Sciths (458870), a wearable artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic monitoring company formerly known as Seers Technology, said Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Yonsei Song Internal Medicine Clinic to develop an integrated home healthcare management model.
The two organizations plan to expand a pilot program for community-based home hospitalization, validate clinical pathways by disease category using digital healthcare technology, and pursue the digital transformation of home healthcare centers in stages. The partnership draws attention as a collaboration between home healthcare centers, a key player in integrated care and community medicine, and a specialized AI patient monitoring company.
Sciths has earned recognition for both clinical effectiveness and business viability in the diagnostic and patient monitoring fields based on wearable biosensors and AI technology. The company currently provides its arrhythmia diagnostic service "MobiCare" to approximately 1,000 hospitals nationwide, and its real-time inpatient monitoring system "Thync" has been installed in a cumulative total of 17,000 hospital beds. Since its early days, Sciths has developed wearable AI-based home monitoring systems for discharged patients through collaborations with numerous university hospitals.
Song Dae-hoon, director of Yonsei Song Internal Medicine Clinic, has continuously developed community-based service models linking visiting medical care and home hospitalization based on his extensive clinical experience, and has also served as a director of the Korean Home Healthcare Association.
Through this partnership, the two organizations plan to implement an integrated home healthcare management model covering home monitoring for transitional patients, home admission and discharge management, and end-of-life home care. If clinical effects such as reduced readmissions and improved treatment efficiency are verified through real-world demonstration projects with actual patients, the results could serve as evidence for institutionalizing home hospitalization reimbursement and for spreading a commercially viable standard model.
"Home healthcare is not about replacing the functions of hospitals, but about making medical care continue within patients' lives," Song said. "Through this partnership, we will more systematically develop the home hospitalization model that has been validated in clinical settings and create a standard model that actually works."
"Through our collaboration with Yonsei Song Internal Medicine Clinic, which has led home healthcare in Korea, we aim to implement a patient full-cycle monitoring platform covering hospitalization, post-discharge care, and even end-of-life care," Sciths CEO Lee Young-shin said. "We will set a new standard in the rapidly growing global remote patient monitoring and home healthcare market."
