CDTB Colloquium – Phillips Korea seeking ‘a better way for healthcare’ through digital transformation

CDTB Colloquium: Phillips Korea guest lecture was held at LG-POSCO SUPEX Hall.

The CDTB Colloquium was held on July 22nd (Wed) at LG-POSCO SUPEX Hall, hosted by KUBS (Dean=Jae-wook Kim) and organized by the Center for Digital Transformation & Business (CDTB).

The guest speaker of this lecture, Hyo-seok Kim (Head of Monitoring Analytics & Therapeutic Care and Solutions, Philips Health Systems), gave a lecture on ‘Healthcare Digital Transformation & Smart Hospital.’ Dean and Director of CDTB, Jae-wook Kim, Vice Director of CDTB, Byeong-cho Kim, Associate Dean, Chris Chang-wha Cung, Associate Dean, Bae-ho Kim and 35 pre-registered students attended the lecture, while all of them were wearing masks and keeping social distancing. And 38 students attended the lecture via online platform as well.

Prior to the welcoming speech, Jae-wook Kim introduced Seung-hyun Yoo, a professor of endocrinology of Korea University Anam Hospital. He said “I once again realize that the digital transformation is not an issue related only to Business Administration. By interdisciplinary collaboration, I hope Korea University will become a cradle educating talented youths that will lead the digital transformation age.”

The lecture was comprised of two sessions introducing the overall healthcare industry and collaborative treatment methods for COVID-19 patients. In the first session, he emphasized the four crucial issues of the healthcare industry, which are △improving treatment results △convenient hospital experience of the patient’s guardians △improving the quality of life for medical staff △reducing medical costs. Due to aging and increasing chronic illnesses, he predicted a lack of medical staff and explained that digitization of treatment is necessary. In the second session, he emphasized that collaborative treatment among hospital networks using patient surveillance equipment should be activated in treating COVID-19 patients. He showed the foreign cases of collaborative treatment contributing to management of COVID-19 patient and explained that the lack of medical staff could be supplemented through this system.

During the Q&A session followed the lecture, as a response to the question about how the development of the medical technology industry will affect consumers, he answered, “patients and guardians are taking more preventive and detailed treatment through the healthcare industry”.  “Smart hospitals are contemplating the requests of introducing application to manage treatments and payment processes more easily, and continuous attention is needed for improving the system”, he added. And he finished the lecture by asking to keep an eye on the related industries.

Meanwhile, KUBS founded the Center for Digital Transformation & Business (CDTB) in 2019 as a platform to lead the digital transformation era and promote connection between industry, university, and institute. CDTB is planning to carry out various special lectures on DT.