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International Cooperation

6. Improved Healthcare Systems for COVID-19 inspection and verification when
(1) Completed the analysis of our country's integrated citizens travel abroad.
inpatient care service model and certification 8. Established a Model for Diverting Child and
systems for nursing assistant and clinical nurse Adolescent Reporting Cases
educator. This serves as a reference for the pilot Utilizing AI and machine learning techniques, we
program of comprehensive health insurance integrated the network service information to
integrated inpatient care services, enhancing the establish an evidence-based model for diverting
quality of inpatient care and reducing the workload child and youth reporting cases. By incorporating
in the nursing profession. qualitative guidance for child and adolescent
(2) Establish standards, mechanisms and examples diversion, we aimed to assign cases to the most
of pre-established medical processes for nurse appropriate service system, ensuring timely
practitioners, organize 20 training workshops, provision of supportive and protective services to
and finalize local pre-established medical individuals, while reducing the workload of social
processes training materials for reference and workers involved in case screening and assignment.
application in hospitals to improve the quality of
Section 2 Developing Innovative and
care for nurse practitioners and patient safety.
Translational Research
7. Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases
1. Technology patent licensing
(1) Developed a rapid diagnostic system for Japanese
encephalitis virus that exhibits better sensitivity (1) Successfully transferring research outcomes
and specificity performance than the currently through technological transfer in 2022, the
available commercial rapid reagents. Additionally, technology is named as follows:
we have effectively utilized the BIOFIRE® National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine
Filmarray Respiratory 2.1 plus Panel tests to 102(NRICM102)
detect cases of unidentified infectious diseases. (2) The total income from research and development
Established standardized AI-based epidemic results was NTD 9,128,108 in 2022, as shown in
prevention demonstration sites in remote tribal Figure 12-1.
areas, interconnected with the National Center
2. Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic
for High-Performance Computing, to monitor and
(1) Stable R&D Group of Central Epidemic
analyze the correlation between air quality and
Command Center and Technical Support
infectious diseases.
Platform Operations
(2) Created a surveillance panel for avian influenza
A. President Liang, Kung-Yee led the R&D group
outbreaks for both domestic and international,
to continue inspecting the domestic and
incorporating automated statistical and visual
international pandemic prevention experience,
analysis functions to enhance the integrity
and provided foresighted thinking on applying
and timeliness of epidemic monitoring data.
technology to epidemic prevention for the
Established a network platform for comparing
government policy making.
pathogen data of Campylobacter in real-time,
aligning with the prevention and control of B. Supportive platform for developing SARS-
zoonotic diseases and enabling swift assessment CoV-2 screening and analytics techniques:
of the scale of outbreaks. Matching was conducted to provide institutes
with technical supporting for their preclinical
(3) Optimized the code management, remote
testing, thereby creating a trigger mechanism
backup, and overall cybersecurity protection of
for specimen applications.
the disease control agency. Added integration
with the "Digital COVID-19 Certificate Issuance C. COVID-19 Biobank: Blood specimens
Platform" to access the "COVID-19 Testing Data" and clinical data were offered for epidemic
dataset, facilitating compliance with regulations prevention R&D. TFDA used the sources to

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