"Collecting Health Data from Citizens Outside Hospitals... Pukyong National University Envisions a Busan-Style Healthcare City"

Expert Seminar on Digital Healthcare Data City


Exploring Strategies for Building a Busan-Style Database and Utilizing AI

The initiative to create a Busan-style digital healthcare city by collecting citizens' health and lifestyle data outside of hospitals has commenced.

On August 11, Pukyong National University announced that it held the second expert advisory seminar for the "Busan Active Senior Data Integration and Utilization-Based Digital Healthcare City Development Project" at the Asti Hotel in Busan.

This seminar was designed to further advance the project's planning, which is primarily led by Busan Metropolitan City and Pukyong National University, and to establish a Busan-style healthcare database and strategies for the utilization of artificial intelligence.

Experts from Busan Metropolitan City, Pukyong National University, Busan Institute, Busan Technopark, Kosin University Gospel Hospital, Zeroweb Co., Ltd., Chante Healthcare Co., Ltd., and Mediplexus Co., Ltd. are participating as planning committee members for the project. Collaboration among industry, academia, hospitals, research institutes, and government is shaping the concrete blueprint for the Busan-style digital healthcare data city.

Participants of the Busan Digital Healthcare Data City Development Project Expert Seminar.

At the seminar, Professor Kwon Chan-Young from Dong-Eui University Korean Medicine Hospital, Professor Choi Sunhan from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Ewha Womans University, and Professor Baek Seungje from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST attended as invited experts.

Professor Kwon Chan-Young proposed the construction of a community-based living lab for the continuous collection of real-world data (RWD) generated in citizens' everyday lives, under the theme "Community-Based RWD Collection Strategy to Build the Busan Digital Healthcare Ecosystem."

Professors Choi Sunhan and Baek Seungje provided advice on technical design directions for the collection, processing, and analysis of digital healthcare data, as well as for the application of artificial intelligence.

Pukyong National University plans to develop concrete core healthcare data items and database design directions that Busan should prioritize, based on expert input.

The university will establish systems for data standardization, cleansing, and de-identification, specify the allocation of roles across institutions and governance models, and reflect a Busan-style data utilization model in the project report that links medical, health, welfare, and lifestyle data to AI analysis and citizen-centric services.

Professor Lee Byung-Il of Pukyong National University (Head of the BK21 Project for Customized Smart Healthcare for Seniors, Department of Human Bio Convergence) explained, "The key to a Busan-style digital healthcare data city is to safely and reliably connect health and lifestyle data generated in citizens' daily lives, as well as hospital data."

Professor Lee emphasized, "We will create a unique digital healthcare data utilization model for Busan and further expand it into national R&D projects and citizen-centric services in the future."

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