10-Sep-17 Korean tech startup Sky Labs has set out to increase early detection of arrhythmia, or an irregular heartbeat, with a smart ring that continuously tracks a person’s pulse with high precision and stability. [image: Park Hyun-koo / The Korea Herald]

05-Sep-17 Samsung, Gangnam Severance Hospital, and content maker FNI Co have joined forces to develop virtual reality tools to diagnose and treat mental illness. The companies plan to make the product available for hospitals, dementia centers and schools.

04-Sep-17 In 2017 Korea granted 1,560 medical institutions licenses to treat foreign patients, nearly half the 2,840 in 2016. 1,515 institutions did not seek a license because they failed to meet new strengthened safety requirements. [image: IMTJ]

04-Sep-17 Korea's LG CNS has been selected to establish Bahrain’s new national health insurance system, which will allow Bahrain to monitor people’s medical costs, prescriptions, medical treatment appropriateness and the like, in real time. [image: Business Korea]

01-Sep-17 The Korean population aged 65 and over has exceeded the population aged 14 and under for the first time, marking a change in how healthcare services and facilities will need to be prioritised in the future. [image: Business Korea]