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IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory

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  • BT Convergence Technology Research  Department Director Kim, Seunghwan
  • Managing Director
  • Kim, Seunghwan
  • skim@etri.re.kr
  • Tel. +82-42-860-6450
  • Fax. +82-42-860-6594

BT Convergence Technology Research Department

To solve the social problems such as becoming aging society and rapid increase of medical expenditure and to meet the medical service paradigm shift from diagnosis and treatment of disease to prevention and management of disease, IT and BT convergence and IT-medical convergence are received many interest.

BT Convergence Research Department are keeping at development, of new medical services and new diagnosis devices and equipments through applying of IT on BT and medical services in order to meet this social demand.

BT Convergence Research Department are developing various IT-medical convergence technologies including u-health, which is the health management anytime and anywhere, life-care, which leads healthy life by management of daily life, new diagnosis and treatment system applied by IT, and neuron interface to treat brain diseases.
We are also actively doing various activities such as enterprising promotion through pilot application of research products and standardization.