Digital therapeutics specialist Hi announced that it held an opening meeting on February 18 at its headquarters in Jongno-gu, Seoul to launch a full-scale project to support the digital transformation of AI-based medical systems.
This project is part of the Precision Medical SW Service Construction Support Project of the National Information Society Agency. It is being carried out to improve the level of medical welfare through the spread and use of digital healthcare in major national public hospitals across the country. Hi plans to successfully complete the pilot project in four medical institutions in 2024 and expand the scale and period this year.
The institutions that have decided to participate in this demonstration project are eight public medical institutions: Seoul Metropolitan City Boramae Hospital, Kangwon National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Pusan National University Hospital, Chonbuk National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Hospital, National Rehabilitation Center, and Seoul Red Cross Hospital. Hospitals in the Jeju Island area are also expected to be added to the participating institutions.
Hi will provide tablet-type products equipped with stroke post-speech rehabilitation digital healthcare products currently under development to participating institutions. Participating institutions will use the products for three months after recruiting subjects, and will focus on not only the degree of improvement in users’ language impairments but also the improvement and supplementation of digital healthcare utilization within hospitals. In particular, the scope of the second-year project will be expanded to conduct research on reducing the risk of stroke patients’ recurrence. The verification period for this project will be three months in total, and it is scheduled to be conducted starting in the second quarter of this year, targeting more than 150 stroke patients.
Professor Kwon Hyung-min of Seoul Metropolitan Boramae Hospital, who is leading the verification of this project, explained the significance of this verification by saying, “I have been very interested in how to improve the quality of medical services provided to patients by utilizing digital healthcare in the medical field,” and “Through this verification opportunity, I will strive to create a case that is helpful to both medical institutions and patients.”
“I would like to thank the medical staff who understood the purpose of this project and participated without hesitation,” said Kim Jin-woo, CEO of Hi. “The various cases and areas for improvement collected through this large-scale demonstration will serve as very important basic data for improving the universal medical welfare of patients using digital healthcare, which the government is currently promoting.” He expressed his will to successfully promote this project.
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