Viva Innovation Co., Ltd. (CEO Park Han) announced that it will participate in CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from Tuesday, January 9th to Friday, January 12th (local time) next year.
Viva Innovation is creating services for ‘a world where people can manage their health in good hospitals and with good doctors.’ It is reported that the company launched a health checkup platform that takes care of the journey before and after health checkups, the moment when the need for health care is strongly felt, and is currently working with 1.25 million users and over 280 hospitals nationwide. In addition, we have medical device software that allows follow-up based on health checkup results using checkup data collected through digitalization of the medical system.
Specifically, AI test design that analyzes past health checkup results and recommends tests, AI symptom check that analyzes health status and recommends a medical department, and AI health status that predicts the health status of each part of the body using checkup data and artificial intelligence technology. It has Check-upGPT technology, a generative medical AI service that learns predictions, medical/examination big data, and conversations that occur during the follow-up process.
The product exhibiting at this CES is ‘KINDOC’, a digital medical solution based on BeByinnovation’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It consists of ‘Homedoctor’, a mobile application for users, ‘Healthcare Coach’, a healthcare coaching robot, and ‘Monitoring’ web platform, a clinical decision support system for medical experts. Through this, we provide customized health care services to patients and provide medical professionals with the ability to support diagnosis and treatment activities in clinical settings.
KINDOC integrates lifelog data, hospital medical information system (EMR) data, and medical big data obtained from public institutions by linking with various home medical devices through Bluetooth or server connection to record personal health history, prescription records, and professional medical care. Data can be collected comprehensively.
An official from Viva Innovation said, “We first launched the ‘Find a Hospital’ service after receiving medical big data from big data providers such as the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service. “To discover a business model, we pivoted to a service to find a checkup center within a hospital, and then provided a service from checkup reservation to result inquiry, growing into Korea’s No. 1 health checkup platform,” he said.
Since then, differentiated artificial intelligence technology has been developed using continuously accumulated personal medical examination data and has been advanced through R&D projects. In particular, an official emphasized, “We have secured competitiveness by developing unrivaled patented technology and AI algorithms in cooperation with university hospitals, and have verified the service by conducting clinical service demonstrations by using hospitals as remote monitoring test beds.” In addition to national examination data, we have established a system for each affiliated hospital to obtain extensive comprehensive examination data stored only in hospitals. Through this, we have secured approximately 4 times more quality comprehensive examination data that can provide the most precise information on an individual’s health than competitors, and conducted technical analysis. “We are using it for development and development.”
The unique advantage of the KINDOC solution is that it gathers scattered individual medical data into one place, connects each stage of separate medical services, and integrates them into one platform. BeBinnovation has developed technology to collect and integrate health examination data such as MRI, CT, and ultrasound, as well as past hospital diagnosis records and pharmacy prescription records. It was also introduced as being able to display current health status in real time by linking with home medical devices such as blood pressure, blood sugar, body composition, and patch-type electrocardiogram. Using this data, three AI services were installed within the KINDOC solution. ‘Home Doctor’ and ‘Healthcare Coach’ allow users to easily access their health data anytime, anywhere and receive video consultations with experts based on AI analysis results. In addition, ‘Monitoring’, used by medical professionals, supports doctors’ diagnosis and treatment processes in clinical settings by querying patients’ comprehensive medical and examination records and facilitating real-time remote video consultation.
In 2020, Viva Innovation successfully carried out remote monitoring demonstration targeting 50 local patients in Mongolia through an e-Hospital (non-face-to-face medical service) construction project in cooperation with the 3rd National Hospital of Mongolia, and in 2021, Do Life Hospital in Vietnam. In cooperation with , we completed ICT-based pre-consultation and follow-up management non-face-to-face remote collaborative services for 200 local patients. Through this, we accumulated know-how to apply and upgrade services according to local circumstances, and installed automatic language translation technology within the platform.
In addition, in collaboration with domestic LG Electronics from 2021 to 2022, non-face-to-face health consultations based on medical data were conducted for eight countries where expatriates were dispatched: Australia, Dubai, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Regarding this, an official said, “We have confirmed that overseas expatriates do not actually receive proper medical services due to language barriers and blind spots in local medical services. “We can provide B2B medical welfare services not only to overseas workers of domestic companies, but also to provide non-face-to-face health consultations with local medical professionals to workers dispatched to Korea by overseas companies,” he explained.
Regarding future business plans, “In the mid to long term, our company will realize remote monitoring services based on examination results as a healthcare medical platform that links a health examination platform and remote monitoring software. In addition, we want to connect individuals (B2C) and companies (B2B) with health checkup hospitals and scale up to a checkup big data platform based on personalized checkup data.” We plan to expand into a follow-up observation service and upgrade it to a brokerage service using examination data. “Through this, we will lead innovation in the health checkup value chain.”
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