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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began planning a next-generation healthcare information system last year, with a planned large budget to address the outdated architecture of Taiwan's current healthcare information systems.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.