Korea working with UAE, Saudi for medical services
25-Feb-16, Business Korea
The Korean government is striving to export Korea’s advanced medical technology and systems to the Middle East by means of inter-government cooperation. In this context, Minister of Health & Welfare Jeong Jin-yeop visited Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between February 20 and 23.
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In Saudi Arabia, the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, SK Telecom and ezCaretech have been engaged in a hospital information system project worth approximately 70 billion won since 2014 in a contract with six hospitals under the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard. In addition, they are moving ahead with a similar project in 300 or so regional hospitals affiliated with the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia.
The transfer of the Samsung Medical Center’s Avatar System is around the corner, too. This system is a genome-based precision medicine platform, and the Samsung Medical Center recently completed working-level talks for the technology transfer with the King Fahad Medical City.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Health & Welfare of Korea and the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia signed another framework of cooperation on February 22 for the purpose of practical and systematic cooperation in the fields including hospital information system construction, health insurance and infectious disease response.