LG Dacom has announced that it will work with the Health Insurance Review Assessment Service to launch a health-medication myLGtv service, bilaterally conducted on the convergent network of IPTV.
The program is designed to provide an advanced medical service in the era of convergence for customers through IPTV in which information on patients can be delivered quickly on the IPTV network.
The new service will enable its users to do a wide variety of health-related activities. Subscribers can see the results of prescriptions and diagnoses done by doctors. They can also search for detailed information on chronic and common diseases. They will be able to get such information as price, effect, and side-effect of medicines. And eventually patients will not have to come see doctors just for blood pressure or blood sugar checks thanks to the new service.
The two partners have signed the agreement. At the signing ceremony were Song Do-gyun, vice chairman of the Korea Communications Commission; Won Hee-mok, parliamentarian of the Hannara Party; and Kim Sung-tae, chairman of the National Information Society Agency. They were there to encourage LG Dacom and HIRAS to carry out their duties to provide better health services.
According to the agreement, LG Dacom will come up with summaries of the results from the test service. LG Dacom will also find out ways to install networks to connect hospital data with individual patient computers. It will also set up services for VOD content and transmission. HIRAS, on the other hand, will work hard to provide not only a medical consultant reservation system and check-up system, but also information on medicines and diseases.
LG and HIRAS will have finished developing the system by this coming October. They will start to provide a test service in November in order to release the brand-new service next year.
