCCD) [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government allowed community health centers to provide remote clinical services via video or phone appointments on Wednesday, a senior official said, as a mass walkout by junior doctors has disrupted public health services at major hospitals for more than six weeks. Telemedicine services have been extended to all [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –In response to collective action by trainee doctors opposing a significant increase in medical school admissions, the government’s full-scale expansion of telemedicine services has led to a twofold increase in its usage. To address the potential medical service gaps at major hospitals, particularly those serving as training institutions for resident [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Monday that the government will fully expand telemedicine services if doctors walk off their jobs in protest of the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions. Thousands of trainee doctors, such as residents at Seoul’s five major general hospitals, were poised to submit their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Thursday that it will fully expand telemedicine services and mobilize assistant nurses if a major association of trainee doctors pushes ahead with a nationwide strike in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. Tension between doctors and the government has grown [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Tuesday to improve services in the digital government, online gaming and telemedicine sectors, saying digital technologies should be a tool to promote people’s freedom and welfare. Yoon made the remark during a government-public debate on people’s livelihood issues, the seventh in a series, which [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea seeks to launch a telemedicine pilot program mainly for second-visit patients starting next month, as well as for those who cannot visit clinics due to physical illness or infectious disease, the health ministry said Wednesday. The country’s telemedicine services have been temporarily allowed since 2020 through April [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 South Koreans have already used or are willing to use telemedicine services during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey showed Thursday. A joint research team from the National Cancer Center and the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital conducted a survey of 2,097 adults over [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — After the government temporarily lifted regulations on online medical diagnosis and treatments amid the COVID-19 pandemic, competition is heating up among new players to get the upper hand in the online medical connectivity market. Goodoc, a search/reservation service for medical services in the country, saw its monthly active users [...]