The Minister of Health and Well-being rejected the press report that he planned to allow medical treatment remotely between doctors and patients at a professional journalism council and meeting on the 24th. [19659005] The Minister of Health and Welfare, Park Yong-kyung, recently quoted some media as saying that he was "misunderstood" by saying that he would encourage chronic disease management through co-operation remote between doctors under the current law.
Given the fact that medical treatment is allowed among doctors under the existing medical law, it is necessary to make a distinction between medical personnel through distance cooperation under the current law.
The 24th day of a meeting of professional journalism and a meeting, the Minister said the recent controversy
Minister Park first explained that "medical workers Medical services between the Doctors and patients are being implemented as pilot projects in some vulnerable areas such as remote areas, deep-sea fishing vessels, general practitioners and penitentiaries. "
" It is not intended to allow medical care at a distance between doctors and patients for industrialization, but that does not mean to allow public health
It is said that the pace of development of medical technology is not reflected in the medical care between the medical staff.
19659005] Minister Park said, "It has been 18 years since the pilot project of medical telemedicine began in Korea." There are many new technologies in the field of medical technology over the past 18 years, but they have not been used properly. "" It is necessary to look for ways to use these new medical technologies within the limits of the current law. "19659005]" In particular, there are vague fears about telemedicine and vague expectations about industrialization. I think that they can both be wrong. However, medical technology itself is considered worthless. (The result will vary depending on how you use it.) Preconceptions are encountered before objective discussions.
In addition, "We believe that we can contribute to the improvement of the medical delivery system by combining the medical technology that develops day-to-day with telemedicine.For example, the use of the Remote collaboration focused on chronic disease management between primary and secondary medical institutions can help improve the system of medical service delivery by solving the problems of large hospitals. "
" One of the reasons that Telemedicine has not been activated between medical staff for a year is that there are not enough rewards, "he said. If the medical profession gives an opinion on the appropriate number and desirable form of cooperation between medical personnel to improve the medical delivery system, we will be able to find a way to solve it by receiving it faithfully. "
Minister Park said," We are working more and more at the ongoing project of continuous demonstration of physician-patient telemedicine, which I intend to do aggressively. not to say that we will enlarge the object or area. "We will definitely check the safety and effectiveness of telemedicine by conducting an active pilot project."
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