“‘Future health and medical treatment industry’ got a great attention from both medical community and regular people. Especially digital health care section was popular for everyone.”(from Korean Health Industry Development Institute staff)Digital health care section was combination of IT and healthcare, you could experience the future health and medical treatment such as preventing, diagnosis, treatment, rehab. Staff also said “Through this, we could saw the great interest of foreigner about this Korean technology. These techniques are about to share in global healthcare industry.”The most popular technology in this was ‘Personalized Smart Glove’, for rehabilitation. Before this, patients need boring exercise like building cups and flipping pages. However, it became interesting through combining with digital contents. This is a wearable machine has multiple sensor including bending sensor, so it can detect the micro movement. So from small movement you can get a lot of data. Through Bluetooth connection to tablet you can enjoy digital contents and exercise the finger, wrist, and arm.There is also meal assistance robot for arm disability. If food is in tray, it helps to eat. This will be more developed.And AI was diagnosed the lung disease through CT, MRI. Also figured out the stage of disease and found out the perfect treatment from comparison with previous images.Telemedicine system was also displayed(Gachon University Gil Medical Center and Peru). They displayed the demo business model such as video equipment, digital stethoscope, multi-function medical scope and so on.
