16-Mar-18, The Korea Bizwire
From regular checkups to medical counseling, scores of municipal governments across Korea are adopting mobile health technology in a bid to improve public health.
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The city government of Gimhae is among the 70 local governing bodies that have adopted a mobile health center system as part of a joint initiative with the Ministry of Health and the Korea Health Promotion Foundation.
The new service consists of a smartphone app offering health checkups, medical analysis and counseling to anyone in the community aged between 20 and 50.