Korean government formaly launched a task-force team for distributed bio-dig data sharing

[rwpark (Rae Woong Park)]

Here is a big news from Korea.
Minister of Mistry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea formally announced that they launch a TF team for distributed bio-dig data sharing to build a national biomedical data sharing platform and environment. This year, they will make a master plan for it and prepare budget to realize it.

Here is the link for the news (in Korean)

병원 의료데이터 분석치, 제약사 등에 제공 길 열린다

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[Christian_Reich]

Very impressive. The Koreans will pass us all in doing this right. Congratulations, Rae.

[jon_duke]

Fantastic! Congratulations Rae. We look forward to the learnings from this work.

[hripcsa (George Hripcsak)]

Yes, congratulations, Rae!