The Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) delegation visited today SPMS Centre for Control and Monitorization (CCM) premises in Maia. The group also took the opportunity to check SPMS DataCenter in Porto.

The tour in the north of Portugal started at the Centre for Control and Monitorization (CCM) in the Maia offices, where a video was shown portraying services dematerialization and paperless prescriptions implementation, a phased process in which CCM had a relevant role.

Later in the day, the delegation proceeded to the Porto premises, where they visited the DataCenter and the servers room.

This visit marks the end of the first Joint Symposium about digital health, between Portugal and Korea. The meeting is integrated in SPMS cooperation strategy, with an active position on knowledge and experiences sharing with international organizations, to ensure a dynamic and inclusive health digital transformation.  

On the second day of the Joint Symposium between the Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) delegation and SPMS the debate centred around the relevance of a cooperation strategy in digital health.

The second day started with a knowledge exchange and experience sharing session, where both institutions shared their experiences with eSkills, Public health Systems, Big Data and Telehealth.

Later in the day, all the Symposium participants attended a Brainstorming Workshop, where a Design Thinking exercise was done, covering several topics, such as Sustainability, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Patient Empowerment, Equity and Efficiency.   

In the closing session, Henrique Martins, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPMS, reiterated the importance of a cooperation strategy in the digital transformation effort, where helping other countries, creating a method for doing it and finding a solid method to implement this strategy, being the most important concepts to take into consideration.

Tomorrow the KOSMI delegation will continue their tour in Portugal with a visit to both Porto and Maia SPMS units.

A Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) delegation initiates today, January 14^th, a visit to SPMS Portuguese premises to attend a Joint Symposium about health digital transformation. The meeting will last until the 16^th of January and the Korean delegation will visit several SPMS units in Lisbon and Porto. 

The KOSMI delegation, which brought to Portugal representatives from the Korean University Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital and the Development Institut for Health & Welfar, among others, initiated the first day with presentations about Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence. Hyun Ae Park, representing Seoul National University, mentioned the important contribution of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), in their work, for which SPMS has the licence for the Portuguese territory since 2014.

Henrique Martins, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPMS, opened the Symposium alluding to the knowledge exchange and SPMS good practices. Throughout the day presentations will alternate between KOSMI and SPMS teams, tackling different topics such as Health Terminology in Korea, Medical AI Project in Korea, eHealth National Strategy and International Context – ENESIS, Paperless Prescription and Paperless Exams and the Citizen at the Center of the System.

The Korean delegation visit integrates SPMS strategy to exchange experience and knowledge sharing with international health organizations. Korea views SPMS commitment to develop a digital transformation in health as a reference, maintaining a eHealth position of leadership in Europe.