A representative is taking a commemorative photo at the opening ceremony of the Eco Delta Smart Village Wellness Center.
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Kosin University Gospel Hospital opened a Wellness Center on the 14th at Busan EDC (Eco Delta City).
At the opening ceremony, Kosin University Gospel Hospital Director Oh Kyung-seung, Eco Delta Project Director Lee Sang-jong, Busan Gangseo-gu Mayor Noh Ki-tae, Viva Innovation CEO Park Han, and Seowoo CEO Lee Seo-yeon attended. The ceremony included an introduction to the Wellness Center and a demonstration of non-face-to-face medical consultations.
The Busan EDC Wellness Center is a project under the "Busan Eco Delta Smart Village Private Company Innovative Technology" led by the Korea Water Resources Corporation.
The center, completed on December 31 last year, is a health management center based on the living lab concept responsible for managing the health of Smart Village residents.
The "Smart Village" is a space where residents can directly experience various smart services integrating IoT (Internet of Things) convergence technology in a complex of 56 detached houses established within the Busan National Pilot City.
Residents live free of charge for five years, paying only management fees, and participate in living lab programs to experience and improve the innovative technologies applied within the complex.
A Living Lab refers to a laboratory (Lab) conducting research in a space where citizens actually live (Living).
Temporarily exempted from regulations, it enables non-face-to-face medical consultations and collaborative treatments that were difficult to conduct in the private sector, allowing the full integration of smart healthcare in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The Busan EDC Wellness Center provides medical services necessary for non-face-to-face primary collaborative treatment operated by Kosin University Gospel Hospital and Viva Innovation.
Nurses from Kosin University Gospel Hospital are stationed on-site to monitor the health status of Smart Village residents and actively participate in disease treatment and prevention activities through non-face-to-face consultations with medical staff at Kosin University Hospital.
For users requiring additional collaboration between residents and medical staff, secondary collaborative treatment is conducted in an independent space that protects privacy.
The non-face-to-face secondary collaborative treatment is conducted based on measurements from body composition analyzers, blood pressure monitors, blood glucose meters, and the Bitcare Plus non-face-to-face collaborative treatment system by Bit Computer, a healthcare specialist company.
Director Oh Kyung-seung said, "As this is the first smart healthcare demonstration project attempted in Korea, the win-win partnership between local medical institutions and private companies is important."
He added, "The significance of this project lies in building a sustainable digital healthcare safety net while being able to demonstrate medical technologies that were previously restricted by regulations."
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