On 10 June, the Korea Smart Healthcare Association and SL Foundation, a developer of a protocol that collects and analyzes medical data, signed a memorandum of agreement (MOU) to form a strategic partnership focused on medical technology -innovation and improving worldwide public health. The aim is to develop a new medical platform with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and multimodal technologies.
The Korea Smart Healthcare Association plays a leading role in the digital health care sector in South Korea, to support the development of digital medical devices. The members include hospitals at the highest level such as Seoul National University Hospital, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital and Korea University Anam Hospital, as well as companies such as Kakao Healthcare. The association works with support from important government agencies, including the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Science and IT.
Both organizations will work on cooperation research and commercial initiatives among the MOU. These include building a multimodal medical data set, creating a platform for training explanatory AI (XAI) models and launching a marketplace for AI applications in health care.
The partnership also includes the development of AI-driven medical devices, blockchain systems for safe data processing and transparent AI training processes. The native token of SL Foundation will be used for data transactions within the platform, to support a decentralized approach to sharing medical data.
In addition to technology development, the agreement comprises academic cooperation, joint research programs and personnel training to support progress in personalized healthcare and to improve transparency in medical research.
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