Gangnam-gu Introduces Integrated Platform Service to Prevent Vaccine Misadministration

Startup Partnership Provides Vaccine Information via QR Code

Lee Jong-cheol, Director of Gangnam-gu Health Center (left), and Kim Hee, CEO of Realtime MediCheck, attending the business agreement ceremony. (Photo by Gangnam-gu Office)

Gangnam-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Jo Seong-myeong) has partnered with the digital healthcare company RealTimeMediCheck Co., Ltd. (CEO Kim Hee) to introduce Seoul's first integrated safe vaccination management platform service.

RealTimeMediCheck is a startup company involved in the regulatory sandbox demonstration project, developing vaccine management and safe care services using mobile QR codes. On the 20th, the district signed a business agreement and will pilot the service for one year. By using this service, vaccine recipients can automatically receive information about the vaccine they are to receive before vaccination.

Service users input their personal information via smartphone before vaccination to generate a personal QR code. Nurses scan the recipient’s personal QR code followed by scanning the QR code attached to the vaccine consecutively. Then, the QR scanning device provides vaccine information via voice and sends a message to the recipient’s smartphone.

The biggest advantage is that both nurses and vaccine recipients are informed about the injection details before vaccination, which helps prevent vaccine misadministration. After vaccination, a self-diagnosis survey is sent to monitor any adverse reactions.

At health centers, vaccination information can be automatically registered in the system through QR scanning, preventing errors from manual registration. Furthermore, it enables real-time vaccine inventory management, advancing beyond the existing system’s vaccine stock control.

District Mayor Jo Seong-myeong stated, “We aim to provide advanced healthcare services by proactively adopting excellent technology from startup companies,” and added, “By enabling residents who previously received vaccinations without knowing the vaccine details to conveniently access this information, we will implement a demand-centered vaccination service.”

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