Is the Korean public ready for data-driven healthcare?
25-Sep-17, Korea Biomedical Review
Medical professionals are looking into new perspectives to data-driven healthcare, such as precision medicine, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. Are the public ready to accept these services, too?
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Academics and doctoral students at the 2017 EIBLE-KHIDI International Conference voiced out that rising costs, chronic illness, an aging population and a shortage of professionals are making healthcare payers and providers turn to data and analytics.
Lee Mang-yeong, a PhD student in digital health at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Health Sciences & Technology said it is necessary to ensure high protection in accessing, using and sharing data, and to help participants to have a positive attitude to the study. "There are many studies about public awareness toward cancer clinical trials, particularly genetic testing... Although we can guess the public awareness toward precision medicine from these studies, there is no progress in Korea."