Kim Myung-Gwan, Lee InHo, Han HyunWook, Yu HyeongWon
Institute for Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea (the Republic of).
Department of Biomedical Informatics, CHA University, Soengnam, Korea (the Republic of).
BMJ Health Care Inform. 2025 May 31;32(1):e101472. doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101472.
This research aimed to identify the needs and priorities concerning structured and unstructured medical data of medical device companies engaged in developing medical software or hardware.
The study was conducted between 23 March and 26 March 2023 and involved a survey of 76 managers, each of whom represented a single Korean medical device company.
Companies focused on novel medical devices and software expressed higher demand for unstructured data than for structured data. However, the accessibility of unstructured data was hampered by high acquisition costs, and both structured and unstructured data suffered from limited openness and high pricing, hindering the progress of digital healthcare technology. To promote the development of innovative medical devices and software with increased value, these challenges must be addressed promptly.
A crucial solution involves establishing a secure medical data trade platform that ensures the exchange of reliable and accurate medical information while adhering to legal regulations. By facilitating the circulation of high-quality medical data at appropriate prices through an invigorated medical data trade ecosystem, numerous medical device development companies with innovative ideas will have the opportunity to challenge the industry, consequently lowering the entry barriers to development.
This holds the potential to revolutionise the medical device industry by enabling safe, efficient and equitable access to medical data, fostering groundbreaking advancements in healthcare technology.
本研究旨在确定从事医疗软件或硬件开发的医疗设备公司在结构化和非结构化医疗数据方面的需求和优先事项。
该研究于2023年3月23日至26日进行，涉及对76位经理的调查，每位经理代表一家韩国医疗设备公司。
专注于新型医疗设备和软件的公司对非结构化数据的需求高于结构化数据。然而，非结构化数据的获取成本高昂，阻碍了其可访问性，并且结构化和非结构化数据都存在开放性有限和定价高昂的问题，这阻碍了数字医疗技术的发展。为了促进具有更高价值的创新医疗设备和软件的开发，必须迅速解决这些挑战。
一个关键的解决方案是建立一个安全的医疗数据交易平台，确保在遵守法律法规的同时交换可靠和准确的医疗信息。通过活跃的医疗数据交易生态系统，以适当的价格促进高质量医疗数据的流通，众多有创新想法的医疗设备开发公司将有机会挑战该行业，从而降低开发的进入壁垒。
这有可能通过实现安全、高效和公平地获取医疗数据，推动医疗技术的突破性进展，从而彻底改变医疗设备行业。
