As Taiwan enters a super-aged society, long-term care and medical services are increasingly integrating. On the 3rd, Mackay Memorial Hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with Foxconn Technology Group and Shine Prestige Long-Term Care Group to combine AI wearable devices with real-time monitoring of elderly residents’ heart rate, blood pressure, and other vital signs, implementing remote smart healthcare. The pilot program will first involve about 250 residents at Shine Prestige’s residential long-term care facilities.

The signing ceremony was jointly attended by Mackay Memorial Hospital Superintendent Wen-Han Chang, Foxconn Technology Group B Business Group and Digital Health General Manager Chih-Hsiung Chiang, and Shine Prestige Long-Term Care Group Chairman Che-Hung Lin. The collaboration introduces AI wearable monitoring, telemedicine platforms, and exoskeleton-assisted systems to create an integrated smart long-term care demonstration model. Future plans include clinical implementation and cross-domain integration to develop comprehensive preventive care.

The collaboration highlights the provision of the AI wearable device “CoDoctor Watch” to about 250 elderly residents at Shine Prestige facilities. The device continuously records blood pressure, pulse wave, heart rate variability, and vascular elasticity, uploading data in real time to the cloud. AI models automatically analyze physiological trends, establishing a foundation for health management and reference data for medical care.

Superintendent Wen-Han Chang of Mackay Memorial Hospital stated that by combining medical care, long-term care, and technology, the goal is to help the public “age more healthily.” He hopes that, in the future, elderly residents in long-term care institutions, communities, and homes can all receive integrated care. Through high-tech interventions, the system helps monitor blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar in real time, enabling timely detection and management of issues and preventing bed confinement or more severe disability.

Chang further explained that the telemedicine integration platform allows real-time sharing of health data between hospitals and the community. Patients can immediately contact medical staff when needed, and hospitals can intervene promptly when monitoring detects issues. The platform’s alert system reduces medical response time from an average of 72 hours to under 12 hours. Mackay Memorial Hospital has established a professional standby team, including physicians (cardiology, radiology, and family medicine specialists), monitoring staff, and health managers, with plans to expand the team as demand grows.

Chang emphasized that platform-based monitoring and intervention create a “win-win-win-win-win” scenario: safer care for long-term care institutions and patients, support for the development of Taiwan’s health tech industry, and early intervention benefits the overall health economy. Initially, the program targets Shine Prestige’s residential facilities, but it will gradually expand to enable care delivery in every community, reducing the need for hospital visits, easing hospital congestion, lowering carbon emissions, and promoting sustainable development.

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