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Busan Metropolitan City Holds Performance Review Meeting for Its Mobile Healthcare Services, Introducing a Data-Driven Performance Analysis Approach

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will hold the “2025 Performance Review Meeting for the Mobile Healthcare Services Project” today (the 12th) at 3:00 p.m. in the City Hall Grand Conference Room.

The Mobile Healthcare Services Project provides community-based healthcare services, including health checkups, consultations, and education, to medically vulnerable groups—such as older adults, residents living along hillside roads, and others—by dispatching teams of professional medical staff on medical buses.

A total of five medical buses are in operation under the project, each equipped with advanced diagnostic equipment such as mobile ultrasound and X-ray systems.

The performance review meeting will be attended by around 70 participants, including representatives from operating medical institutions, public health centers, and other partner organizations, as well as officials from comprehensive social welfare centers. The program will proceed in the following order: opening remarks, presentation of certificates of commendation, introduction of best practices, and presentation of the results of synthetic data generation and analysis.

Participants will share the project’s achievements over the past year and hear presentations on the results of generating and analyzing synthetic data* derived from medical bus examination records. Based on these findings, policy recommendations will be proposed, and discussions will be held on plans for next year’s project.

• ●Synthetic data generation and analysis of medical bus examination records: a technique that creates and analyzes artificial data closely resembling real data while minimizing the risk of personal identification.

This year, in order to objectively analyze the performance of medical bus operations, the City generated and analyzed synthetic data based on medical bus examination records accumulated from 2022 through the first half of this year.

Through this analysis, the City identified previously unrecognized high-risk groups and confirmed that repeated use of the medical bus services has a positive effect on improving users’ health. In addition, the City is currently conducting a pseudonymized data linkage analysis study* with income-level data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

• ●Pseudonymized data linkage analysis: a method that combines Ministry of Health and Welfare beneficiary registration data (basic livelihood security recipients, near-poor households, basic pension recipients) with medical bus user information, then processes the data through pseudonymization (partial deletion or replacement of personal information) to analyze the distribution of beneficiary types among medical bus users.

Furthermore, as of November this year, the City visited 298 institutions a total of 645 times, providing services to 12,348 people and achieving an average satisfaction rate of 97.2 percent (%).

The City secured 50 percent (%) of this year’s medical bus operating costs from national funds (Lottery Fund), thereby enhancing financial stability. In addition, reflecting the results of a study on project standardization conducted last year, the City worked to improve service equity and strengthen a community-based healthcare management system by expanding linkages with local health and medical resources.

To this end, the City implemented measures such as adjusting medical bus service zones and designating common examination items, carrying out a big data analysis project titled “Medical Bus Potential Demand Analysis,” holding workshops to share research outcomes, and expanding follow-up management through collaboration with local health and medical resources, including the Busan Metropolitan Mental Health Welfare Center.

In addition, services were diversified through the participation of the Busan branch of the Korean Physical Therapy Association in free volunteer activities. By linking follow-up management with village health centers, appropriate registration and management services were provided to individuals in need of everyday health management, resulting in high user satisfaction levels.

Also this month, National Taiwan Normal University visited Busan to benchmark the City’s project. Thirty graduate students directly experienced the related services, gaining firsthand insight into the importance of preventive, patient-centered healthcare.

Jo Gyu-yul, Director General of the City’s Citizen Health Bureau, stated, “Based on this year’s achievements, we expect to further advance the project by strengthening cooperation among related institutions,” adding, “We will continue to make every effort next year to implement substantive policies so that this project can establish itself not as a one-time health checkup, but as a ‘community-based health management model’ closely linked with local health, medical, and welfare resources.”