The development of digital technology also affects public’s thoughts on medical care. It extends from the concept of "prevention is better than treatment", pre-evaluating the risk of disease from the natural history of the disease, and accurately preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases, and taking care of the health of whole person. "Precision Health" will become an important development blueprint for Taiwan's health industry in the next 10 years. For this reason, the Institute for Information Industry, an organization dedicated to promoting digital transformation of the industry, officially joined the Missioncare Medicine Co. (*Note) Today, under the witness of Huang Guojin, Dean of the Beihu Branch of National Taiwan University Hospital. Subsidiary of Missioncare Medicine, ShareHope Medicinee Co., Ltd. signed the "Precision Health Ecosystem Strategic Alliance" to jointly create a "Precision Health Ecosystem" for Taiwan.
In this strategic alliance, Institute for Information Industry will provide IoT, smart technology, health data tracking and analysis technology, combined with the energy of the subsidaries of Missioncare Medicine, such as YES Chain Pharmacy, Taipei Harvard Health Checkup Center and Clinic, and Medzone Asia. Through the integration of OMO (Online-Merge-Offline), the traditional medical service model is over turned.
Four major cooperation goals to make pharmacies and hospitals smarter
When smart technology meets the medical industry, it will accelerate the birth of a new precision health ecology. Institute for Information Industry and Missioncare Co. signed a comprehensive strategic alliance and proposed four major cooperation goals. First, the general direction is to build a "smart pharmacy." by using AI facial recognition and blockchain technology to connect the health care products that people usually buy, with information about visits and combine daily health and medical records to develop holistic care based on big data analysis, and be a role model of operating platform ion the industry.
Another goal is to define an integrated service system standard for "5G Smart Hospital" to save patients' time in the hospital, use smart voice services to directly dictate diagnosis instructions and test reports, and integrate smart networked monitoring devices, which can be remotely grasp the patient's long-term physical and mental status and behavior, and issue warnings to notify medical staff when they are critical, which not only reduces the workload of nursing staff, but also enhances emergency response efficiency.
In terms of disease prevention, they will launch the "Health Checkup 2.0" personalized service. Combine regular health check routine with genetic testing can accurately locate the risk of disease which allows the public to know their health status in real time, preparing for future health in advance, and leading the development of data value-added service in the industry; the last focus of this cooperation is to continue to promote the "New Focus Point" smart care service, using many stores of Missioncare as sites, utilizing smart networking equipment verification technology to allow people to walk to the community sites to measure and track physical activities, rehabilitation effectiveness, and keep track of physiological status.
Overturning Traditional Health Care with Digital Transformation Institute for Information Industryx Missioncare aim to make Taiwan a better place
Zhenghong Zhuo, Chief Executive Officer of Institute for Information Industry, said: "The concept of bringing digital transformation to the healthcare industry to produce value-added services for customers requires a period of timeto adjust to the transition. In fact, Institute for Information Industry has established New Life Alliance since last year 2019 to corporate with Missioncare, successfully constructed YES Smart Pharmacy No. 1 and No. 2 demonstration stores, and established a digital health measurement integrated-management platform, which not only expands the service scope of the pharmacy, but also gradually implements precision health digital transformation; looking forward to this comprehensive strategic cooperation to create a future precision health ecosystem with 5G technology and digital intelligence with Missioncare."
Hung-Jen Yang, Chief Executive Officer of Missioncare, also said: "Information and technology is a force for innovation here at Missioncare, especially in the post-pandemic era, making healthcare industry of Taiwan go through digital transformation becomes more urgent. This comprehensive strategic alliance can really make digital technology and healthcare services combine perfectly, and create 5G smart hospitals, customized health checkup, and to combine with “New Life Point”, which combines health care networked devices and technologies. Through corporation with Institute for Information Industry, information and communication innovations will available to Technology, at a specific site, medical staff and user, and the user will provide feedback based on their experience, or the tracking and analysis of personal behavior data."
Guo-jin Huang, the Dean of the North Branch of National Taiwan University Hospital also stated that the integration of IT and healthcare is an inevitable trend, and supports hospitals to implement 5G-related applications, pharmacies use space to establish customized health management consultation, and precise health development. This cooperation will lead the innovation of Taiwan's healthcare industry.
Looking into the future, the Institute for Information Industry and Missioncare hope to optimize Taiwan’s digital medical commercial services through this cooperation. At the same time, they introduce new economic models into the healthcare industry, precaution of future technologies, and accelerate to achieve the new vision of Pretegic Health 2030.
Note: Missioncare started off as a 17-bed surgical hospital 45 years ago. In the past years, it has gone through scale expansion, enterprise reformation, transformation, and continuous upgrades through integration of resources from various areas, with points (hospitals, pharmacies), lines (integration of healthcare, medicine, and health checkup) and facets (from treatment to pretegic treatment), step by step, establish a holistic health industry ecosystem, which is rarely seen in Taiwan.
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