(Health Korea News / Yoo Ji-in) ‘Medical 24 Hours’ is a corner that shows brief news related to the medical field that is often overlooked in the media. It may seem like trivial news, but it could be valuable information to someone, so I’m only summarizing the facts.
◆ Seoul National University Bundang Hospital signed an MOU with Germany’s VDE to support and develop the Korean medical device industry
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (Director Song Jeong-han) announced on the 11th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the German Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (VDE) for the support and development of the Korean medical device industry. VDE is a testing and certification organization that leads international standardization of major technologies such as electrical, electronic products, and information technology.
The agreement ceremony was held at the VDE Research Institute located in Offenbach, Germany. Key officials, including Lee Hak-jong, director of the Biomedical Research Institute at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, and Sven Öhrke, president of marketing and sales at VDE Research Institute, attended and agreed to cooperate in building an ecosystem to support Korean medical device companies’ entry into the global market.
The two organizations will: ▲Business exchanges to strengthen the utilization of technology owned by both organizations ▲Share medical device regulatory information ▲Cooperate in training and seminars to strengthen medical industry capabilities ▲Conformity assessment cooperation to support compliance with medical device-related regulations ▲Use of medical devices Technology exchange for conformity assessment ▲Conformity assessment support for artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security, etc. ▲Information exchange and support for non-clinical/clinical evaluation of medical devices, etc. We decided to cooperate.
◆Korea Institute of Atomic Energy Medicine, Seoul National University of Science and Technology Graduate School of Medical Sciences opening ceremony
On the 12th, the Korea Institute of Atomic Energy and Medicine held an opening ceremony for the ‘SeoulTech-KIRAMS Graduate School of Medical Sciences’, which is jointly operated with Seoul National University of Science and Technology.
SeoulTech-KIRAMS Graduate School of Medical Sciences is a specialized graduate school established and jointly operated by both organizations to cultivate specialized talent in the field of future convergence research in radiology. Currently, the student selection process is in progress after accepting applications for next year’s new students.
With the opening of the SeoulTech-KIRAMS Graduate School of Medical Sciences, the Korea Medical Center plans to build Korea’s only radiology and biomedical science education and research complex by combining the radiology research infrastructure and the university’s engineering education infrastructure.
◆Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital achieves 4,000 surgical robotic surgeries
The Catholic University of Korea’s Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital Department of Surgery recently achieved 4,000 robotic surgeries and held a commemorative event in front of the cancer center outpatient department on the 3rd floor on the morning of the 12th. The event was attended by Department of Surgery Director Park Soon-cheol, Robotic Surgery Center Director Song Kyo-young, surgical faculty, and medical staff from the outpatient and surgical nursing teams.
Recently, robotic surgery has been used as much as laparoscopy in clinical settings, and Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital has also actively reflected the trend of the times and performed various cancer surgeries using robots. In particular, surgery has the highest ratio of clinical authority required for in-hospital robotic surgery, accounting for 51% of the total clinical authority.
Looking at statistics of up to 4,000 cases, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital successfully performed various high-level surgeries using robots at a relatively even ratio of 33% for hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, 28% for thyroid surgery, 25% for colorectal surgery, and 14% for gastrointestinal surgery. It is evaluated as having arrived. By surgery type rather than by clinical department, there were 1,099 thyroidectomies (thyroid surgery), 896 cholecystectomies (hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery), 839 colorectal cancer surgeries (colorectal surgery), 527 stomach cancer surgeries (gastrointestinal surgery), and 410 pancreatectomies. The most common was cases (hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery).
◆Chonbuk National University Hospital, conducting a campaign to raise awareness of the life-sustaining treatment decision system
Chonbuk National University Hospital announced on the 12th that it had conducted a coffee truck campaign to raise awareness among Jeonbuk residents about the life-sustaining treatment decision system.
This campaign, hosted by the Public Ethics Committee of Chonbuk National University Hospital, provided a coffee truck at the entrance of the health care center, along with an O and The campaign received great response, with over 500 hospital visitors and employees participating.
The life-sustaining treatment decision system is a system that respects the wishes of patients in the process of dying and allows the discontinuation or postponement of medical treatment that only prolongs life without treatment effect, and plays an important role in respecting the patient’s wishes.
According to Article 14, Paragraph 1 of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision Act, in order for a medical institution to make decisions such as discontinuing life-sustaining treatment, a medical institution ethics committee must be established. If installation is difficult, it can be operated through an agreement with the local public ethics committee.
This campaign is part of an effort to help patients and their families better understand the life-sustaining treatment decision system and make appropriate decisions when necessary.
