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◆Konkuk University Hospital earned Grade A as an emergency medical institution for two consecutive years
Konkuk University Hospital received the highest grade, A grade, for two consecutive years in the ‘2024 Emergency Medical Institution Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Konkuk University Hospital recorded perfect scores in five evaluation indicators, including ▲ confidence level in patient classification, ▲ length of stay for patients with severe symptoms, and ▲ final treatment provision rate.
This evaluation was conducted on 408 emergency medical institutions nationwide, including regional emergency medical centers and regional emergency medical centers. To improve the quality of emergency medical services, the Ministry of Health and Welfare conducts emergency medical institution evaluations every year for regional emergency medical centers, regional emergency medical centers, and local emergency medical institutions across the country.
Based on this achievement, Konkuk University Hospital plans to continue efforts to further improve the quality of emergency medical services.
◆SCL Chairman Lee Sang-chun makes a generous donation to the National Cancer Center
The National Cancer Center announced on January 7 that SCL Chairman Lee Sang-chun donated 50 million won. Chairman Lee Sang-chun has continued to donate to the National Cancer Center since 2012 and has donated a total of 350 million won to date. The total donation, including this donation, amounts to 400 million won.
This delivery ceremony was attended by Chairman Lee Sang-chun, SCL President Lee Chang-seop, National Cancer Center Director Yang Han-gwang, and Kwak Ho-sin, Dean of the National Cancer Center International Graduate School of Cancer Graduate School.
Chairman Lee Sang-chun decided to make this donation in order to expand the scale of sponsorship for 2025 and contribute to research and treatment support to overcome cancer.
◆Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, and Boramae Hospital establish a CDM data integrated management platform
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, and Seoul Boramae Hospital have established a joint research platform that can view and analyze integrated data from the three institutions with a single access.
Last month, Seoul National University Hospital, along with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and Seoul Boramae Hospital, established an ‘integrated CDM platform’ by gathering together the common data model (CDM) that had been independently managed by each institution. CDM refers to a data model that standardizes medical data such as medical records, prescriptions, and test results held by each medical institution into a standardized structure.
The ‘Integrated CDM Platform’ is a research platform that integrates CDM data from three institutions at Seoul National University Hospital and can utilize massive medical data of approximately 6.85 million people. In order to increase the value of medical data utilization and create a joint research environment, it was built over a period of approximately one year from November 2023 to December 2024. This is an expanded development based on SNUHUB (Seoul National University Hospital Big Data Platform) previously operated by Seoul National University Hospital.
Until now, the three organizations had each operated CDM data of the same standard. Because each institution managed data independently, it was difficult for researchers to access data from other institutions, which limited the ability to conduct large-scale analysis or research collaboration.
The integrated CDM platform regularly synchronizes the anonymized databases of the three institutions, allowing researchers to track visit occurrences, condition occurrences, procedure occurrences, drug exposures, and tests with a single access. You can safely and effectively view and analyze the latest CDM data such as Measurement. In particular, this platform provides large-scale data that integrates the characteristics of patient groups from different institutions, reducing variation in analysis and improving research reliability.
◆Korea University College of Medicine Vaccine Innovation Center holds a 2025 vaccine expert training program
Korea University College of Medicine’s Vaccine Innovation Center (Director Jeong Hee-jin, hereinafter referred to as the Vaccine Innovation Center) will hold the 2025 Vaccine Expert Training Program from Tuesday the 14th to Friday the 17th in the international remote conference room of Korea University’s Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall.
The Vaccine Innovation Center has been operating a training program to train domestic vaccine experts every year since 2023, and this training was designed for vaccine-related workers such as health care workers, researchers, and public officials, as well as graduate students interested in vaccinology. In addition, we aim to strengthen our country’s human infrastructure to prepare for future new variants of infectious diseases by nurturing vaccine experts with a diverse understanding of vaccinology.
The program lasts for four days and is an advanced course in mRNA vaccine research and development and an advanced vaccine clinical trial course. Lectures will be given by key faculty members, including Professor Kim Woo-joo of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Korea University School of Medicine, Professor Cheon Byeong-cheol of the Department of Preventive Medicine, and Professor Kim Cheol-woo of the Department of Microbiology. In addition, key lectures by experts from government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and related companies are scheduled.
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