With the government's active intervention and instructions, the K-Quarantine program quickly turned to 'selective autonomy', and the remote treatment strategy, the medical assistant manpower policy, became visible.
The government implemented the K-Vaccine Hub strategy at the end of last year to become a 'Vaccine Manufacturing Powerhouse' as the vaccine distribution was delayed due to the enforcement of criminal punishment under the Infection Prevention Act and the early containment of the 'Test-Track-Treatment' system based on the precise tracking of personal cell phones. Adding the policy, stocks surged first.
The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters announced on the 18th that it changed the Corona epidemiological investigation method and made the access list mandatory, and changed the epidemiological investigation health center personnel to the high-risk group home treatment management, excluding face-to-face and telephone epidemiological investigations of K quarantine.
On the 7th, the government switched to an epidemiological investigation of a 'self-reported survey' method in which the confirmed person directly accesses the survey URL address and enters contact information in accordance with the 'Omicron response quarantine and medical system conversion' on the 7th.
On the 15th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced the 'PA Management and Operation System Plan', saying that there is confusion about the extent to which medical support personnel can perform in the process of subsidizing doctors' treatment at medical institutions.
It is known that the plan for the management and operation of medical assistants (PA) has been expanded to include assistant manpower tasks such as 'ultrasound', 'emergency organ intubation', and 'suture in the operating room', etc.
The New York Times reported on the 17th about K quarantine, "Korea has successfully implemented 3T's 'Tests test-Traced trace-Treated treatment' strategy for two years, but a Korean health authority official said, 'The rapidly spreading Omicron mutation is concerned about overwhelming the public health system. Now, this strategy is not sustainable and may not make sense.”
Regarding the new quarantine policy, the New York Times said, "We changed the new quarantine policy to 'selection and focus', redeployed resources to the vulnerable, and made ordinary infected people self-medicate at home. "The number of people who have to take care of themselves at home is increasing, and complaints are growing," the report said.
President Moon Jae-in, at the Blue House on the 17th, said, “Korea suffered the least economic damage among major countries amid the corona virus, and it is showing a fast and strong recovery, solidifying its position as a stable investment destination amid a high national credit rating. We maintained an open economy that guarantees the stability of logistics and personnel movement without taking any action,” he told 24 foreign-invested companies, including vaccine and therapeutic drug companies and semiconductor IT finance companies.
The Korean Medical Association said on the 17th, "According to the government's proposal, we are conducting a feasibility study on the performance of medical support personnel for tasks that doctors should clearly do, such as 'prescription and recording'." It is not related at all, so there is a high possibility of violating the medical law."
At the Blue House meeting on the 7th, President Moon said, "I would like to ask you to check the necessity of supplementation while preemptively operating the Omicron response system that has been prepared and reorganized as planned." The individual's role has grown in the overall reorganized quarantine and medical system, such as rapid antigen testing and self-reported epidemiological investigations," he said.
On December 17 last year, President Moon said, "During the step-by-step recovery of daily life, the increase in the number of seriously ill patients could not be suppressed, and preparations such as securing a bed were not sufficient. strengthened the holding.
The accumulation of information on the mobile phone movement tracking system, which was operated as a quarantine K quarantine in the early stages of Corona, seems to have led to the ‘big data election strategy’ in the April general election.
The Chosun Ilbo at a conference on the 15th said, “Since Corona, telemedicine has become an irresistible trend,” and Nam-jong Paik, the academic chair of the Telemedicine Association, said, “The number of telemedicine cases such as treatment and consultation after Corona has exceeded 3.5 million.” “Health insurance claim costs It was reported on the 17th that the face-to-face cost was 70 billion won.”
MediBloc announced on the 18th that it will provide a real-time confirmation service for local hospitals and clinics where home healers of confirmed patients will receive phone consultations and prescriptions through the mobile phone service 'Medipass'.
K quarantine is led by companies, and quarantine officials have never disclosed information on related stock investments.