South Korean Hospital Partners With AI Firm to Build Voice-Activated Smart Hospital System

K-medical | 2025-10-30 15:28:59
[medi K / HEALTH IN NEWS] The Inje University Foundation, Busan Paik Hospital, and artificial intelligence specialist Selvas AI have joined forces to develop a voice-recognition-based smart hospital platform. On October 28, the partners signed a “Joint Development Agreement for Voice-Recognition AI Smart Hospital” at Busan Paik Hospital, marking the launch of a digital health care initiative.

The collaboration merges the extensive clinical data held by the Baekjoong Medical Center network with Selvas AI’s 27 years of expertise in voice-based human-computer interaction. The goal is to create an AI system that automatically analyzes and summarizes conversations during patient encounters and stores them as electronic medical records (EMR).

Busan Paik Hospital will serve as the lead clinical site, supplying voice and text data from outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and inpatient wards. Selvas AI will refine its acoustic and language models, develop dialogue summarization and keyword extraction features, and integrate them with the hospital’s EMR system.

Kwak Min-cheol, CEO of Selvas AI (left), and Yang Jae-wook, director of Busan Paik Hospital, pose for a commemorative photo. (Photo provided by Busan Paik Hospital)
Kwak Min-cheol, CEO of Selvas AI (left), and Yang Jae-wook, director of Busan Paik Hospital, pose for a commemorative photo. (Photo provided by Busan Paik Hospital)


Selvas AI’s flagship product, SELVAS MediVoice, transcribes clinician-patient interactions in real time, generates medical records, and directly enters patient conditions and prescriptions into the EMR. The technology also supports verbal orders in emergencies, automated nursing documentation, and telehealth charting, promising gains in clinician efficiency and patient safety across settings.
Early training on real-world clinical audio has already pushed voice-recognition accuracy above 95 percent. The team plans to incorporate Busan-region dialect patterns into a customized model. Data collection begins in 2025, followed by pilot testing in 2026 and full hospital rollout targeted for 2027.

Yang Jae-wook, director of Busan Paik Hospital, said the system will allow clinicians to focus on care rather than documentation, reducing burnout and boosting productivity. “By building an AI-driven smart hospital, we aim to lead the digital transformation of health care,” he added.

Lim Hye Jung / press@themedik.kr
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