The Seoul city government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare are supporting medical startups by allowing them to use anonymised hospital data for research and development of AI-driven technologies. Elsewhere, Hong Kong’s eHealth app now provides access to pathology reports, while the National Cancer Center in South Korea has successfully usednatural language processing models to effectively convert unstructured pathology reports into structured formats for research.

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