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Govt. to implement sharing system for medical imaging

By The Korea Herald

The South Korean government on Friday said it is pushing to implement a system allowing hospitals to share medical imaging of a patient, such as CT and MRI scans. The system, part of the Ministry of Health and Welfare plans for the second half of the year, is to spare patients the extra medical expenses and inconvenience of getting new scans every time they move between different hospitals. The patient would use a QR code to upload existing medical images to the medical institution of their choo