(Medical 24 Hours) Professor Ji-soo Kim of the Department of Neurology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, published a review paper in ‘JAMA Neurology’

The research team of Professor Ji-soo Kim of the Department of Neurology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital announced on the 1st that they have published a comprehensive review paper (review paper) on ‘clinical syndrome causing dizziness, double vision, and visual abnormalities due to autoimmune disorders’ in ‘JAMA Neurology’, the most authoritative international academic journal in the field of neurology.

In this paper, Professor Kim Ji-soo’s research team established the characteristic symptoms related to anti-GQ1b ganglioside antibodies (anti-GQ1b antibodies) discovered over the course of 10 years as the ‘anti-GQ1b antibody syndrome’. When autoantibodies (anti-GQ1b antibodies) targeting GQ1b ganglioside are generated, the antibodies can cause nerve damage, resulting in double vision, loss of motor skills, and decreased knee reflexes. The research team stated that in addition to these typical symptoms, symptoms such as dizziness, balance disorders, decreased vision, and limb weakness can also appear.

In particular, this paper reported that, contrary to the general belief that anti-GQ1b antibodies mainly invade the peripheral nervous system, they can invade the central nervous system and cause ocular paralysis symptoms such as internuclear ophthalmoplegia and supranuclear ophthalmoplegia.

The Korea Health Management Association introduced the ‘Health Checkup RFID Route Management System’ to the Seoul Eastern Branch Health Promotion Clinic on the 1st to optimize customer checkup routes and increase customer satisfaction by reducing the examination time.

The path management system provides customers with the optimal path for health checkups, reducing unnecessary waiting times and helping them to proceed with the checkup process more efficiently. This allows customers to receive health checkups more conveniently and quickly, and health promotion clinics to operate more efficiently.

Meanwhile, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, has established an artificial intelligence (AI) voice bot service that comprehensively manages schedules from reservations to changes for the first time in the health checkup industry in addition to the RFID route management system to increase customer satisfaction through digitalization.

H Plus Yangji Hospital recently received the 1st grade for the 4th consecutive time in the ’10th Acute Stroke Appropriateness Evaluation’ announced by the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, following the 9th evaluation in 2022.

In this evaluation, H Plus Yangji Hospital received a near-perfect overall score of 99.8 points (overall average 88.13 points). It received the highest score in seven evaluation indicators, including personnel and facility composition, intravenous thrombolytic administration rate (within 60 minutes), early rehabilitation evaluation rate/implementation rate, pneumonia incidence rate during hospitalization, and mortality rate (hemorrhagic/ischemic) within 30 days of hospitalization, as well as five monitoring evaluation indicators, including ambulance utilization rate and median time to emergency room arrival after symptom onset.

Since 2006, the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service has been conducting adequacy assessments to ensure that acute stroke patients can receive high-quality treatment at nearby medical institutions anywhere in the country.

Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital announced on the 1st that the book ‘Corneal Topography’ published by Professors Lee Do-hyung and Jeong In-kwon of the Department of Ophthalmology was selected as the ‘2024 Outstanding Academic Book in the Field of Natural Sciences’ by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea (hereinafter referred to as the Academy).

‘Corneal Topography’, published in November last year, is a book about examination methods that help in corneal diagnosis and treatment. Professors Lee Do-hyung and Jeong In-kwon personally used all domestic corneal topography examination equipment (Topography) and presented a guide through interpretation of clinical cases in this book.

The Academy has been conducting a project commissioned by the Ministry of Education since 2002 to select excellent academic books in basic studies and to promote research and writing activities in basic academic fields.

On the 26th of last month, the Department of Cardiology at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea invited Dr. Javed Butler of Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, a world-renowned expert on heart failure, to hold a special lecture and discussion.

The special lecture was held in room 118 of the main building of the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine with the topic of ‘Optimizing HF Patient Care: Ensuring GDMT Implementation and Addressing Early Benefits’ and was attended by medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, physical therapists, and medical technicians interested in heart failure.

Afterwards, Professor Jong-Chan Yoon and Professor Mi-Hyang Jeong of the Department of Cardiology held a discussion with Dr. Vishnu Kumar (Medical Advisor) and PM Carmen Chu of the global pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and exchanged opinions on ‘the lecture content’ and ‘the necessity and importance of early treatment with SGLT2 inhibitors in the treatment of heart failure.’

Professor Park Hye-yoon of the Department of Psychiatry at Seoul National University Hospital received the ‘Psychosomatic Medicine Academic Award’ at the 2024 Spring Academic Conference of the Korean Psychosomatic Society held on June 28.

