SOUTH KOREA- Chosun University Hospital, a private university hospital in the southwestern city of Gwangju in South Korea, is setting up a virtual clinic in the metaverse.

It aims to draw in overseas patients and encourage medical travel to Gwangju by offering virtual healthcare services in the metaverse.

Recent negotiations resulted in a memorandum of agreement between the hospital and Deltoid, a nearby health tech company, for the growth of the market and commercialization.

Due to the negative effects of the epidemic, this initiative has been started and will create a three-dimensional Metaverse clinic.

Metaverses are digital spaces where users can interact with each other as digital avatars.

Usually, based on blockchain networks, these platforms also include hardware based on Web3 technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and artificial intelligence (AI).

Even while there are currently no fully developed metaverse platforms like the ones we have seen in movies, things are becoming better every day.

In order to achieve the idea of utopian worlds in the virtual space, there are metaverse platforms that work to provide the finest virtual socializing experience possible with the technology at hand and frequently issue upgrades.

According to Statista data, the pandemic has also had an influence on South Korea’s medical tourism sector, which saw a dramatic drop in foreign medical tourists to just 117,000 in 2020 from around 500,000 in 2019.

Health practitioners in South Korea are increasingly talking about the medical metaverse.

A study group was established at the beginning of this year by more than 200 South Korean medical experts under the direction of professors from the College of Medicine at Seoul National University.

The goal of the group was to find ways to use the metaverse for the prevention, treatment and management of the disease.

Other healthcare providers, hospitals, and health technology innovators in Asia-Pacific are also introducing their services in the metaverse.

The Yashoda Hospitals in India joined the metaverse as the nation’s first healthcare organization in late June.

Additionally, an Indian fitness firm called GOQii raised $10 million to fund and create a scalable, all-encompassing Metaverse Clinic.

According to Statista data, the pandemic has also had an influence on South Korea’s medical tourism sector, which saw a dramatic drop in foreign medical tourists to just 117,000 in 2020 from around 500,000 in 2019.

The Singaporean healthcare company Meta Health will join the metaverse clinic of Aimedis, a Dutch company that develops medical technologies.

The digital clinic will incorporate its telemedicine platform 5Digital, enabling the storing of consultation notes and medical information from IoT devices on a blockchain.

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