Min-Sheng Smart Medical City: Using Smart Medical Tech to Improve Care Quality and Create New Model of Care

With the advancement of technology, people's attitude towards medical care may remain unchanged, but the application of new technologies has brought opportunities to improve the quality of medical services. In this regard, Taiwan's Min-Sheng General Hospital (Missioncare Group) has established a new team to provide different aspects of medical service by integrating more innovative applications. Their latest accomplishment is the Min-Sheng Smart Medical City, which is only a five-minute drive from the Taoyuan Railway Station. At this convenient location, many of Missioncare's latest service models are being launched and implemented.

For example, the "Healthy Residence" in Min-Sheng Smart Medical City not only meets the needs of business customers due to its convenient location, but can also accommodate long-term residents. In addition, the environment is also optimized to provide a more comfortable and convenient living experience for residents suffering from sub-health. What is more, its smart medical care experience section provides a variety of applications and innovative products, including smart diagnosis, health promotion equipment, and so on, allowing users to experience different smart solutions at one place.

In fact, Missioncare Group created Min-Sheng Smart Medical City in a bid to promote smart care applications and improve medical quality and efficiency. With modern technology, Missioncare hopes to extend medical services beyond medical institutions and realize the vision of holistic care. For example, in terms of health management, the smart system can provide complete information reflecting the life of a user to help them receive more personalized services. With the data collected, the system may also design a medical care travel plan so that users can enjoy uninterrupted medical care services even when traveling.

Take a previous event, "Health Camp for Diabetics," for example: During the three-day event, diabetic patients underwent a number of physiological exams and were placed in three types of courses such as health education, exercise sessions, and stress-lifting games, where they learned how to control blood sugar from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective and how to use daily acupuncture care and essential oil massage to soothe their symptoms and stay well. During the entire camp, doctors and nutritionists accompanied the participants, and they could even bring their personal health care products for consultation in order to come up with a tailored plan of daily care. Of course, all meals provided were specially prepared for diabetics. The food not only meets the patients' health requirements, but is also composed of delicious and balanced diet.

These specially designed courses and physical exams, along with the group interactions, medical consultations, and other activities were all centered around the daily life of diabetics. But make no mistake, the Missioncare team does not just wish to offer a short-term package experience; instead, they endeavor to advise the most suitable living habits for each participant, who can then try to implement such advice at home.

Also noteworthy is that, during the event, there was in fact a gadget which helped all the diabetic participants, which is the "Digimed smart watch." The device has proven to be an important tool which can help patients execute good living habits in daily life. As the Digimed smart watch records body changes and tracks the data for a long term on the accompanying "Digimed Fitness App," users can examine their progress anytime, or even take a look at the numbers and differences in visualized forms. And these collected data are the key to connecting daily care with professional medical treatment.

"In order to make it easier for the elderly to use the Digimed smart watch, we have removed unnecessary functions to make the gadget more intuitive and user-friendly; now the battery can last for 7-10 days, which has greatly increased users' willingness to wear it," remarked Mr. Vincent Ho (CEO of Digimed) as he talked about the team's views on their smart watch model.

When it comes to choosing between innovative applications and product promotion, Missioncare never focuses on making profits from selling devices. Instead, it highlights how it can directly connect its health management goals and provide a complete solution package. To this end, the Min-Sheng Smart Medical City team is trying to tap the value of big data in the field of medicine in order to further enhance its service quality. For example, in terms of smart diagnosis, long-term data collected through the smart watch can make up for the problem that doctors can only make decisions based on on-site measurements in clinical settings. With the data collected in everyday life, doctors can boost the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosis. In terms of health management, health experts can also provide more personalized plans based on the user's personal data.

From clinics, pharmacists to accommodation experiences, Min-Sheng Smart Medical City envisions becoming a place that meets its users' various needs. Using data as the infrastructure, it also seeks to provide medical services to the public in different scenarios. Based on this premise, Min-Sheng Smart Medical City is in cooperation with many teams to create a platform that can accommodate a variety of products and services. From smart care mattress, smart sports mat to interactive pillows, care bells, or smart treadmills, all these devices can be connected to Missioncare's information system and transmit data to the platform in real time. Therefore, how to integrate the reading and connection of background information to ensure that new technologies and equipment are compatible with existing facilities is also one of the important factors which need to be taken care of for future development.

Digimed CEO Mr. Vincent Ho said, "We welcome cooperation from equipment manufacturers and remain open to different collab models." Be it proof of concept, new product trial, introduction into permanent service, or even new venture investment, there are currently actual cases in progress. After joining the IoT Service Hub, the resources of both parties have worked out its best and achieved maximum effectiveness. The many teams mentored by the IoT Service Hub have pitched in to bring a wealth of innovative applications to the successful model of Min-Sheng Smart Medical City. In the future, this venue will come into contact with so many people, which also provides excellent opportunities for new startup teams to promote their products and services.

When it comes to technologies in smart medical care, Taiwanese companies boast solid technology R&D, production, and manufacturing capabilities. However, they also suffer from a smaller market size and lack of international reputation. Now, as Min-Sheng Smart Medical City gathers an array of AIoT partners in different fields and the aid of the IoT Service Hub, the lineup can surely increase Taiwan's international fame in the area of smart medicine.