Building an AI program and opening a metaverse virtual hospital
Increasing Medical convenience and work efficiency while leading big data research
Medical institutions are occupied with efforts towards smart hospitals with various innovative technologies such as metaverse and artificial intelligence (AI) to advance the work efficiency of medical staff and the convenience of patient treatment.
Hallym University Medical Center spurred with its research capabilities in the convergence field of Hallym University and the medical center's healthcare technology.
■ AI program, real-time prediction of all hospital situations
Hallym University Medical Center first concentrated on constructing an AI-based program that enhances patient convenience. An impressive achievement is the 'command center medical condition real-time prediction AI program' developed by Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital in 2020. In this program, AI analyzes and predicts the treatment stage in real-time, according to the patient's priorities such as diagnosis, age, gender, and severity, thereby significantly diminishing the waiting time for examination, hospitalization, and discharge.
For example, the medical staff does not have to inspect the status of each bed in the intensive care unit when the ▲real-time critical care resource optimization system in this program is used. This is because having analyzed the information on the patients who are expected to enter and leave the intensive care unit, AI provides predicted values in real time to help patients to be hospitalized in the right place,
In addition, when assigning beds to patients, the bed allocation optimization system allocates the optimal bed in consideration of general criteria and more than 50 additional criteria, such as length of stay, integrated nursing service, and the professor's rotational movement.
Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital significantly enhanced the work efficiency of medical staff with AI. An outstanding example includes the 'AI voice recognition medical recording solution' presented in the operating room for the first time in Korea. In the past, doctors wrote the overall surgical procedure and specific details by hand after surgery, but now they can complete the entire process with spoken words.mIn addition, biometric arrival notification and facial recognition ward access systems enable patients to utilize the hospital more quickly and conveniently.
■ Metaverse Hospital efficiency from appointment to health care
Measures to introduce metaverse - a next-generation technology that encompasses all kinds of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)) - are also remarkable.
Hallym University Medical Center opened 'Hallym University Medical Center Metaverse Children's Burn Hospital (after this referred to as Metaverse Children's Burn Hospital)' on the Metaverse platform Gather Town last December. It provides suitable and high-quality medical services non-face-to-face and makes patients feel more familiar with the hospital in a virtual space without time and space constraints.
Metaverse Children's Burn Hospital is primarily divided into six areas: consultation room, classroom, exhibition, playroom, auditorium, and park plaza. It presents medical services such as burn safety and prevention, acute burn patient treatment, self-management after burns, and social welfare counseling. Also, since it is linked with the hospital website, patients can check the timetable and make a reservation for treatment. As burns require ongoing management, Metaverse Children's Burn Hospital is expected to be a practical information window for parents of burn patients.
Hallym University Medical Center is also leading the national project of AI new drugs based on big medical data, customized cancer prediction models, and new medical technologies to develop advanced medical services.
A representative example is the ‘2021 Smart Hospital Leading Model Support Project', which constructs a people-centered health model by improving patient experience, lessening medical staff work, and increasing hospital operation efficiency. In addition, by hosting the ‘2021 Medical Data-Centered Hospital Support Project' and linking, opening, and combining clinical medical big data for each hospital, Hallym University Medical Center is improving the quality of medical care. It is creating the data utilization ecosystem for industry-university-research joint research.
Hallym University Medical Center announced that it would develop an innovative data ecosystem and equip more convenient medical services through IT infrastructure and big medical data with consortium specialized hospitals.
