This is a partial quote from a Maeil Business Newspaper article.
https://v.daum.net/v/20260329175402576
https://www.mk.co.kr/news/it/12001791
Medical professionals who want to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks are waiting for artificial intelligence (AI) to be implemented in the field. Even if AI such as large language models (LLM) are introduced only for document work like medical certificates, work efficiency would increase significantly.
According to analysis results from Seoul National University Medical School's Medical Big Data Research Center on the 29th, if medical certificates and medical opinions are written using existing medical LLMs, the so-called "Big 5" domestic tertiary hospitals would be able to treat an additional 300 to 600 patients per hospital per day. A medical certificate is a document that substantiates a physician's diagnosis of a patient's health condition, and a medical opinion is a document in which a previous physician clarifies clinical findings for reference when a patient receives treatment at another medical institution.
This year, Korean medical certificates created at Seoul National University Hospital averaged 411.5 cases per day, and medical opinions averaged 51.0 cases per day. The time it takes physicians to summarize and organize medical records into medical certificates or medical opinions is known to be an average of 5 minutes and 15 minutes, respectively. Considering this, Seoul National University Hospital physicians spend more than 47 hours per day on writing medical certificates and opinions. If AI were to do this work instead, during the remaining 47 hours, physicians at Seoul National University Hospital could treat an additional 353 patients.
Professor Lee Kyu-eon of Seoul National University College of Medicine said, "Last year, the average daily number of outpatients at Big 5 hospitals was about 50,000. Even if only medical certificates and opinions are replaced with LLM, Big 5 hospitals would be able to treat an additional 2,094 patients per day," he added. [Remaining content omitted]
