09-Feb-18, The Investor
The South Korean government will consolidate medical data from hospitals across the country and establish a comprehensive database, as part of its goal to foster the country’s lucrative pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.
%20MaRSHealthKick_Science%20and%20Technology%20Office%20Seoul.jpg "Korea to build database for medical big data (c) MaRSHealthKick Science and Technology Office Seoul")
Image: MaRSHealthKick / Science and Technology Office Seoul
Its extended vision is to create some 35,000 new jobs in the growing bio and healthcare sector and to pull up the nation’s global market share from the current 1.8 percent to 4 percent by 2022.
As a pilot step, the ministry is to select six major hospitals within the first half of the year and collect genetic and biometric data of some 10 million people to create a bio database on bio information, according to officials.