At the 2024 Smart Healthcare Summit organized by the economics ministry, top industry players from Taiwan and abroad explored AI applications in medical care. The Industrial Technology Research Institute, or ITRI, showcased its latest AI-powered innovations, such as a generative AI assistant that produces medical records. It also displayed a system that uses AI image recognition to support pulmonary endoscopies.
Organized by the economics ministry, the 2024 Smart Healthcare Summit put the spotlight on AI applications. The world’s biomedical leaders were invited to participate, to give Taiwanese firms a chance to connect and collaborate.
Eric Chuang
ITRI vice president
ITRI has invested significant resources into developing AI for a variety of fields. In Taiwan today, all the major medical centers and hospitals are moving toward becoming smart hospitals. ... How do we use AI to support hospital operations? Due to the three, four years of the pandemic, telemedicine has become an important field today.
Tai Chien-cheng
Department of Industrial Technology official
Taiwan is not only a medical device user, but also inventor as well as a producer. The forum brought every essential factors, players together.
With support from the economics ministry’s Department of Industrial Technology, ITRI invested R&D resources in pursuing AI health care opportunities.
This is a generative AI assistant that works as doctors converse with their patients. Using speech recognition, it converts audio containing both English and Chinese, as well as medical terminology, into medical records, helping to ease the physician workload. AI can also be applied to lung examinations and procedures. During a traditional endoscopy, a thin tube is moved down to the lungs, in a process that relies on physician experience. AI-assisted image recognition can be used to guide the endoscope to problematic tissue, making the procedure safer and more efficient.
Rodolphe Katra
Medtronic VP of artificial intelligence
You need good universities, good talent, good health care systems, government support, and recognition of international intellectual property participation. … It makes Taiwan a very good candidate for participating in the global space for health care, using AI.
The biomedical industry will be the next “sacred mountain” that protects the nation, ITRI said. It urged Taiwan to harness its medical and tech strengths to shine bright on the global stage.
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30 сен 2024
