Naver Cloud said on the 10th that it signed a contract to supply the AI work collaboration tool "Naver Works" with Catholic Medical Center (CMC). With this adoption, Naver Works will be applied to another Big 5 hospital, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, following Asan Medical Center, speeding up the expansion of a digital collaboration foundation in medical settings.
CMC, which began with the opening of St. Mary's Hospital in 1936, is now the largest medical institution in Korea, operating eight affiliated hospitals and about 6,000 beds. Under the contract, Seoul St. Mary's, Yeouido St. Mary's, Uijeongbu St. Mary's, the Catholic Educational Foundation, the Catholic University's Sungsin Campus, revenue businesses, and other entities—22 institutions in total with more than 20,000 employees—will be linked in a single collaboration environment. Email and work messengers will be transitioned to cloud-based software as a service (SaaS).
Medical institutions have been cautious about adopting SaaS due to personal information protection, security, and legacy system integration issues, but CMC was reported to have given high marks to Naver Works' security framework and stability. The explanation was that the ability to operate stably even under large-scale concurrent access was a key factor in the decision.
On-site customized features were also introduced. Naver Cloud supports real-time PC status display and conditional access control by connection environment, allowing medical institutions to meet both required security levels and work efficiency. Going forward, it plans to expand to an intelligent work environment through message bot-based work support and AI integration.
Naver Cloud CEO Kim Yoo-won said, "The adoption by CMC, the largest medical network in Korea, is a case that proves our technological capability and operational competence," adding, "We will advance the service to become the optimal partner in medical and public sectors where security and stability are critical."
Naver Works was also selected as a collaboration tool for a pilot project of an intelligent work management platform based on a pan-government AI common infrastructure and has been in pilot operation since late Nov. last year at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministery of Food and Drug Safety, and the Ministry of Planning and Budget.