Medical workers look at a monitor showing the intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients of a university hospital in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, on Nov. 29, 2021. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it had selected four hospitals to participate in an initiative to develop new smart hospital services.
The project is aimed at developing and verifying a leading model to improve patient safety and medical service quality by leveraging information and communications technology for medical domains.
Chungnam National University Hospital will focus on smart operating room technology and practices.
The hospital will establish a system that can verify the process of how patients are transferred from beds to operating rooms stage by stage, while giving guardians updates on how the surgery is proceeding in real time through a smartphone application.
A hotline will be installed to allow web-connected regional hospitals to be able to check the state of operating rooms at Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital, thereby allowing them to make preparations and reservations for emergency surgical procedures ahead of time.
Seoul National University Hospital and Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital will participate in the development of a smart hospitalization environment.
They will establish patient-centered applications, artificial intelligence (AI) emergency calls, and a real-time remote image communications system.
Severance Hospital, designated as a lead hospital for the education of patients and guardians, will establish a communications system connecting pregnant women, guardians and medical workers through a pregnant women care platform, while actively promoting a cooperative diagnosis with regional hospitals through a remote cooperative diagnosis platform.
Lina Jang (linajang@koreabizwire.com)
