Large language models are increasingly emerging as a foundational layer in hospital digital transformation in South Korea.
However, to further translate AI's potential into routine clinical practice, stronger national policy, reimbursement, and infrastructure support might be necessary.
Recently, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, flagship hospital of the Catholic Medical Center (CMC) of the Catholic University of Korea, began piloting CMC GenNote, an LLM-based clinical documentation system developed with PuzzleAI.
The AI scribe is the first of many AI-driven innovations planned across one of the country's largest private non-profit healthcare networks.
The deployment is part of a smart hospital strategy at Seoul St. Mary's that treats LLMs not as standalone tools but as core infrastructure for reshaping clinical, operational, and research workflows – from documentation and diagnostics to nursing, pharmacy, and patient engagement – under a tightly governed, on-premise AI environment.
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