The beta version of the Family Physician Care Network is to begin testing today ahead of next month’s planned rollout to 5,000 clinics participating in the Family Physician Program, National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) Director-General Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) said yesterday.
The network is expected to be made available to the public in the latter half of next year, he said in a lecture at the four-day Healthcare+ Expo in Taipei.
As part of efforts to prioritize care for chronically ill people, the NHIA developed the Family Physician Care Network, an online platform providing personalized primary care information under the NHIA’s Family Physician Program, an integrated people-centered care initiative launched earlier this year, Shih said.
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The program aims to assign each person with a chronic disease to a family physician, with a focus on disease prevention, preventative care, risk prediction and monitoring of lifestyle factors, he said.
The program hopes to expand NHI services and access to health insurance plans from what it is now at 80 percent nationwide, he added.
The network would combine management of the “three highs” — blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels — preventative healthcare, cancer screenings, and tracking of metrics such as exercise, nutrition and sleep, Shih said.
After the one-month trial, it is expected to be formally rolled out in stages, first being offered next month to 5,000 family medicine clinics participating in the Family Physician Program, then expanded to medical institutions of all levels, he said.
The network also required clinics to set up cloud-based information sharing, Shih said.
From this month, 248 clinics would have already joined the NHI MediCloud, he said, adding that the goal is for 80 percent of all clinics and pharmacies to be on the cloud by 2028.
The cloud-based system would not only allow clinics to share information with the Family Physician Care Network, but also enable electronic prescriptions, virtual NHI cards, digital consultations and online medical records, Shih said.
The NHI cooperated with Google and Hon Hai to use artificial intelligence to launch the risk-ranking systems and predictive models, which would allow citizens to assess their own health data and make healthy changes, and to help doctors to use the classifications to manage and triage care, he added.
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