Gwangju City, Recruiting Participating Institutions for AI Medical Support Platform

Recruiting 20 Sites for Phase 1 from 24th to June 4th... Phase 2 Targets 75 Sites in July

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City, the Artificial Intelligence Industry Convergence Project Group, and Gwangju Technopark announced on the 23rd that they will recruit local medical institutions to participate in the ‘Artificial Intelligence Medical Support Platform’ project from the 24th to the 4th of next month.

The Artificial Intelligence Medical Support Platform project, promoted as part of the citizen-experienced AI public medical service construction project, is a project that provides an AI-integrated medical support platform free of charge to local medical institutions to create an ecosystem for the healthcare industry, which has emerged as a new growth engine industry, provide customized advanced medical services that citizens can directly feel, and strengthen the competitiveness of the local medical industry.

The scale of medical institution selection is about 95 institutions. In the first phase, 20 institutions will be selected on a pilot basis to understand various medical treatments, operational conditions by type, and improvement points of medical institutions and to establish detailed project plans through opinion gathering.

In the second phase, about 75 institutions will be selected through a public contest in July, and from next year, the project plans to continuously expand the AI medical support platform to all local medical institutions by securing national funding.

Detailed information can be found in the announcements section of the Gwangju Technopark website starting from the 24th.

As part of the citizen-experienced AI public medical service construction project, Gwangju City is not only promoting this project but also building five local public health centers as ‘AI Health Centers’ for the first time nationwide, and is constructing the nation’s largest ‘AI Healthcare Demonstration Center’ within Nam-gu Bitgoeul Senior Health Town for elderly basic checkups and rehabilitation health management.

Upon completion of the project, participating medical institutions are expected to provide high-quality medical services to patients by shortening diagnosis and reading times using 12 types of AI diagnostic support services, including chest diagnosis certified by the K-FDA (Korea Food and Drug Administration), and improving examination accuracy.

In particular, collaboration with higher-level hospitals and other hospitals through existing examination data CDs will become possible remotely through advanced medical service system construction, enabling remote reading and online collaboration.

Additionally, the project is promoting the provision of a medical app that allows citizens to check medical imaging information, diagnosis and prescription information, and examination information in a one-stop manner to enable self-directed health management.

The healthcare data of individuals and medical institutions collected through this project will be stored, processed, and de-identified at the Gwangju Artificial Intelligence Convergence Complex National Data Center with individual consent and used for AI learning dataset development and customized AI product development for companies.

Son Kyung-jong, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Bureau, said, “Last year, we focused on infrastructure development such as the Gwangju AI Convergence Complex National Data Center to realize Gwangju as an AI-centered city, and this year, we plan to actively promote AI services that citizens can directly experience. We hope many local medical institutions will participate in this project, which was promoted to provide advanced medical services to citizens and foster the AI healthcare industry.”

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