Korea’s healthcare system has already begun to collapse. To prevent further collapse, it is necessary to ban mixed care, abolish physician incentives, and introduce the family doctor system, an expert said.Lee Kyu-shik, director of the Korea Institute for Healthcare & Welfare Policy, made these and
Screening for hepatitis C has been confirmed as more cost-effective than not conducting it.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDA) said Friday it would introduce a national health screening program for hepatitis C based on such findings. In addition, it released the result of a study
The Rare Disease Management Act, which includes “genetic counseling” in projects helped by rare disease support centers, has passed the plenary session of the National Assembly.After the passage, experts pointed out that efforts should follow to recognize genetic counseling as a medical practice. Th
The Ministry of Health and Welfare, which launches a pilot project for telemedicine Thursday with no set time frame, aims to institutionalize it within the 21st National Assembly’s term that has about a year left.Regarding why the pilot project fee was set at 130 percent of the existing fee, ministr
The overall number of deliveries in Korea has dropped by more than 180,000 in the past decade but the number of deliveries to mothers in their 40s has surged by more than 40 percent, a lawmaker’s data showed. Rep. Shin Hyun-young of the main opposition Democratic Party recently released data on baby
The government should use the national pension fund to strengthen public healthcare, union leaders said Wednesday.Such an argument was made at a debate co-organized by Rep. Koh Young-in of the opposition Democratic Party of Korea, the Korean Health and Medical Workers Union (KHMU), the Korean Public
As a result of analyzing non-face-to-face treatment conducted from February 2020 to September 2022, the department with the lowest rate of first-time treatment was psychiatry, with 3 percent, and the highest was dermatology, with 26 percent.Rep. Shin Hyun-young of the opposition Democratic Party of
Four medical institutions in Daegu will be subject to administrative measures related to a female teenager’s death in an ambulance after failing to accept the patient on March 19.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday it would take administrative steps on four emergency care hospitals amon
Korean researchers have developed artificial intelligence that predicts lung function based on computed tomography (CT) test results with an accurate rate of 90 percent or higher.Two Asan Medical Center (AMC) professors – Lee Se-won of the pulmonary department and Kim Nam-kook of the convergence med
First-time patients in non-face-to-face treatment introduced temporarily to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic accounted for 9 percent of the total telemedicine services provided.Besides, the share of first-time patients in non-contract care was highest in the dermatology department, with 26 percent.Sh
The Ministry of Health and Welfare expressed an intention to advance the discussion to increase the medical school enrollment quota with the Korean Medical Association at the Medical Affairs Council, a consultative body on medical issues.Song Yang-soo, director of the ministry’s Medical Personnel Po
To detect danger signals quickly that could lead to suicide, including depression, and provide treatment, mental health checkups will be conducted every two years like physical health checkups.The government finalized the “Firth Suicide Prevention Basic Plan (2023-2027) at a meeting of the Suicide P
The Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to reinvigorate regenerative medicine by expanding high-technology regenerative medicine to neighborhood clinics and diversifying diseases subject to such studies, a ministry official said. The official forecast is that clinics can provide regenerative proced
One in every two severe emergency patients has not been able to arrive in the emergency room within the golden time in the past five years, according to a lawmaker.Rep. Choi Hye-young of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea said so Tuesday based on her analysis of data at the National Medic
Seven government agencies under the wing of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, including the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) and the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), will join forces for the support of K-Health’s advance overseas.On Tuesday, the ministry held a ceremony
Despite widespread expectations, the amendment bill to Medical Services Act aimed at allowing non-face-to-face treatment has failed to cross the threshold of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee’s subcommittee.Industry insiders attributed the failure to lawmakers’ doubts about deciding
As the National Assembly discusses institutionalizing non-face-to-face treatment, doctor-turned-lawmaker Rep. Shin Hyun-young of the opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) also proposed an amendment bill, increasing the possibility of its early introduction.The content of the revision bill to th
Following the Moon Jae-in government, the Yoon Suk Yeol administration also emphasizes the need to promote the bio-industry. Still, there is a shortage of workers who jump into this field, experts pointed out Friday.That and other issues were discussed during the “5th K-Life & Bio Forum” held at the
Some 13.79 million people in Korea received non-face-to-face treatment allowed temporarily to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. Neighborhood clinics provided 86 percent of non-contact services, and 81.5 percent of people who used such services were returning patients.On Sunday, the Ministry of Health
Koreans with chronic kidney disease and their medical expenses more than doubled over the past decade, a report said.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) released the report, “Information on the prevention and management of chronic kidney disease for my family and me,” on Wednesday