Internet Hospital

Telehealth aims to enhance patient care through live video consultations and tele-pharmacy services. Technological advancements now allow convenient scheduling and online doctor consultations. Telehealth provides secure and high-quality remote medical assistance, offering a safe and easy way to access necessary healthcare. Board-certified physicians cover various specialties, providing video-based clinical consultations and remote prescriptions for streamlined and direct clinical care.

Taiwan achieved nearly 90% adoption of its Electronic Medical Records System, moving from Stage 6 to Stage 7 nationally in 2019. This success involved significant digital enhancements in hospitals, including the creation of an e-Hospital integrating imaging equipment, instrument automation, and hospital management.

The core of Taiwan's healthcare appointment system revolves around the National Health Insurance (NHI) card, which transforms patients' access to medical services by functioning as a comprehensive medical record. This smart card empowers patients to seek medical assistance from any healthcare provider within the NHI system. The system's electronic appointment scheduling feature enhances convenience, allowing patients to book appointments in advance, thereby minimizing wait times and ensuring timely care.

The NHI MediCloud system furnishes healthcare professionals with access to patients' medical information, promoting drug safety and improving healthcare quality. Utilizing the system online, medical professionals can review patients' essential data and images during visits or hospitalizations. Securely facilitated through a virtual private network, healthcare professionals can retrieve patients' records, encompassing details on medications, surgeries, tests, exams, medical images, and histories of drug allergies.

QR-code prescription can provide community pharmacists an efficient, accurate and inexpensive device to digitalize the prescription contents. Consequently, pharmacists can offer better quality of pharmacy service to patients.

Imagine seamlessly tracking and securely sharing real-time data from ambulance operations with hospitals using 5G technology and Edge Computing. This approach, currently in trials, allows ambulance medics to access patient data on-the-go. In the future, this technology will enable digital healthcare applications to operate in real-time anywhere, enhancing on-site treatment in moving ambulances or remote areas.