Ministry of Health and Welfare Holds 'Medical Data-Centered Hospital' Project Briefing... Focus on Safe Data Utilization

The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on the 7th that it held the '2023 Medical Data-Centered Hospital Support Project Briefing Session' at the Korea Health and Medical Information Service.

Medical data-centered hospitals are a government project that supports the utilization of hospital medical data accumulated through electronic medical records (EMR) and other means for medical research. Currently, 7 consortia and a total of 40 medical institutions are participating.

This year, the Ministry plans to focus on promoting the safe use of medical data by strengthening collaboration between institutions with data research demands and medical data-centered hospitals. Medical data-centered hospitals will establish a demand-customized medical data provision system to support researchers in conveniently utilizing data, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare will operate the 'K-CURE Portal' in the second half of the year to allow viewing of the constructed data in one place and disclose available medical data information on the portal.

Furthermore, to conduct biohealth research such as precision medicine using clinical data from medical data-centered hospitals, core information will be standardized and data quality will be advanced. In particular, information commonly generated by patients such as diagnosis, examination, surgery, and treatment will be standardized in the same format to lay the foundation for activating multi-institutional research.

To meet the demand for medical data utilization from researchers in industry and academia, a joint medical data utilization research project will also be promoted in the first half of the year. This year, 7 research projects will be selected and supported considering researchers' data analysis capabilities and the feasibility and innovativeness of research topics.

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