◆Professor Kang Hye-ryeon of Seoul National University Hospital elected as the 10th president of the Korean Society for Pharmacoepidemiological Risk Management
Professor Hye-Ryun Kang of the Department of Allergy at Seoul National University Hospital was elected as the 10th president of the Korean Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and Risk Management (KoPERM). Professor Kang was elected as chairman at the 3rd executive meeting held on October 24, and his term is for two years from January 2025.
The Korean Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and Risk Management is an academic organization established in 2007 to contribute to health improvement through the safe use of medicines. It aims to improve public health and promote patient safety through drug safety and epidemiology research. The society promotes research on drug risks and management and conducts in-depth research through collaboration with domestic and foreign experts. Through academic conferences and research presentations, we have strengthened research cooperation by sharing the latest research results and knowledge among members.
Professor Hye-Ryun Kang serves as a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine, and is leading drug safety research and institutional improvement as head of the allergy department and director of the Drug Safety Center at Seoul National University Hospital. He is actively working in the fields of pharmacovigilance and drug allergy, publishing many research results in domestic and international academic journals. In the meantime, he served as the publishing director, planning director, editorial director, and editor-in-chief of the journal (PeRM) of the Korean Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and Risk Management, and contributed to the development of the society as the 9th senior vice president.
◆Korea University Medical Center received 100 million won in medical development funds from Dokji Min Young-in.
Korea University Medical Center received 100 million won in medical development funds from Dr. Min Young-in.
The donation ceremony was held at MediScience Park on November 11th with key officials in attendance, including Professor Min Young-in, Vice President for Medical Affairs Eul-sik Yoon, Dean of the School of Medicine Pyeon Seong-beom, Director of Medical Planning Division Son Ho-seong, and Director of Medical Research Hak-jun Kim.
Teacher Min Young-in, who is enjoying a peaceful life after retirement, has the value of continuing to share for a better world. So far, he has continued to quietly do good deeds, refusing to explain his detailed history or background on donations.
The teacher’s donations to Korea University, which began in 2004, amount to 920 million won, including the medical development fund, the 100th Anniversary Memorial Hall construction fund, and the business school development fund. In particular, we have continued to donate to the medical center since 2006 for medical education and research. From 2022 to this year, 100 million won was donated for three consecutive years.
◆Professor Seungjun Lee of Konkuk University Hospital received the Korean Society of Hand Surgery Award for Excellence in Academic Excellence
Professor Seungjun Lee of Orthopedics at Konkuk University Hospital received the Academic Excellence Award at the fall conference of the Korean Society of Hand Surgery on the 2nd.
Professor Seungjun Lee received the award in recognition of the excellence of the content related to subluxation of the extensor spinal tendon in his thesis and his significant contribution to the development of the field of hand surgery.
The extensor spinal tendon is a muscle and tendon on the side of the elbow that allows the wrist to be bent and straightened again. Subluxation refers to a condition in which the wrist is not completely dislocated but is only partially dislocated out of its normal position.
The winning paper is ‘The effect of distal ulna morphology on symptomatic extensor spinal tendon subluxation and clinical outcomes of anatomical reconstruction of the extensor spinal tendon accessory tendon sheath.’
This paper found that negative displacement of the ulna was related to symptomatic extensor tendon subluxation, and that the groove depth of the extensor spinal tendon was related to subluxation of the extensor spinal tendon, but did not show a relationship with symptoms. It was confirmed that anatomical reconstruction of the extensor spinal tendon accessory tendon sheath is an effective surgical treatment for symptomatic extensor spinal tendon subluxation.
◆Daejeon Sun Hospital and Sun Dental Hospital hold the 2nd medical citizen lecture with local residents
Sun Hospital Foundation Daejeon Sun Hospital and Sun Dental Hospital are jointly holding the 2nd medical citizen lecture to improve the health of local residents and the community.
In this lecture, there will be two lectures of 30 minutes each (10 minutes for questions and 20 minutes for lectures) on △implant reoperation (implant center specialist Oh Min-seok) and △truths and lies about hyperlipidemia (cardiology specialist Baek Joo-yeol) at Seon Dental Hospital 8 in Jungchon-dong. It will be held on the first floor.
This course was prepared as an additional lecture following the first lecture held last October, thanks to the great response from local residents. This time, we used the YouTube streaming service to make it more accessible to more people. We plan to provide a wider range of useful health information and disease prevention and management methods.
It is open to adults in their 50s or older, and 20 applications will be accepted from the 12th to the 25th. Participation fee is free.
Based on the success of the previous event, Daejeon Sun Hospital is also raising high expectations for this lecture.
◆H+Yangji Hospital provides college entrance exam cheering gifts to the children of medical staff and employees taking the exam.
On the 12th, ahead of the CSAT, H Plus Yangji Hospital presented ‘CSAT cheering gifts’ to 10 medical staff and executives with children of students taking the college entrance exam to wish them success in college.
