Korea Health Industry Development Institute Holds Award Ceremony for 'Public Data Utilization Idea Contest'

The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) announced on the 1st that it held the award ceremony for the '2023 KHIDI Public Data Utilization Idea Contest' at its Osong headquarters on the 30th of last month.

At the 2023 KHIDI Public Data Utilization Idea Contest Awards Ceremony, Cha Sun-do, President of the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (center), and the awardees are taking a commemorative photo.
[Photo by Korea Health Industry Development Institute]

This contest was promoted to raise public interest in health industry public data and to discover creative ideas and business models utilizing public data, thereby creating quality jobs and social value.

The institute selected the final winners after document and presentation evaluations of a total of 49 submitted ideas: ▲1 Grand Prize ▲2 Excellence Awards ▲3 Merit Awards. Prize money of 3 million KRW for the Grand Prize, 1 million KRW for the Excellence Awards, and 500,000 KRW for the Merit Awards was also awarded.

The Grand Prize was awarded to the food nutrition component analysis application (app) for nutritionally imbalanced adolescents, ‘Sik’pumat-i’. The two Excellence Awards were given to ▲a personalized health service information proposal plan ▲a comprehensive health guide for stroke patients using public medical and personal health data ▲the communication app service 'Di-stroke'. The three Merit Awards went to ▲a customized emergency room assignment network by patient severity using Pre-KTAS ▲the customized medical service recommendation and design app for foreign tourists 'K-medi Planner' ▲and the expansion of elderly-friendly categories through prescribed exercise.

The Grand Prize winner, ‘Sik’pumat-i’, is an Android app that manages adolescents’ nutritional intake by analyzing nutrition labels based on public data such as national nutrition statistics and food nutrition component databases. Bae Chan-woo and Joo Yong-han, who proposed and developed the app and won the Grand Prize, said, “We developed the app to solve obesity problems caused by excessive dieting and nutritional imbalance among adolescents by utilizing public data. We have gained confidence for greater challenges and plan to supplement and launch the app based on the judges’ feedback.”

Cha Soon-do, president of the institute, said, “This contest provided an opportunity to emphasize the importance of public data and share the importance of creativity and innovation. We will continue to open high-quality public data that meets the public’s data demand and lead efforts to create social value and innovate the health industry through continuous support for data utilization.”

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