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Yonsei University Health System Considering Quantum Cryptography in Futuristic Hospital

By IQT News posted 28 May 2019

(SpectrumIEEE) Yonsei University Health System newest hospital next year will have incorporated some of technology’s most advanced technologies when it opens next year.
Very sick patients in isolation rooms can visit with holograms of their loved ones. Visitors will find their way around the hospital using an augmented reality (AR)-based indoor navigation system. Authorized medical workers will use facial recognition to enter secure areas. Patients can call a nurse and control their bed, lights, and TV with an Alexa-style voice assistant.
Yonsei and Korean telecommunications company SK Teleco announced that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to build technology for the futuristic hospital, scheduled to open in February 2020. SK Telecom will support the technology with a 5G network, and is considering securing it with quantum cryptography,

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