The ‘Psychosomatic Medicine Academic Award’ was established to encourage academic research and improve the level of research. It is awarded to researchers who have contributed to academic development based on academic papers in the field of psychosomatic medicine published in the past three years.

Professor Park is an expert in psychosomatic medicine and palliative care psychiatry, and has been conducting research on the mental health of patients and medical staff in public health crises caused by novel infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and MERS, as well as end-of-life care for cancer patients. Among them, he was honored with an award in recognition of his research titled ‘Experiences of Stigma and Discrimination among COVID-19 Experiencers in Korea’ published in the international academic journal ‘Frontiers in Psychiatry’.

Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital held a metaverse childbirth class for married immigrant women from the 22nd to the 30th of last month. The childbirth class is a program that provides information related to pregnancy, childbirth, childrearing, and care to multicultural families who are experiencing difficulties due to cultural differences and lack of information. It has been held since 2013, and a total of 1,435 people have participated as of this year.

This childbirth class was held at SK Telecom’s metaverse service ‘ifland’. The class was taught by experts including social workers from the social work team at Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, medical staff from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, physical therapists, and nutritionists. The curriculum covers the entire process from pregnancy to childbirth, including ▲Changes and precautions by pregnancy cycle ▲Psychological and emotional characteristics of women during pregnancy and postpartum ▲Labor breathing methods and physical activity of pregnant women ▲Prenatal care and breastfeeding ▲Precautions when taking medication ▲Development process of newborns after birth ▲Nutritional care and weaning food ▲Newborn massage ▲Baby showers for parents.

A total of 150 immigrant women and their families, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Brazilian immigrant women, participated in the event. Participants learned in their respective languages ​​through conference rooms for each language. They also had time to talk openly about the difficulties they faced during pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing through the ‘Sharing Experiences of Immigrant Women’ program. Immigrant women from the same language group encouraged each other and shared advice on raising children, building a social network.

The National Cancer Center announced on the 1st that it has been operating the first ‘Healthcare-Specialized Personal Information Safe Zone’ in the healthcare sector since July. The Personal Information Safe Zone is a system that relaxes various restrictions related to the period of use, storage organization, etc., so that pseudonymized information can be processed flexibly in facilities that meet certain safety standards. The designated safe zone must have a separate, strengthened data processing environment, including personal information processing procedures and management systems, and network security.
The National Cancer Center was designated as a pilot operation institution for the Personal Information Safe Zone by the Personal Information Commission on December 27th of last year, and established measures to support research using health and medical data during the pilot operation period and necessary improvements for operation. Afterwards, it secured data analysis space, established an analysis system, and improved the network, and began operation in July after establishing the processing environment necessary for the operation of the Personal Information Safe Zone.

In the past, there were many cases where data quality was damaged during the pseudonymization process, making research impossible and research results unreliable. However, the hospital explained that various researches are possible within the safe zone without excessively damaging data quality. Data sample inspection is also possible, which can reduce the time and cost required to utilize medical imaging and image big data.

Wonju Severance Christian Hospital recently received a first-class rating in four adequacy evaluations (intensive care unit, anesthesia, acute stroke, and drug reimbursement adequacy evaluations) announced by the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service.

Wonju Severance Christian Hospital achieved 1st place for the third consecutive time by earning a total score of 92 points in the 4th intensive care unit adequacy evaluation. In the 3rd anesthesia adequacy evaluation, it earned 99.9 points, which is close to the full score of 100, and earned 1st place for the third consecutive time. In the 10th acute stroke adequacy evaluation, it earned 9th place for the 9th consecutive time by earning a total score of 99.96 points. The hospital also earned 1st place in the drug reimbursement evaluation.

The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service is conducting adequacy assessments of various treatment areas to promote balanced and continuous improvement in the quality of medical services provided by domestic medical institutions.

On the 1st, the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Science signed a business partnership agreement with the Sungkyunkwan University Metaverse-based Radiation Safety ICT Research Center. This agreement was made possible by the two organizations forming a consensus on securing and commercializing radiation safety technology that simultaneously ensures efficiency and safety in radiation work by converging radiation technology and metaverse (3D virtual space) technology.

The two organizations signed a business partnership agreement and agreed to cooperate in ▲developing a metaverse-based radiation detection system for radiation safety, ▲developing practical technology for a signal processing circuit system for radiation detection, ▲exchanging radiation technology research information and promoting exchanges of researchers, and ▲promoting research results.

With this agreement, the two organizations plan to conduct joint research on radiation visualization that applies radiation occurrence data to real spaces using metaverse technologies such as AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality).

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