At a Glance
- Session: 09:00 Opening Remarks - (1) President Wu Mai-Szu (10 min), (2) Deputy Minister Lin Ching-Yi, "Taiwan's Healthcare Outlook" (10 min), (3) Superintendent Shih Chun-Ming, "The Past, Present, and Future of Taipei Medical University Hospital" (15 min); Chairman Lin Chien-Huang also gave opening remarks
- Coverage: President Wu Mai-Szu's remarks are not covered in these notes. The Lin Ching-Yi session is covered in full. The speaker for the Taipei Medical University Hospital opening remarks segment is inferred to be Superintendent Shih Chun-Ming based on the agenda order, but this has not been confirmed
Lin Ching-Yi: 1. From Treating Disease to Preventing Disease
Deputy Minister Lin Ching-Yi laid out four key directions.
- Cancer screening and adult health check-up ages are being lowered, so younger people start health promotion earlier
- Goal: this echoes the "Healthy Taiwan" policy - living longer should also mean living healthier, cutting down the years people spend in poor health
- The Health Coin program launches this year. Its core design idea is an immediate small reward: telling people that eating healthy will mean fewer heart problems in ten years doesn't really move them, but getting a Health Coin right after a check-up or a vaccine, and cashing it in for small rewards in daily life, actually changes behavior
- She pointed out a tension built into National Health Insurance: it's called "insurance," but the way premiums are set is actually more socialist in spirit, covering everyone under the same safety net. Health Coin brings back some of the personal responsibility that insurance is supposed to carry, this time on the prevention side
Lin Ching-Yi: 2. From Treating Disease to Governing Disease
- Thirty years of National Health Insurance data is Taiwan's most valuable asset. Following a constitutional court ruling (Judicial Yuan Constitutional Judgment No. 13, 2022), a dedicated law governing the health insurance database has now passed its third reading (the National Health Insurance Data Management Act, December 2025), including an opt-out right (see the Fact Check page)
- Disease governance needs to be tiered, not one-size-fits-all: data should help clinicians and policymakers design different approaches for different diseases
- Paired with the National Health Insurance app, so people can manage their own health data on their phones, with AI support for both healthcare workers and patients planned next
Lin Ching-Yi: 3. From Patient-Centered to Also Staff-Friendly Workplaces
Hospital governance shouldn't only center on patients; it also needs to look after frontline healthcare workers, their retention, and their working conditions.
Lin Ching-Yi: 4. From High Energy Consumption to Resilient, Energy-Saving, Sustainable Healthcare
- Healthcare is a triple-high-consumption industry, heavy on energy, resources, and labor, and it needs to shift toward sustainability
- Facing earthquakes, typhoons, extreme weather, and geopolitical risk, Taiwan is building up healthcare resilience preparedness, including plans for mass-casualty scenarios and drug supply chains (the program's official name is still unverified)
- She noted that Taipei Medical University is helping the Ministry of Health and Welfare push hospital energy-saving self-reporting and resilience preparedness
- Closing: marking Taipei Medical University's 66th anniversary and the hospital's 50th anniversary, the government will keep securing resources and pushing regulatory deregulation
Other Opening Remarks
- Lin Chien-Huang gave opening remarks as Chairman of the Board (the title shown on the on-site slide differs from some publicly available information online) (see the Fact Check page)
- Shih Chun-Ming, Superintendent of Taipei Medical University Hospital, spoke on "The Past, Present, and Future of Taipei Medical University Hospital," covering the hospital's 50th-anniversary theme and guest introductions, and introduced the first keynote lecture