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In addition to 'remote care' such as telephone consultation, discussions on deregulation of 'remote care', a larger concept, are expected to begin in earnest. I saw it.

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This is a cardiac ultrasound device that can accurately examine the heart.

The body is large enough to require a separate space, but recently only a mobile phone has been released.


It is less accurate than a large machine, but it is more effective than a stethoscope.

[Severance Hospital Cardiology Specialist: Patients are difficult to move or use in emergency situations (portable echocardiography equipment)]

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Telemedicine is all about conducting a diagnosis or treatment in a patient's presence using digital equipment without going to the hospital. Now, echocardiography is also possible.

ECG to see if your heart beats evenly is one step ahead.

Not only is it small enough to fit on smartphones and watches, it can even read the machine itself.

Accuracy is around 70-80% for the watch ECG and 90% for the smartphone ECG, yet it is less than the pseudo-reading normal ECG.

However, with the IoT technology, the accuracy of telemedicine is increasing day by day.

It is expected to rapidly change the current medical system centered on doctors and hospitals to individual and family-oriented.

However, there are still a lot of homework to solve.

The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, etc. are allowed, while Korea and Switzerland are not allowed. In order to keep up with technological development, deregulation is necessary, but measures for commercialization of medical care are needed.

Most importantly, social consensus must be reached on who and how to handle the medical responsibility of doctors and hospitals, such as misdiagnosis and medical accidents.

(Video coverage: Senior style, Jang Un-suk, Video editing: Yumira)