First participation from the AI healthcare sector, proactively establishing ethical standards for medical AI

Establishes a framework for trust encompassing human rights, safety, and accountability

[April 16, 2026] AITRICS, a medical artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced on April 16 that it has developed an AI Ethics Checklist in collaboration with the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), marking the first such initiative in the AI healthcare sector.

The checklist was designed to assess compliance with ethical standards across the entire lifecycle of AI-based digital medical devices, from development and operation to post-market management. It consists of 10 core requirements and detailed evaluation items.

The checklist was developed as part of KISDI’s AI Ethics Assessment Framework project. AITRICS participated in the project, which began in late 2025, as a representative company from the AI healthcare sector and worked jointly to establish evaluation criteria that reflect the specific characteristics of medical AI.

As AI technologies are rapidly expanding across healthcare settings, the importance of ethical responsibility, including patient safety, data protection, and safeguarding clinicians’ decision-making authority, is becoming increasingly emphasized. In particular, as these technologies are directly tied to patients’ lives, there is growing demand for clear and trustworthy standards for their use that go beyond technical performance alone.

Against this backdrop, the AI Ethics Checklist was structured around 10 key elements covering the AI healthcare sector as a whole: protection of human rights, privacy protection, respect for diversity, non-infringement, public interest, solidarity, data management, accountability, safety, and transparency. Through these elements, the checklist is intended to support a systematic review of the wide range of ethical issues that may arise throughout the development and use of medical AI.

Based on this checklist, AITRICS plans to review compliance with ethical standards throughout the development and operation of its AI solutions and to continue strengthening its internal management system to support the safe use of medical AI in clinical settings. The company also expects that the checklist will help raise trust in the technology by clarifying standards for the ethical use of medical AI, while contributing to its stable adoption and broader use in healthcare settings.

Kwangjoon Kim, CEO of AITRICS, said, “This AI Ethics Checklist is meaningful in that it reflects key elements such as patient safety, clinicians’ autonomy, and the security of medical data, and serves as a benchmark demonstrating that our technology fulfills its ethical and social responsibilities”, said ”Moving forward, we will continue to advance both technological innovation and the establishment of ethical standards, while leading the industry”.