(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.
◆Kyung Hee Medical Center’s ‘Proposal’ won the Korea Communication Grand Prize
Kyung Hee Medical Center won the Korea Clean Contents National Movement Chairman’s Award in the electronic newsletter (webzine) category at the 34th 2024 Korea Communication Awards ceremony held at the Korea Press Center International Conference Hall on the 21st.
Kyung Hee Medical Center, founded in March 1981, is being published in parallel as a print newsletter and an electronic newsletter (webzine) in keeping with changes in the media environment, and has also added a mobile access function through QR code insertion to increase accessibility for readers. In addition, ▲’Best Partner/Good Doctor’, which sheds light on the honest lives of medical staff and easily conveys the specialty, ▲’A Joyful Time’ to look back on the history of Kyung Hee Medical Center ▲’Healing Feeling’, which introduces walking paths around the hospital ▲ We have created a ‘Donation Story’ containing interviews with donors to provide warmth and We are trying to convey softness.
◆Chonbuk National University Hospital signs business agreement with Innosis Co., Ltd.
Chonbuk National University Hospital signed a business agreement with Innosis Co., Ltd. on the 18th, and began cooperation to develop carbon material implants and enter the global medical device market.
This agreement focuses on establishing a cooperation system that covers the entire cycle from development to verification of carbon material medical devices, centered around the Global Innovative Medical Technology Demonstration Support Center and the Carbon Material Medical Device Development Support Center at Chonbuk National University Hospital.
Attending the agreement ceremony were Innosys CEO Jeong Joo-mi, Executive Director Hwang Seong-cheol, Business Division Manager Jeong Hyo-cheol, Chonbuk National University Hospital’s Carbon Material Medical Device Development Support Center Director Han Gap-soo, and Global Innovative Medical Technology Verification Support Center Deputy Center Director Ko Jong-hyeon, who confirmed their willingness to cooperate with each other.
◆Seoul National University Hospital holds a joint briefing session on excellent biohealth technology… spurring technology commercialization
Seoul National University Hospital successfully completed the ‘2024 Consortium Excellent Technology Performance Exchange & Partnering Event’ at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Healthcare Innovation Park on the 21st. The consortium introduced the healthcare technology discovered by it to healthcare companies and explored opportunities for technology transfer, commercialization, and follow-up joint research.
Last April, Seoul National University Hospital formed a consortium with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and Kyungpook National University’s Industry-Academic Research Group and was selected as the implementing agency for the ‘2024 Biohealth Clinical Site Link Technology Commercialization Platform Support Project’. This project is a project in which the Korea Health Industry Development Institute supports the discovery of excellent technologies in the health and medical field, technology marketing, technology transfer and commercialization, etc., with an amount of approximately 360 million won per consortium.
The Seoul National University Hospital consortium selected three major research areas (regenerative medicine, precision medicine, and medical robots) based on the research capabilities of each institution, focusing on ▲discovering and upgrading excellent technologies ▲discovering companies in demand ▲technology marketing ▲technology commercialization and Joint cooperation is continuing in areas such as support for start-ups. As a result, to date, 77 promising technologies have been discovered, 54 in-demand technologies have been discovered, and 11 technology commercialization collaborations have been achieved.
◆Professor Hyunil Lee of Ilsan Paik Hospital received the ‘Excellent Academic Award’ from the Korean Society of Orthopedic Ultrasound
Professor Hyunil Lee of the Department of Orthopedics at Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital received the Academic Excellence Award at the ‘Korean Orthopedic Ultrasound Society Fall Conference’ held at the Yugwangsa Hall of Korea University College of Medicine on the 17th.
Professor Hyunil Lee received this academic excellence award for his research on ‘Ultrasound diagnosis of glomerular tumors occurring on the palmar side of the fingers.’
In this study, Professor Hyunil Lee presented several cases of glomerular tumors that occurred on the palm (palm side), which were difficult to diagnose through ultrasound, and was recognized for his contribution to accurate ultrasound diagnosis and surgical treatment.
◆Park Sang-gu, a clinical pathologist at Konkuk University Hospital, received an academic award from the Korean Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Research Society.
Konkuk University Hospital neurosurgery clinical pathologist Park Sang-gu was selected as the best presentation and received an academic award at the 11th Korean Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Research Society regular conference and workshop. This conference was hosted by the Korean Neurosurgical Research Foundation and hosted by the Korean Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Research Society and was held at Korea University’s Hana Square Auditorium on the 26th.
The winning paper is ‘Enhancing surgical precision: a novel electromyography finding for confident identification of the root exit zone during microvascular decompression surgery.’
Microvascular decompression surgery is performed on the facial nerve, and it is important to accurately identify and treat the central facial nerve, not other nerves.
