Coreline Soft said on Friday that inquiries for its AVIEW Pseudomyzation Sever are increasing in response to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announcement to strengthen medical data security policies.

While the digitalization of the medical industry has advanced the quality of medical services,  there are mounting concerns in the medical community concerning the leakage of patient personal data.

Accordingly, the ministry announced plans to bolster data security in handling medical data earlier this month.

In particular, the MOHW acknowledged efforts to secure healthcare data needed to safely pseudonymize and actively utilize medical devices using artificial intelligence software.

The ministry also pointed out that efforts should be made to prevent image reconstruction techniques, which can lead to the identification of the individual.

In this regard, the MOHW clarified the criteria for “pseudonymization of image information” through the revision of the Healthcare Data Guidelines last year. 

It states that physical features that can identify a specific individual in an image should be deleted, mosaiced, or surface edges should be removed.

To address this issue, Coreline Soft’s AVIEW Pseudonymization Server program is prepared, said a company official.

Pseudonymization is a data management technique to remove identification features within a data record by replacing them with one or more artificial identifiers.

Specifically, AVIEW Pseudonymization Server is a medical data pseudonymization processing and management solution. It can pseudonymize patient information in medical data including CT and MRI reflecting standard guidelines. 

It also pseudonymizes the patient's body surface so that it cannot be identified as a specific person and provides a wide range of services to store and manage pseudonymized data.

"Currently, the program has been introduced and used at Korea University Ansan Hospital, Konyang University Hospital, and the Data Science Research Department at Seoul National University Hospital, ” said an official from Coreline Soft.