Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced on Tuesday that it has opened Busan MedTech Lab, a skills training center for medical professionals, in the Centum District of Haeundae-gu, Busan.
The Busan MedTech Lab center will be operated by Aurum Care Management, a healthcare social venture. It aims to actively expand access to advanced medical technology and surgical training infrastructure, which are currently concentrated in the Seoul metro region, to other regions and provide training programs tailored to the needs of local medical professionals
To this end, the center has introduced augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)-based digital simulators to create an immersive training environment, utilizing artificial organs instead of animal testing, thereby enabling more ethical and efficient, future-oriented surgical training.
The Busan MedTech Lab plans to utilize J&J MedTech's representative surgical medical devices, including ECHELON 3000, HARMONIC, VICRYL Plus antimicrobial sutures, and STRATAFIX, along with the orthopedic surgical robot VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution and the 3D pulse arrhythmia treatment solution VARIPULSE Platform, which will be incorporated into the education program.
“The opening of the Busan MedTech Lab will be an important turning point symbolizing a new leap forward for the medical community in Busan and South Gyeongsang Province,” said Professor Kim Min-chan of Dong-A University Hospital, who attended its opening ceremony last Friday. “I hope that through more advanced surgical skills education, the level of medical care in the region will improve and medical cooperation between local hospitals will be activated.”
Oh Jin-yong, North Asia Regional Director of Johnson & Johnson MedTech, remarked, “Busan is a city with sufficient potential as an Asian medical hub, having surpassed 30,000 foreign medical tourists last year. Through the Busan MedTech Lab, we will support the improvement of surgical skills among medical professionals in the Busan and South Gyeongsang Province and expand our efforts to other regions in the future to foster the growth and collaboration of the regional medical ecosystem.”