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Wu Hanzhang: Telemedicine and treatment take a big step forward

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The draft amendment to the "Regulations Governing Telemedicine Consultation and Treatment" will take effect next April, aiming to provide more convenient and safer services through telemedicine. It will allow video and telephone consultations, benefiting terminally ill patients and correctional facility inmates, with an estimated 7 million people benefiting. The post-pandemic era emphasizes the importance of telemedicine, shortening the distance between doctors and patients. Currently, health insurance reimbursement only applies to regional hospitals and clinics; large hospitals require out-of-pocket payment for telemedicine services. This aims to promote the rational allocation of medical resources and encourage the participation of large hospitals. The revision will have a profound impact on the medical information industry, assisting grassroots clinics in upgrading equipment, promoting the cloudification of medical information systems, improving efficiency, and promoting medical research and data analysis, laying the foundation for modernization and smart healthcare. The revised "Regulations Governing Telemedicine Consultation and Treatment" promotes telemedicine, laying the cornerstone for modern transformation and development, changing how patients seek medical care, influencing the medical information industry, and bringing more possibilities to the future of healthcare.

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Wu Hanzhang: Who should pay for smart healthcare?

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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.

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Wu Hanzhang: Opportunities Brought by Generative AI

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Generative AI technology is playing an increasingly important role in the healthcare field. Its high degree of automation and accuracy makes it a powerful tool for predicting diseases, diagnosing patients, and discovering new treatments. By analyzing patient records, generative AI can help physicians predict future health conditions and potential disease risks, providing earlier prevention and treatment measures. Furthermore, generative AI can quickly and accurately diagnose diseases, such as in lung imaging analysis. It can also accelerate new drug development, discover new drug targets, and predict their efficacy and safety. Combined with whole-genome sequencing technology, generative AI can provide more personalized treatment options, improve treatment outcomes, and reduce the risk of adverse reactions. Overall, generative AI technology brings opportunities for precision and innovation to the healthcare field, while also requiring attention to the challenges of protecting patient data privacy. Taiwan is working on developing trustworthy generative AI for healthcare through research on the Taiwan Sugi-2 AI supercomputer to provide smarter and more reassuring medical services.

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Wu Hanzhang: Vision for the Development of the Medical Information Industry

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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.

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