This data has owners
Records patients handed over themselves, hoping they would help someone else's care.
43,000 patients have joined us
There is no need to visit the hospital in person. Request it in the app and Persly obtains the records and delivers them.
- Every university hospital in Korea
- First request free of charge
- Under 30 seconds to apply
The community in numbers
- 43,000+
- patients signed upsince launch in February 2025
- 127
- hospitals records were issued byacross 15 provinces in Korea
- 690,000+
- pages of medical records collected475,303 records, as issued by the hospital
How these records were gathered
- Patients requested it themselves
- Persly approaches each hospital on the patient's behalf, obtains the records and delivers them. We cover the issuing fee.
- Research use was consented to
- Consent for personal data processing is taken at sign-up; research use rests on a separate basis and presupposes pseudonymization.
- We do not purchase consent
- We operate no cash-for-records arrangement. What a patient receives is their own records and an application that interprets them.
Common questions
- What happens if a patient later asks to be removed?
- We act on the request as soon as it reaches us. Aggregate figures already released cannot be recalled, but the record is excluded from all subsequent queries.
- Did hospitals provide this data?
- They did not. Patients obtained their own records, and we hold no data supply agreement with any hospital. Naming hospitals identifies where records were issued; it does not indicate a partnership.
- Could a client identify a specific patient?
- The system is designed to prevent it. The cell floor, excerpt caps, combination-query blocking and hospital-axis blocking all serve that purpose, and they are layered because no single measure is sufficient on its own.
- Are the photographs on this page real patients?
- They are not. Every portrait is a stock image, and none of them are our patients. Our patients consented to research use of pseudonymized records, which does not extend to publishing their faces, so we use no real photographs.
The portraits on this page are stock images and are not real patients. Our patients consented to research use of pseudonymized records.
