South Koren President Moon Jae-in (second right) takes a look at bio medical products and medical devices produced in North Chungcheong province on Wednesday. Patients groups have called for the idea of collecting medical data of actual patients to boost research and find the cause of rare incurable diseases. The government said that establishing bio big data is similar to building Gyeongbu Expressway in the past that played a pivotal role in Korea’s industrialisation. The government said that it will designate a centre hospital for data after reviewing clinical information and data scale and establish medical big data platform on a single hospital base. It also plans to create public big data where medical information of public centers are used on a random basis to boost national health.

Source: Bangkok Post May 22, 2019 13:25 UTC