From diagnosis to prevention… Irwell accelerates ‘Medical Metaverse Platform’ business
Published date: 2024-10-15 09:04 Updated: 2024-10-15 09:04
Kim Wan, CEO of Irwell
Irwell Co., Ltd. (CEO Kim Wan), which is located in the Metaverse Hub operated by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency, announced that it will pursue the development of a medical metaverse platform that focuses on disease prevention through linkage between patients and medical expert groups without time and space constraints.
As life expectancy increases day by day, the size of the global digital healthcare market is growing rapidly, and the demand to predict and prevent diseases by understanding the health status of each individual is also increasing.
Irwell’s medical metaverse platform displays the customer’s current health status and disease prediction data in a pop-up display within the metaverse health consultation room through various my data analysis and AI future disease prediction analysis technology based on the patient’s health checkup history. Through this, medical experts can quickly and intuitively understand basic health conditions without having to look for the patient’s medical chart, and can provide clear consultation through voice, text, and video.
In addition, the focus is on being able to continuously prevent diseases by constantly checking and managing health status rather than direct telemedicine, and various communities within the Metaverse platform enable communication through collective intelligence between members who have the same health-related concerns.
Based on these services, medical experts can communicate with patients within the metaverse space and secure trust and intimacy.
Medical Metaverse Platform Service Overview (provided by Irwell)
According to Irwell officials, platform development is currently in the starting stage, overall service planning has been completed, and the platform MVP is scheduled to be launched in the second half of next year.
The main targets of the platform are medical professionals such as hospitals and clinics and customers who are interested in health care from teenagers to those in their 80s. In particular, it is expected that psychiatry counseling for teenagers who are familiar with the medium called Metaverse will be activated first.
Irwell currently has a network of approximately 500 offline Stem cell member hospitals and plans to accelerate its platform business targeting over 1,000 hospitals and clinics in the future.
In addition, the plan is to expand the business to metaverse exhibitions, hospital and clinic MSO, DTx new drugs, etc. by promoting △ community-based metaverse construction △ blockchain-based Healthcare Infomediary service △ integrated service-based Total Healthcare Platform offline service linkage.
Kim Wan, CEO of Irwell, said, “This year, we are preparing to attract investment to build platform services such as TIPS support.” He added, “Through the establishment of the Metaverse health management platform, we are creating a health management platform with no barriers where anyone can easily receive health advice from medical experts. We will build and expand into a global platform in the future to not only secure overseas medical demand but also enable domestic patients to experience overseas medical care.”
Reporter Koo Gyo-hyeon kyo@etnews.com