The hospital said, “We hope that the test takers will pass the exam, and we have included fun amulets for students to wish for success, such as showing off their skills, succeeding in the college entrance exam, and skyrocketing their scores with the ‘Passing Amulet Handmade Caramel.’”
Hospital Director Kim Sang-il encouraged, “I wish the medical staff, employees, and their families’ children great success in their college entrance exams, and as much as they have worked hard so far, I will strongly support them so that their efforts bear fruit.”
◆Professor Dong-Wook Yoon of Chung-Ang University Hospital received the ‘Best Presentation Award’ from the Korean Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Professor Dong-Wook Yoon of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Chung-Ang University Hospital won the ‘Best Presentation Award’ at the 56th Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery in 2024, held from October 31 to November 1. .
At this conference, Professor Dong-wook Yoon presented a research topic that found clinical significance by analyzing the genes of invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma, a relatively rare type of lung cancer. ) was announced and received an award in recognition of its excellence.
In this study, conducted jointly with Professor Cho Jong-ho of Samsung Seoul Hospital and Dr. Su-hyeon Hwang of Lunit, Professor Dong-wook Yoon found that the results of next-generation sequencing (NGS) of mucinous lung cancer patients who underwent surgery showed that when TP53 mutation was present together with KRAS mutation, the patient was disease-free. This study revealed that it is a factor that has a negative impact on survival and overall survival rates.
◆The 24th MediCheck academic conference was successfully completed with the Korea Health Management Association and the Korean Academy of Family Medicine.
In celebration of its 60th anniversary, the Korean Health Care Association held the ’24th MediCheck Academic Conference with the Korean Association of Family Medicine’ at the Seoul Dragon City Hotel on the 7th (Thursday).
This academic conference, held under the theme of ‘The future of medicine and healthcare opened by AI and big data,’ was an in-depth discussion about the innovative changes and possibilities that artificial intelligence and big data technology will bring to the medical and healthcare fields. .
The academic conference began with opening remarks by Chairman Kim In-won of the Korean Association of Health and Family Medicine and Kang Jae-heon, Chairman of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine, and consisted of two symposiums: ‘National Medical Industry Trends’ and ‘Medicine and Healthcare Using AI and Big Data’. It was a time to explore the direction of future medical care through field application cases of AI diagnostic technology and the potential for development of health care services through wearable devices.
◆Inha University Hospital successfully concludes conference to respond to local cardiovascular diseases
The Incheon Area Cardiovascular Disease Center operated by Inha University Hospital successfully concluded the ‘Regional Cardiovascular Disease Center Conference’ in the prevention and management center training room on the 3rd floor of Inha University Hospital on the afternoon of the 8th.
This conference was designed to share the latest knowledge on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and to strengthen cooperation with the local community. Local experts and medical staff gathered together to seek directions for managing cardiovascular diseases.
At Inha University Hospital, Hospital Director Lee Taek, Vice Director Choi Seon-geun (Professor of Surgery), Incheon Area Cardiovascular Disease Center Director Na Jeong-ho (Professor of Neurology), and Director of the Prevention and Management Center Lim Jun (Professor of Prevention and Management) attended the event.
◆Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital received first grade in ‘COPD/TB adequacy evaluation’
The Catholic University of Korea’s Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital announced on the 12th that it received grade 1 in the ‘9th Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Appropriateness Evaluation’ and ‘6th Tuberculosis Appropriateness Evaluation’ recently announced by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.
The 9th Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease adequacy evaluation was conducted on patients aged 40 or older who received outpatient treatment for COPD at 6,339 medical institutions across the country over the past year. The evaluation indicators were conducted through three evaluation indicators and three monitoring indicators, including ▲ lung function test implementation rate, ▲ proportion of patients with continuous visits, and ▲ proportion of patients prescribed inhaled bronchodilators.
As a result of the evaluation, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea received 92.8 points (overall average 69.4 points) in the COPD evaluation and earned first grade for 8 consecutive years, proving that it is an excellent medical institution for COPD management.
The 6th tuberculosis adequacy evaluation was conducted on 505 medical institutions that provided inpatient and outpatient treatment for new tuberculosis patients from January to June last year. The evaluation indicators consisted of four evaluation indicators and one monitoring indicator, including ▲ Mycobacterium tuberculosis confirmation test implementation rate ▲ routine susceptibility test implementation rate ▲ rapid susceptibility test implementation rate ▲ drug prescription daily rate ▲ treatment success rate.
In this evaluation, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea received 98.8 points, which is higher than the overall average of 94.3 points, and has been recognized for its excellence in tuberculosis care by earning the 1st grade consecutively since 2022, when the ratings were made public.
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