CyberMDCare holds opening ceremony for U.S. remote emergency care center 'SUCC'

2024.07.12. The Fair Economy — IT solutions firm Tomato System (CEO Lee Sang-don) recently announced that its subsidiary, CyberMDCare, and the U.S. remote urgent care center SUCC (Smart Urgent Care Center) held an opening ceremony to mark the start of full-scale operations.

According to Tomato System, SUCC will provide medical services 24/7, 365 days a year to socially vulnerable people such as patients in medical blind spots, the elderly, and the poor, as well as to patients with 'semi-urgent conditions' such as coughs, colds, flu, conjunctivitis, gout, allergies, laryngitis, and diarrhea, using CyberMDCare's video consultations and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services.

This is expected to provide appropriate diagnoses and prescriptions for patients who have difficulty seeking immediate care, while also reducing the economic burden of frequent emergency room visits.

SUCC is available not only to Medicare beneficiaries but also to uninsured individuals. Patients can receive more precise care by purchasing a separate remote monitoring device. The center is led by Director Lim Dae-sun, who holds a medical doctorate, and CyberMDCare oversees SUCC.

CyberMDCare provides video and remote consultation services to U.S. Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older and to Medicaid beneficiaries with low incomes. The RPM service transmits real-time biometric data such as blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, and oxygen saturation to doctors via a smartphone app, enabling fast and accurate diagnosis and prescription.

The United States has recently been drawing attention in the telemedicine market. After COVID-19, related regulations were eased and the market was activated, leading to growing demand for remote medical services. Global market research firm Frost & Sullivan projected that the U.S. telemedicine market would grow from $17.53 billion (about 20.82 trillion won) in 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 38.2% to reach $122.3 billion (about 145.26 trillion won) by 2025.

Lee Sang-don, CEO of Tomato System, said, "SUCC is another business model for CyberMDCare. It goes beyond simply supporting hospitals or insurance companies with remote consultation services and marks our entry into the online hospital business in the United States. As it is the first service of its kind attempted in the U.S., it is drawing great attention. We hope SUCC will establish itself as a representative remote emergency care center in the U.S., allowing many patients to use the service conveniently, and we will expand our recognition in the U.S. with services differentiated from existing providers."

Meanwhile, CyberMDCare has expressed its intention to develop into an all-in-one digital healthcare service by combining services such as a system that detects patients' body temperature with cameras, a system that analyzes food photos to calculate calories and nutrients and links them with blood sugar and blood pressure data, and a medical management system that manages patient treatment and diagnosis data.