KT to Promote Remote Medical Service Business in Vietnam with Mediplus Solution

On the 20th, at the KT Songpa Building in Songpa-gu, Seoul, Seunghyuk Lim, Senior Executive Director of KT Digital & Bio Health Business Division (left), and Yoonjung Bae, CEO of Mediplus Solution (right), are taking a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement.

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-seon] KT announced on the 20th that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mediplus Solution, a healthcare service specialist company, to promote a telemedicine business in Vietnam.

Through this MOU, the two companies agreed to collaborate on jointly planning and developing non-face-to-face patient management services, verifying services through local medical institutions, and expanding telemedicine services for cancer patients in Vietnam.

The initial focus areas of the Vietnam telemedicine platform, which KT plans to launch within this year, are divided into two categories: non-face-to-face cancer patient management and chronic disease management. Mediplus Solution will cooperate on the cancer patient management service. The development of chronic disease management services will be done in collaboration with Huray Positive, with whom KT signed an MOU last May.

Mediplus Solution operates ‘Second Doctor,’ a personalized professional health management solution for cancer patients. The ‘Second Doctor’ service has already conducted numerous clinical studies with major domestic hospitals, securing clinical results that prove the safety and effectiveness of the service.

KT plans to supplement postoperative care, which may be insufficient due to relatively short hospital stays, by utilizing the non-face-to-face telemedicine platform. To this end, KT signed an MOU with the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital last year and decided to proceed with a Proof of Concept (PoC) for service technology verification aimed at postoperative care for the hospital’s patients.

KT plans to create a successful telemedicine case starting in Vietnam and expand its business focusing on global countries such as those in Southeast Asia. In April this year, KT signed an MOU for telemedicine business cooperation with Hanoi Medical University in Vietnam, and it is continuously expanding domestic and international partnerships to further develop the business.

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