Samsung Medical Center Director Park Seung-woo on the 7th emphasized innovation to lead "future medicine" at a ceremony marking the 31st anniversary of the hospital's founding at the main auditorium of Samsung Medical Center in Gangnam District, Seoul.
Park said that day, "We began this year with the grand ambition of a great transition to a hospital leading future medicine," and "We will take major steps to achieve innovation through the artificial intelligence (AI) transformation (AI Transformation, AX) that has become the theme of the times."
Park said, "We will pioneer medical IT," and "Together with the Samsung Medical Center family, we will create a better path so we can do even better the complex treatments we have done well so far for severe, essential, and intractable diseases."
Samsung Medical Center, which opened on Nov. 9, 1994, has made aggressive investments to secure outstanding medical staff and care infrastructure with the goal of "creating a new medical culture," earning global recognition. This year, in the Worlds Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 released by the global current affairs weekly Newsweek, it was selected No. 3 in the world for cancer treatment for the second consecutive year. The hospital said, "Given that the No. 1 and No. 2 institutions are U.S. cancer specialty hospitals, this once again proves that, on a general hospital basis, Samsung Medical Center is effectively No. 1 in the world."
Samsung Medical Center became the first in the world to achieve Stage 7, the highest level, in four of the six areas (EMRAM, INFRAM, DIAM, AMAM) certified by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and it also scored a perfect 400 in the Digital Health Indicator (DHI) assessment.