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Smart healthcare offers significant benefits but is also costly, with the burden of payment yet to be clearly defined. Hospitals benefit from technological innovation but face limited budgets; healthcare insurance bears a heavy burden and is constrained by resources. Government funding or encouragement of private investment in smart healthcare could potentially address this. Multi-party collaboration is needed to improve healthcare efficiency and enhance public health. Finding a balance is crucial to finding feasible solutions for smart healthcare.

Generative AI applications are rapidly emerging, but privacy and ethical issues must be carefully addressed to ensure trustworthy applications. Regulatory frameworks are gradually emerging, emphasizing trustworthy AI. Caution is needed regarding training, data, and computing power to ensure legality and privacy. Trustworthy AI is key to digital transformation.

"Computer Show Outlook: The successful post-pandemic event attracted numerous buyers. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's speech encouraged Taiwan's ICT industry to embrace the generative AI trend, which will drive new developments in the biotechnology field. Generative AI will assist in new drug development, precision health, and biomanufacturing, accelerating innovation and discovery, enhancing the competitiveness of Taiwan's biotechnology industry, and propelling future prosperity."

This article discusses the current status and challenges of digital healthcare development in Taiwan and offers suggestions. Taiwan's healthcare information industry is relatively small, with large hospitals mostly developing their own healthcare information systems. The technology of these existing systems is gradually falling behind cloud-based software architectures. Furthermore, the percentage of software talent invested in healthcare information over the past decade has been very low, hindering the realization of the digital healthcare aspirations of the nation. However, the Ministry of Health and Welfare began planning a next-generation healthcare information system last year, with a planned large budget to address the outdated architecture of Taiwan's current healthcare information systems. The author proposes that this is an opportune time to restructure Taiwan's healthcare information industry, encouraging large hospitals to gradually shift towards purchasing high-quality products and actively fostering large, internationally-capable flagship healthcare information companies that can provide reliable and highly scalable healthcare information solutions, possess integrated comprehensive patient data, interface with international data standards, export to overseas markets, and establish an application ecosystem. Ultimately, Taiwan's healthcare information infrastructure can connect with the international market, potentially attracting top-tier digital software talent to continue investing in the field.