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KIST, Medical Field Big Data Platforms Hold Agreement Ceremony on Data Collaboration & Invigoration (December 22, 2023)
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KIST, Medical Field Big Data Platforms Hold Agreement Ceremony on Data Collaboration and Invigoration
On December 21, 2023, at its headquarters in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, KIST (President: Seok-Jin Yoon) held a ceremony with the Korea National Information Society Agency (NIA), National Cancer Center, and Yonsei Wonju Health System to sign a business agreement for the promotion of mutual cooperation between medical platforms for a project to construct a big data platform.
The Ministry of Science and ICT, along with the National Information Society Agency, has been promoting the establishment of the “Big Data Platform and Center Development Project” since 2019 through public-private cooperation for the purpose of producing, analyzing, utilizing, and trading high-quality data. Thus far, they have built 21 big data platforms across various fields* and nurtured 230 big data centers producing data around these platforms.
* 21 platform fields:
(2019) — Finance, Environment, Culture, Transportation, Healthcare, Distribution & Consumption, Telecommunications, SMEs, Local Economies, Forestry
(2020) — Agricultural Foods, Digital Industry Innovation, Lifelogs, Fire Safety, Smart Security, Marine Fisheries
(2022) Infectious Diseases, Spatial Convergence, Real Estate, Smart Farms, Coastal
Among these areas, an agreement was signed between the Healthcare, Lifelog, and Infectious Disease medical field platforms to establish a cooperative system that links Korean medical data industry products with services it creates and provides to promote the revitalization of the Korean medical data industry and the development of medical data research cooperation.
The purpose of this event was to establish an official deliberative body for medical field big data platforms (Lifelogs, Healthcare, Infectious Diseases) that will promote the link between medical data invigoration and the advancement of analysis technology, and also launch a “Medical BIG* Union” to enhance the value of continuous medical data utilization.
*BIG — Beyond the Innovation Gap
Each platform's medical data and data products will be utilized through the "Safe Use Center," enabling researchers to securely and conveniently analyze and use various clinical data for research and convergence data production.
Several key figures and experts took part in the event, including Shin-Ae Shin, Director of the Big Data Task Force at the NIA, Jae-Pyoung Ahn, Director of the Research Resources Division at KIST, Sang-Soo Choi, Center Head for the KIST Technological Convergence Center, Sang-Baek Koh, Director of the Future Medical Industry Cooperation Division at Yonsei University, Hye-Sook Min, Director of the Public Health Research Institute at the National Cancer Center, Hyeon-Ju Gong, Team Leader of the Data Operation Team at the National Cancer Center, Young-sang Lee, CEO of Data Streams, and academic experts such as Baek-Cheol Jang, Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Information at Yonsei University.
It is anticipated by the public and private institutions, companies, and experts who attended the agreement and launching ceremony that this will be a catalyst for producing safer and more valuable medical data products, contributing to the development of related services, research, and analysis. The medical field platforms pledged to faithfully perform their role of providing valuable data for the development of Korea’s medical field through cooperation going forward.
Shin-Ae Shin, Director of the Big Data Task Force at the NIA, emphasized, "This medical big data platform agreement and launching ceremony will be a significant opportunity for the development of the Korean medical field," and further stated, "Through continuous public-private cooperation and efforts to develop the data industry, we will do our best to foster the medical data industry ecosystem and create new value by utilizing high-quality medical data production and innovation capabilities."
Furthermore, Jae-Pyoung Ahn, Director of the Research Resources Division at KIST, which organized the event, commented, "Cooperation in the medical big data field is the beginning of a new leap forward for innovation and research, and this agreement is expected to open new doors for research on disease prevention, early diagnosis, and the development of effective treatment methods through the active utilization of medical data."