Professor Park Kwan’s research team, including clinical pathologist Sang-gu Park, conducted precise intraoperative surveillance tests and confirmed that unique electromyography waveforms were observed only in the central facial nerve.
◆Daejeon Sun Hospital holds the 2024 ‘QI Academic Conference’
On the 21st, Daejeon Sun Hospital of the Sun Hospital Foundation held the ’27th QI Academic Conference’ to improve medical quality and patient safety at the Daejeon Sun Hospital annex auditorium.
QI (Quality Improvement) activity is an activity in which several members come together to improve work processes and systems by finding activity topics that require improvement during work. The QI conference is an event to share QI-related results conducted by each department of Daejeon Sun Hospital over the past year.
On this day, 13 teams selected according to the priority of QI topics for 2024 participated, and the final competition review was conducted, including quarterly plan reports and interim activity reports conducted over the past year. A poster of the 2024 excellent indicator management department was displayed.
◆Hallym Burns Foundation receives $3,000 donation from a member of Lim Young-woong’s fan club ‘Heroic Age’
On the 18th, the Hallym Burn Foundation received a donation of $3,000 (about 4.2 million won) from an individual member of singer Lim Young-woong’s fan club ‘Hero Generation’ to support pediatric burn patients.
At the donation ceremony held at Doheon Hall on the 4th floor of the new building of Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym Burn Foundation Chairman Heo Jun (Director of Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital), Secretary General Choi Jong-gil (Administrative Director of Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital), and donor Hero Generation Gray member (Lee Byung-nam) 20 fan club members, including Mr.
The donation will be used for the Hallym Burn Foundation’s rehabilitation treatment project for pediatric burn patients.
◆ H Plus Yangji Hospital holds orthopedic training course
H Plus Yangji Hospital held its third training lecture this year on the 21st under the theme of ‘Orthopedic Diseases’. This course was conducted at a nearby private practice and included lectures on orthopedic diseases commonly seen in outpatient clinics and content related to artificial intelligence medicine.
The ‘H Plus Yangji Hospital Training Lecture’, which was held with about 30 local specialists and private practitioners participating, was moderated by Hyeong-jo Yoon (orthopedic specialist), head of the medical department, and Hwi-soo Jeong, head of the training department (specialist in family medicine).
The program covers shoulder diseases commonly seen in outpatient clinics (orthopedics specialist Lee Myeong-geun), knee diseases (orthopedics specialist Lee Yong-jun), hand diseases (Noh Yeon-tae, head of the Spine and Joint Center) and artificial intelligence and medical care (artificial intelligence and medical care, which are the key drivers of future medical care). It was held with a total of four sessions, including laboratory medicine specialist Koo Se-eun, as well as questions and answers from local hospitals and clinics and specialists who participated in the lecture.
The orthopedics-related lecture included content on hand and shoulder joint diseases, and degenerative arthritis of the knee, while the artificial intelligence and medical session covered content on cases of artificial intelligence use in the medical field and the role and changes of hospitals in the generative AI era.
◆ Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital received first grade in ‘Depression Outpatient Appropriateness Evaluation’
The Catholic University of Korea’s Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital announced on the 22nd that it received grade 1 in the ‘2nd Depression Outpatient Appropriateness Evaluation’ recently announced by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.
This evaluation was conducted on 4,114 medical institutions nationwide that treated new outpatient patients with depression aged 18 or older from January to June 2023. The Catholic University of Korea’s Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital received 100 points (overall average 47 points) and was recognized as an excellent medical institution for treating depression.
The evaluation is based on four evaluation indicators, including ▲ rate of repeat visits within 3 weeks after the first visit, ▲ rate of 3 or more visits within 8 weeks of the first visit, ▲ rate of initial evaluation of depressive symptoms, ▲ rate of reevaluation of depressive symptoms, and ▲ rate of continuation of antidepressant prescriptions for more than 84 days ▲ rate of antidepressant prescriptions for 180 days. This was conducted through two monitoring indicators, including the continuation rate of abnormal prescriptions.
◆Myongji Hospital, ‘2024 Hi-FIRST Symposium’ successfully completed
Myongji Hospital held the ‘2024 Hi-FIRST Symposium’ in the main auditorium on the 7th floor of Building C on the afternoon of the 21st.
This event, which marks its 9th anniversary this year, has been held every year since the QI competition, which has been running since 2003, was upgraded to the next level in 2016 with the purpose of improving medical quality, raising patient safety awareness, and sharing the performance of patient safety activities.
The symposium was held in the following order: ▲Hi-FIRST Symposium Progress Report (Song Chang-eun, Director of Appropriate Care Management) ▲Oral presentation (work process improvement, patient safety, TFT) ▲Panel discussion ▲Intermediate field survey of 4th cycle certification follow-up activities ▲General review.
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