A Korean physician recently set the world’s record by obtaining the most medical board certifications, according to the World Record Academy. It goes to Dr. Shin Jyun-hoon, a specialist in preventive cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the U.S.Shin is also a clinician in health care system at Harvard Medical School and VA Boston.After graduating Yonsei University College of Medic
Eight out of 10 nurses overwork in three shifts per day but only 20 percent of them request overtime pay, a survey showed.The health and medical workers’ union under the Korean Confederation of Trade Union on Monday unveiled its fact-finding survey on nurses’ extra labor in three shifts.The medical workers’ union surveyed from June to October on nurses working in three shifts at Kangwon Na
Kyunghee University Hospital in Gangdong (KUHG), southeastern Seoul, said it has digitalized all the informing procedures for patients to promote convenience.For the first time in Korea, the hospital has launched a mobile application where patients can check information such as the outpatient clinic, hospitalization, and surgery on their smartphones, it said. KUHG unveiled its Smart Gu
Koreans are probably misusing and abusing tramadol-based pain relievers, requiring an across-the-board factual survey, an anesthesiologist said Wednesday.Kim Gunn-hee, a physician at the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the National Medical Center, said that medications using tramadol as a major ingredient had the side effects most frequently reported to the NMC’s drug safety
Things once considered impossible until a distant future is becoming a reality with the help of Artificial Intelligence.Sejong Mediplex Hospital, located in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, introduced the “AEGIS” (cardiac Arrest Early warning alGorithm In Sejong hospital), an AI program which can predict cardiac arrests, in July. AEGIS was a coproduct of Sejong Mediplex and a startup company named VUNO Ko
Find dust affects not only respiratory organs but circulatory, nerve systems and pediatric diseases, and therefore the government should come up with drastic steps to reduce it, experts said Wednesday.At an academic forum jointly organized by National Academy of Medicine of Korea (NAMOK)대한민국의학한림원, the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK)한국공학한림원, and the Korean Academy of Science and
South Korea’s nursing shortage should be tackled by a state intervention with the government making detailed plans and managing them in the long run, an expert said Tuesday.“We’re having a problem in the supply of nurses because the government failed to set up detailed healthcare plans and manage related workers,” said Park So-young박소영, a professor at Shinhan University’s College of Nursing, d
Ordinary citizens need to raise their awareness about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other similar techniques to increase the survival rate of people with heart arrests, experts said Thursday.“A first witness plays a significant role in treating cardiac arrest patients with the ‘golden time,’ which refers to four minutes after the occurrence,” said Professor Hwang Seong-oh황성오 of Yonse
More than 60 percent of employees working at medical institutions have been exposed to unreasonable demands or verbal violence from patients and their guardians, a survey showed Tuesday.Kong Sun-young, a research fellow at the Social Health Research Institute, presented the study at a forum on how to help medical workers deal with emotional labor at the National Assembly.Her survey was
Almost half of nurse assistants in South Korea receive minimum wages or less, a recent survey showed. And three out of every 10 nurse aides with more than 10 years of working experience earn minimum wages, it showed.Hong Jeong-min홍정민, a labor attorney, presented the survey results at a National Assembly forum Wednesday, aimed to discuss how to improve working conditions for practical nurse
The government will increase medical fees to make up for losses caused by expanding the insurance coverage, as part of its measure to ease resistance from the medical community to the “Moon Jae-in care.”“We will never push for the Moon care in ways to aggravate the present situation,” said Sohn Young-rae손영래, director of the Healthcare Policy Division of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. “We
The government should establish a state-run body to efficiently manage big data for the healthcare industry, an expert said.“There should be an integrated system to collect data from various institutions and manage them,” Professor Lee Joong-won이중원 at the department of philosophy at University of Seoul said Wednesday in a debate at the Westin Chosun on Wednesday.“The government has to make
Medical bills not covered by insurance account for 10 percent of healthcare expenses paid to public hospitals, a report shows.The finding was part of the report titled “”A study to work out the management plan of effective medical cost operation,” commissioned on the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMS)대한의학회 by Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA)건강보험심사평가원.As the result
Working conditions for Korean nurses have changed little from a decade ago, according to a report released by Korean Nurses Association (KNA)대한간호협회 announced Tuesday.The report has analyzed the results of the survey on the status of hospital nurses from 2007 to 2016 conducted by Hospital Nurses Association (HNA)병원간호사회 and found their separation rate stood at 15.7 percent last year, only 1.3 pe
Myongji Hospital, which has emerged as the “icon of medical innovation,” is seeking another reform. Next month, it will introduce “Smart ICU,” the next-generation intensive care unit as seen in advanced countries. The Smart ICU is composed of isolated single rooms to cope with another MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) breakup and minimizes infectious factors by installing wires of medic
Korea Train eXpress (KTX) has shortened the Seoul-Busan travel time to two hours, reducing the whole nation to a one-day life zone. Thanks to the KTX that started its service in 2004, Daejeon has long become a commutable area with an hour’s ride, and Busan and Gwangju, which used to require an overnight stay, have also become one-day courses of a trip.KTX has not just altered everyday life but
Actor You A-in, who reportedly had suffered from osteocystoma, became a patient of osteosarcoma which is cancer, at some point.Osteocystoma is a benign tumor of bone, and patients have only to observe proceedings without special treatment. If they feel pain or a fracture occurs, patients undergo surgery to remove it. On the other hand, Osteosarcoma, a malignant tumor, is cancer and patients sh
Private insurance companies make requests for “medical advice” related to insurance payment to only specific hospitals and doctors, and don’t pay money in nine of 10 cases based on such advice, an expert says.And that causes an increasing number of consumers to apply for remedy, he noted.The expert made these and other points at a seminar Wednesday hosted by Korea Consumer Agency (KCA)한국소비