Jong Soo Choi | Chief Technology Officer
Samsung Medical Centre

Profile

• Serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and IT Lead of the Office of Digital Transformation at Samsung Medical Center (SMC).
• Also holds a concurrent position as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Digital Health at SAIHST (Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology), Sungkyunkwan University
• Plays a leading role in advancing SMC’s digital innovation initiatives and international collaborations across data, AI, and smart hospital ecosystems.

Professional Activities

• Advisory Board Member, HIMSS INFRAM (Infrastructure Adoption Model) Working Group
• Member, HIMSS Global Health Education Committee (GHEC), 2026 ~ 2028
• Member, HL7 Korea Committee, 2026 ~
• Recipient, 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Award – Global Patient Innovator

Achievements

• Led Samsung Medical Center’s ascent in Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart Hospitals ranking -  from 31st (2021) to 15th (2026)
• Guided the hospital to become the world’s first HIMSS CCMM Stage 6 institution (2025)
• Achieved Quadruple HIMSS Stage 7 validations (INFRAM, EMRAM, DIAM, AMAM) and a perfect Digital Health Indicator (DHI) score by 2024