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South Korea opens its Public Healthcare AI Highway in eight public hospitals
See how this story connectsSouth Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare opened the Public Healthcare AI Highway at Gangwon National University Hospital in Chuncheon on 11 November 2026. The system links hospitals’ electronic medical records and drafts referral letters, pre-anaesthesia assessments and discharge summaries for doctors to check and sign; in a demonstration a referral letter that takes 10 minutes or more by hand was drafted in under a minute, and the ministry says it can take as little as 10 seconds. It runs in eight public hospitals this year on a 3.2 billion won budget; the ministry plans to expand it to up to 35 hospitals from April 2027, with 7.1 billion won planned for that stage, and aims to cover all 72 public hospitals by 2029.
Why it matters
Regional public hospitals get medical AI models validated at Seoul National University Hospital and other hospitals, run on national GPU computing, with doctors signing every AI-drafted document.
- When
- 11 Nov 2026
- ID
WTA-N-2026-0833- Where
- South Korea
- Who
- Ministry of Health and Welfare, Gangwon National University Hospital, Seoul National University Hospital
- Topics
- Clinical AI, Public services
Summary written with AI by wheresthe.ai, from Yonhap News Agency (Korean). Checked against the source on 11 Nov 2026.
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WTA-N-2026-0833: “South Korea opens its Public Healthcare AI Highway in eight public hospitals.” wheresthe.ai, 11 Nov 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-south-korea-opens-public-healthcare-ai-highway-2026-11/ (source: Yonhap News Agency (Korean)).
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