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Taipei Medical University

Precision Medicine and Smart Healthcare: The Industrial Applications

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Overview

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Delve into the future of personalised medicine and healthcare

The course is designed with case studies. Taipei Medical University in collaboration with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), will introduce Taiwans’ examples of biomedicine. This five-week course will help you gain an in-depth understanding of the international trends in the development of precision medicine.

You’ll discuss the role of cross-industry cooperation to provide integrated and value-added services in the existing medical industry.

Next, you’ll explore the integration of technology, such as AI, to understand the future of precision medicine and healthcare.

Delve into the biomedical and healthcare industries

You’ll gain an overview of Taiwan’s biomedical industry, exploring the development of its healthcare and its advantages.

With this knowledge, you’ll unpack the role of multidisciplinary collaboration and innovation in smart healthcare. This understanding will also help you investigate what a global strategy on digital health could look like, as well as global healthcare.

Unpack the importance of healthcare technologies

In an ageing population, it is important to understand the elderly and a super-aged society.

On the course, you’ll delve into the typical healthcare issues that older people face and the technologies, such as regenerative medicine, that can help us respond to these issues and improve quality of life.

Gain an understanding of targeted therapy

Finally, you’ll unpack the trends and technology of targeted therapy. You’ll gain an understanding of what it is and how it can be used to treat specific healthcare issues such as cancer and glaucoma.

Guided by the experts at Taipei Medical University, you’ll finish the course with a strong foundation of knowledge of precision medicine and smart healthcare.

This course is designed for students, biologists, or researchers who would like to learn the basic concept of precision medicine, smart healthcare, regeneration medicine, and targeted therapy in different industrial applications.

Syllabus

  • Precision Medicine, AI, and the Future of Personalized Health Care
    • Definition of Precision Medicine and Basic of AI
    • Machine Learning in Biomedicine
  • Co-Creation Platform for Smart Healthcare at Taiwan Integration Biotechnology Industrial Center
    • The Biomedical Industries and the Advantages in Taiwan
    • Global Strategy on Digital Health
  • Technologies for Healthcare in a Super-aged Society
    • Needs Assessment: Understand Elderly
    • Technologies for Elders
  • Current Trends for Regeneration Medicine
    • Introduction to Core Technologies of Regenerative Medicine
    • Industrial Standards for Regeneration Medicine
    • Industrial Development of Regeneration Medicine
  • Targeted Therapy: The Trends and Its Technology
    • Introduction to Targeted Therapy
    • New Trends of Targeted Therapy
    • Assessment Time

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ITRI College

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