JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

In order to identify the ecosystem of the digital health care industry and suggest ways to revitalize the industry, this study analyzed the digital health care network with newspaper articles that form social discussions.

Objective:

Through this, we intend to suggest measures to revitalize the industry by deriving the stakeholders and major issues with respect to the ecosystem of the digital healthcare industry.

Methods:

1,822 newspaper articles were collected for a limited period from 2016 to August 2021, when the mobile health care project was promoted centered on public health centers using Big Kinds, a news big data system. The analysis method used R program and NetMiner program.

Results:

As a result of the analysis, the government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare showed the highest centrality and appeared as major stakeholders, and their common major issues were 'reviewing the introduction of telemedicine', 'concerns about bankruptcy of local clinics', and 'building an integrated platform for precision medicine'. appear. In addition, major stakeholders of medical institutions and companies were Seoul National University Hospital, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Ajou University Hospital, Samsung, and Vuno.

Conclusions:

Accordingly, it was confirmed that the issues related to digital health care are largely composed of telemedicine, data, and health care business. In order for digital health care to develop as a national innovative growth engine and to be institutionalized, the development of a digital health care fee model that can improve the regulatory system and improve the cost-effectiveness of patient care, centering on the Ministry of Health and Welfare, a key stakeholder, must be preceded.