KT, Seoul Asan Medical Center Join Forces to Build 'AI Hospital'
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KT and Seoul Asan Medical Center have signed an MOU to jointly promote the implementation of an AI hospital and the transformation of medical AI (AX), in line with the government's "AI Basic Medical Strategy."
The collaboration is focused on developing AI medical services that can be applied in clinical settings, and will pursue AI image interpretation support for patients visiting Seoul Asan Medical Center as well as an automated collection and analysis system for scattered health records.
The two organizations will jointly advance next-generation hospital information systems, AX-based clinical decision support, and improved patient experience, and plan to form and operate a working consultative body starting at the end of this month.
KT and Seoul Asan Medical Center have signed an agreement to jointly promote the implementation of an AI hospital and the transformation of medical AI, in line with the government's "AI Basic Medical Strategy." The two organizations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the 10th at KT Gwanghwamun Building West.
The collaboration is focused on developing AI medical services that can be applied in clinical settings. With the agreement as a turning point, the two organizations have begun full-scale project execution.
When implementing the AI hospital, the two organizations plan to support AI image interpretation for patients visiting Seoul Asan Medical Center. They also plan to build a system that automatically collects and analyzes health records scattered across multiple systems.
Based on this support, the two organizations believe medical staff will be able to make more accurate and faster diagnoses. The plan is also intended to help patients feel shorter waiting times and improved care quality.
KT and Seoul Asan Medical Center will also jointly pursue ways to identify and apply AX models for medical sites, such as next-generation hospital information systems. Cooperation tasks include AX-based clinical decision support and improved patient experience, with the goal of resolving a range of challenges in medical settings.
KT will support the refinement of service models and technical verification based on its core infrastructure and AX platform capabilities, and will take part in the planning and development process for clinical application-oriented AI medical services. Seoul Asan Medical Center will identify needs from clinical, treatment, and research settings, and provide clinical advisory support and effectiveness evaluations during the development, demonstration, and verification of AI services.
The two organizations plan to form and operate a working consultative body starting at the end of this month and move forward with detailed projects. In this process, KT will take charge of the infrastructure and platform side, while Seoul Asan Medical Center will handle medical-site needs and clinical validation.
Kim Bong-gyun, vice president and head of KT's Enterprise Division, said the company plans to bring together core technologies and capabilities for building an AI hospital with Seoul Asan Medical Center. He also said the two sides plan to jointly develop AI medical services that can be applied in medical settings, and expressed their intention to accelerate AX innovation in the medical field and lead future medical AI based on AX platform capabilities spanning AI, cloud, and data.
Source: IT DAILY · Seong Won-young
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