President Tsai Ing-Wen attended the opening ceremony of the Healthcare+ Expo Taiwan at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center.  The four-day event, which brings together 410 exhibitors from 10 countries, with more than 1,300 booths demonstrating groundbreaking technologies, ends on Sunday. President Tsai expressed that Taiwan has a clear goal which is to speed up the cross-industry integration and to continue to expand Taiwan’s advantages in the healthcare industry.

In her speech, President Tsai encouraged the healthcare industry to go global as the world is experiencing a reshuffle in the post-pandemic era.  Taiwan needs to accelerate the cross-industry integration, said President Tsai. 

President Tsai expressed that in order to increase Taiwan’s biopharmaceutical industry’s competiveness, the government formulated the “Strategic Plans for the Development of the Precision Medicine Industry”, hoping to build a national brand of precision medicine through cross-departmental and cross-disciplinary cooperation.

The Taiwan-US science and technology agreement, which was signed a few years ago, includes biomedical collaborations, such as to promote precision medicine through the collaboration in communication technology.  In addition, the MOHW is going to relax the regulations to allow Taiwanese hospitals to set up hospitals in Southeast Asia so as to maintain Taiwan’s influences in healthcare.

The Healthcare+ Expo Taiwan was organized by IBMI.  Dr Wong Chi-Huey, the IBMI President, expressed his gratitude to the “Blueprint of a Grand Healthcare Industry” proposed by hospitals in Taiwan in 2017 about new strategies of using hospitals as an industrial development platform which combines the IT advantages and the R&D capacity in order to accelerate biopharmaceutical innovation and clinical application.  The purpose is to push the development of the whole industry chain.  The Healthcare+ Expo Taiwan showcases the public-private collaboration.

Dr Yang Pan-Chyr, Vice President of the IMBI, expressed that the Healthcare+ Exop Taiwan continues to create new strategies for the industry’s development.  This year’s exhibition has successfully integrated the precision medicine industry chain.  The exhibition hopes to lead the next wave of economic development in Taiwan based on the 3 axes of medtech, biotech and healthtech.

【2022-12-02 / Economic Daily】