Korea, Vietnam to cooperate on telehealth and HIS
03-Dec-15, Korea Net
Korea and Vietnam have vowed to enhance bilateral cooperation on healthcare and medical services. On 1-Dec-15, the two Ministers of Health signed a memorandum of understanding.
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With this new agreement, an upgraded version of the last MOU that the two countries signed in 2008, mutual cooperation in this sector will expand. Under this new MOU, the two sides have agreed to strengthen cooperation on telemedicine technologies and to exchange technologies and data about hospital information systems.
The two nations will further increase the bilateral exchange of data, technologies and human resources in the fields of disease control and prevention, health insurance, public health policies, healthcare projects and biotechnology.