National Taiwan University Hospital is moving to the next phase of its big AI development to focus on multiple types of data.
The hospital recently acquired two new supercomputers from NVIDIA, which would help accelerate the development of intelligent healthcare applications.
This includes projects developing large multimodal language models to optimize operational processes and improve the quality of patient service, NTUH shared in a statement.
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NTUH first acquired NVIDIA’s AI supercomputers in 2020, which led to the development of various generative AI and extended reality applications.
Its Smart Healthcare Center, for example, has developed LLMs for automatic ICD-10 coding, automated generation of health check-up reports, automatically generated telemedicine consultation transcripts, voice recording reports emergency and extraction of key points in pathology reports. The NTUH IT office also applied LLMs to summarize medical records, generate reports, extract unstructured data, and answer medical questions. These LLMs have been integrated into the NTUH health information system.
With its supercomputing capability, the hospital has also developed a VR platform for surgical training called OpVerse.
Meanwhile, two major electronics makers in Taiwan recently announced plans to ambitiously build what could become the country’s largest supercomputing capacity. Foxconn, in partnership with NVIDIA, aims to develop Taiwan’s fastest AI supercomputer with over 90 exaflops of expected AI performance, potentially supporting cancer research and LLM development. Last month, Foxlink also unveiled its first supercomputing facility, Ubilink – also powered by NVIDIA – claiming to have Taiwan’s highest computing power to date.
Outside of Taiwan, two major healthcare hubs in Singapore, SingHealth and the National University Health System, have used supercomputers in recent years to accelerate the development of AI applications, including a Chatbot based on genAI and digital twin technology to monitor outbreaks.