Forum sets October dates
The 2026 Global Health and Welfare Forum will run on Oct. 19–20 in Taipei, with 43 speakers and moderators from 11 markets, according to the organisers. The stated theme is "The Future of Global Care: Achieving Trust-Centric Digital Health", and the programme is organised around moving artificial intelligence, interoperable health data, precision medicine and new care models out of research and into use in hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical-device companies and care networks.
Speakers and their subjects
Karen DeSalvo, former chief health officer at Google and a professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, will address how AI governance can be translated into platforms and operating models. Allen Hsiao, chief health information officer at Yale New Haven Health, will discuss digital maturity and AI transformation inside a large health system, while John Gillman, who leads strategic health initiatives for Google in Asia Pacific, will cover FHIR-based interoperability and population-health infrastructure.
Andrea Cavalli, director of CECAM at EPFL, will connect genomics, computational methods and drug discovery, and Nick Watts, director of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine at the National University of Singapore, will look at AI in healthcare decarbonization. Long Phi Le of the AI Research Institute at Mass General Brigham will discuss patient foundation models, and Austin L. Chiang, chief medical officer for endoscopy at Medtronic, will examine large language models and computer vision in the operating room. Yu Shyr of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Joshua K. Lin of Mass General Brigham will focus on real-world evidence, electronic health records and claims data. The programme also covers community care, health informatics, medical imaging, surgical robotics, remote care and responsible algorithms.
Taiwan's digital health revenue
IEK Consulting of the Industrial Technology Research Institute put Taiwan's digital healthcare revenue at about NT$50.2 billion in 2022, a 10.1% year-on-year increase, with applications spanning prevention, diagnosis, treatment, telehealth and hospital information systems. A 2023 survey by the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute of the Institute for Information Industry found that more than half of domestic smart healthcare companies intended to keep investing in smart healthcare product research and development; 57% of them expected to add R&D staff and 65% planned to raise R&D spending.
Where to find details
Further information is listed on the forum's website.
