The Health Section's Medical Bus Comes to You! ... Busan City Holds 'Medical Bus' Opening Ceremony

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Busan City is launching a customized mobile health medical service called the ‘Medical Bus,’ which applies advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

The Medical Bus was designed to provide high-quality medical services by connecting base hospitals and visiting sites in real time for medically vulnerable groups.

The city will hold the opening ceremony for the mobile health medical service ‘Medical Bus’ at 2:30 PM on the 1st at the Busan Senior Welfare Center.

The event will be attended by Mayor Park Hyung-jun, Busan Bank President An Gam-chan, Hyundai Motor Group TaaS Division Executive Director Kim Sung-geun, Indang Medical Foundation Chairman Jeong Heung-tae, among others, with business reports, commemorative speeches, congratulatory speeches, unveiling, and demonstrations scheduled.

The mobile health medical service ‘Medical Bus’ is a project prepared by Busan City to respond to the increasing demand for public medical services among medically vulnerable groups due to the growing elderly population and the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

The Medical Bus is a converted eco-friendly electric bus equipped with specialized examination equipment such as mobile ultrasound and X-ray devices.

Professional medical staff including doctors and nurses provide customized medical services such as health checkups, consultations, and education, serving as a ‘mobile health medical service platform.’

If necessary, patient information is shared to enable remote collaborative consultations with hospital medical staff.

The Medical Bus enables continuous health management and medical services without time and spatial constraints for medically vulnerable groups and chronic disease patients who require ongoing care.

The Medical Bus operates with city budget supplemented by donations from Busan Bank, Hyundai Motor Group, Korea Housing Finance Corporation, and Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation.

Before the opening ceremony, a sponsorship fund transfer ceremony with Busan Bank and Hyundai Motor Group, who joined the event, will also be held.

Busan City plans to operate two Medical Buses in the first half of this year and add one more in the second half, for a total of three Medical Buses that will directly visit medical vulnerable groups such as day and night care centers throughout Busan to provide medical services.

In January, Busan National University Hospital and Haeundae Bumin Hospital were selected as Medical Bus operating institutions, and additional operators will be selected through a public contest in May.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun said, “The ‘Medical Bus,’ a new integrated care model linking medical care and caregiving, will be a step closer to a 15-minute living zone,” and added, “We expect a new medical healthcare market to open by utilizing advanced ICT to connect the field and hospitals.”

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