Hyo Keun Lim MD

The University of SungKyunKwan University announced on June 27, 2017, that the Director of SAIHST, Professor Hyo Keun Lim has been appointed as the first CEO of "Smart Health Standard Forum" which was built to establish the standard technologies in the smart Healthcare industry. The term is for two years and he is currently a professor of Radiology at Samsung Medical Center.

As healthcare technologies are in rapid convergence with information and communication technologies, a platform is established for inter-hospital medical record exchange, precision medicine through big data analysis, and clinical practice support systems by artificial intelligence. Thus, the global community now experiencing the smart healthcare era which enables personalized treatment as well as preventing, treating, and aftercare of diseases. To the realization of smart healthcare, it is necessary to standardize the data exchange model with health data and registration and storage system. And at the same time, an assessment system to evaluate how such standards are rightly applied must be accompanied. To support such, 'Smart Health Standard Forum' was established after a long period of preparation by experts and leaders from the industry-academia-research-government of Korea's smart health standard sector.

This forum has completed the registration of KATS(Korean Agency for Technology and Standards) of the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) in April 2017 and is in the process of preparing for various activities. The founding member of this forum is; the CEO of Healthconnect, Ryoung Min Baek, Professor Soo-Yong Sin of Kyung Hee University, Dr. Jae-Sung Kim of KISA(Korea Internet & Security Agency), and Mr. Sung-Hyun Lee from Flyingmountain.

Prof.Lim emphasized that; ' the private certification agency such as UL at US and TUV-SUD at EU, they already have global certification criteria and accountability assessment system. And companies certified by these certification agencies have achieved technology competitiveness which is directly linked to the expansion of market share and high sales revenue. Our 'Smart Health Standard Forum' plans to establish the standard accountability assessment system including global level smart health standard testing and certification in order to contribute to a new level of growth engine of Korea in the 4th industrial revolution era.