Taiwan takes a living-room clinic to Singapore

SINGAPORE, 9 September 2026 — Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council went to Medical Fair Asia with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and 27 teams, hospitals and companies in the same party. The fair is the largest health and device show in Southeast Asia. It ran from 9 to 11 September. The Taiwan MedTech Pavilion opened on the first morning.

Su Chen-kang, a deputy minister at the council, stood for the opening with Tong Chen-yuan, Taiwan's representative in Singapore, and Lars Wismer from the fair. The council supplied the photographs.

This year the pavilion was not a row of boxes. It was dressed as a home. A health mirror, a remote-care kit, and a system that holds the readings sat in a living room. The line they used was that the living room is the clinic: a reading, a warning, an online visit, then rehab after an operation.

Before the doors opened, Show Chwan, the Changhua hospital group, signed a letter of intent with SingHealth, Singapore's largest public healthcare group. The note covers smart hospitals, clinical work, and surgical robots. During the fair the council and the Industrial Technology Research Institute went to SingHealth to see where the work would actually sit. ITRI is the one staying on the follow-up.

The council also tied the trip to ACE, Singapore's Action Community for Entrepreneurship. Taiwan brings factories, pilot lines, and places to test a device. Singapore brings finance, lawyers, intellectual property, and a way into other markets.

The council says Southeast Asia is spending hard on digital care, and that Taiwan's hand is its chip industry, its communications firms, and the clinical records its hospitals already hold. On the fair's own stage, Taiwanese hospitals and tech firms talked about smart hospitals, care that crosses departments, and what they call a hospital without walls.

The two photographs with this story are the council's. One is the opening line. The other is the 27 teams in front of the pavilion.