MediBloc has officially entered into a partnership with Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital (KHUDH), third largest dental hospital in Korea, on 18 January 2018.
MediBloc will bring innovative advancement to KHUDH’s healthcare record management system. Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital is the second medical institution after Oracle Medical Group that has officially formed an alliance with MediBloc.
Business Agreement
Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital and MediBloc agreed that the two parties will mutually cooperate on the medical data management of the Kyung Hee Dental Examination Center and work together to provide a high standard dental service to the hospital’s patients through MediBloc’s personal health record platform.
This partnership will realize the patient-centric healthcare information management service.
WooKyun Kho, the co-founder of MediBloc, said “we will carry forward comprehensive discussions for business cooperation.” He also mentioned “beginning with the provision of Healthcare Data Platform, we are planning to interconnect all types of other services that MediBloc is capable of with Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital.”
Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital will be the first hospital in South Korea to provide comprehensive dental check-up service that covers not only the teeth-related examination but also facial bone-related and soft tissue-related examinations.
This comprehensive check-up service will be available through Kyung Hee Dental Examination Center, which will be officially launched on March 2018.
MediBloc’s healthcare data platform will be used in the hospital’s services to give back patients their own private medical records. In addition, the two partners will progress step-by-step in their development cooperation to connect all KHUDH’s patient dental record with MediBloc database and service.
This is expected to become the world’s first blockchain-based and patient-centric medical record sharing service in the field of dentistry. All participants of MediBloc ecosystem will be able to enjoy a new level of benefit through this partnership.
Through this partnership with KHUDH, MediBloc once again has an opportunity to prove its high practicality and value.
MediBloc team and Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital Members
Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital, established in 1971, is a child arm of Kyung Hee Medical Center, the first South Korean University Hospital that is capable of carrying out a combination of Eastern and Western medicine.
Kyung Hee Dental Examination Center, which is being built by KHUDH, will minimize the dental checkup charges for patients by reducing overtreatments.
KHUDH will propose objective dental service and treatment plans to its patients through Dentistry Exclusive Computerized Tomography (CT), 3D Panorama device and other high-tech medical apparatuses.
Moreover, it is planning to adopt state-of-the-art radiological equipment that will enable safe and objective dental care service for every patient, including patients suffering from dementia, physical disability and mental illness.
*Key Takeaways from the partnership between KHUDH and MediBloc
Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital will provide patient-centric healthcare information management service through its partnership with MediBloc and establishment of Kyung Hee Dental Examination Center in March 2018
KHUDH’s patients will be able to collect, manage and use their own medical data in a private and safe way through MediBloc, and thus, they will enjoy all the benefits that the participants of MediBloc platform are provided with.
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