SKT Partners with GE Healthcare... Targeting the Digital Healthcare Cloud Market

SKT 5G MEC-Based Cloud Combined with GE Healthcare Solutions
Jointly Exploring New Business Opportunities and Government-Led Projects

Kang Hojun, Managing Director of GE Healthcare Korea (left in the photo), and Choi Pancheol, Head of Cloud Business at SK Telecom, are taking a commemorative photo after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for domestic digital healthcare business cooperation at Euljiro T Tower on the 27th.

[Asia Economy Reporter Joesulgina] SK Telecom is teaming up with GE Healthcare Korea to take the lead in the domestic digital healthcare market.

On the 28th, SK Telecom announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for business cooperation to lead the domestic digital healthcare business by combining its own 5G Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)-based cloud infrastructure with GE's healthcare solutions. GE Healthcare is a global company with over 100 years of business experience in the healthcare industry and approximately 50,000 healthcare professionals, generating annual sales of $16.7 billion (about 19.6 trillion KRW).

Going forward, the two companies will engage in comprehensive cooperation to discover and secure new business models in the rapidly growing digital healthcare market.

SK Telecom will provide a 5G MEC-based ultra-low latency network, cloud infrastructure, and operation management services to smoothly process large volumes of patient medical data generated at medical institutions. GE Healthcare Korea will be responsible for supplying and providing technical support for AI digital healthcare solutions such as ‘Mural,’ an integrated remote monitoring solution for infectious, critical, and emergency patient data; ‘Command Center,’ which acts as a mission control center analyzing hospital workflows; and ‘Muse,’ an electrocardiogram management solution.

In particular, the two companies plan not only to jointly enter the medical data digital transformation market by spreading digital solutions led by GE Healthcare’s remote patient monitoring solution ‘Mural’ and continuously discovering use cases utilizing SK Telecom’s 5G MEC and cloud infrastructure, but also to participate together in government-led digital healthcare projects.

Kang Hojun, Managing Director of GE Healthcare Korea, said, “GE Healthcare is pleased to collaborate with SKT on the digital advancement of the domestic healthcare industry through remote monitoring, artificial intelligence, and cloud technologies,” adding, “The synergy between GE’s digital healthcare solutions and SKT’s cloud infrastructure will enable us to provide optimal solutions for patients.”

Choi Pancheol, Head of SK Telecom’s Cloud Business, expressed expectations, saying, “With the high growth of the digital healthcare market anticipated due to COVID-19, the combination of SK Telecom’s ICT capabilities and GE Healthcare’s expertise in the medical field will bring innovative changes to the domestic digital healthcare industry.”

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