Taiwan”s leading research institute is applying its latest technologies to long-term care. The Industrial Technology Research Institute has partnered with Taiwan”s Chunghwa Senior Care and Japan”s Social Action Organization to offer a customized long-term care service, built with ITRI”s artificial intelligence and big data computing technologies. The venture aims to help Taiwan become a global leader in smart medicine and health care. It was made possible with support from the economics ministry.
With help from teleconference equipment, representatives from ITRI, a care service provider, and a Japanese company reach out to hit the start buttons simultaneously. With that, they inaugurated smart care 3.0.
Alex Y.M. Peng
ITRI executive vice president
For a person, an older person, most of the data will come from the home, or from the community. It won’t necessarily be from hospitals or medical institutions. This lets older adults know where on the scale their data falls, whether it’s trending up or down, what they should do, what they should eat, what they should wear, who they should engage with and what they should do. This achieves a very good, national care network.
With support from the economics ministry’s Department of Industrial Technology, ITRI established a smart medical care alliance last August. The alliance integrates technologies in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, communications, and information security, to create a new model for long-term care services. This year, ITRI partnered with a Japanese company and a domestic care provider to harness the power of big data. Their solution can digitize the everyday conditions of an older adult at home, to make care more convenient.
Alex Y.M. Peng
ITRI executive vice president
In the future, everyone from the individual to families, communities, institutions, and hospitals – everyone will be able to share this data. We can bring this data to the international level. Once it’s out there on the international level, the software and hardware will also be brought over. The entire medical care system for older adults might be reconstructed because of this data.
In its 2030 Technology Strategy & Roadmap, ITRI aims to apply technology to the domain of “quality health.” It’s focusing development on key technologies, such as those in smart medical electronics, regenerative medicine, and pharmaceutical research and development. Through cross-domain innovation, it’s building a fresh industrial ecosystem for smart medicine and care, and ushering in a new era of smart care for people of all ages.
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