Taiwan and Thailand yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on validating artificial intelligence (AI) medical models, aiming to accelerate the commercialization of smart healthcare technologies, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said. The MOU, signed by the ministry’s Department of Information Management and Thailand’s Mahidol University, marks Taiwan’s first external AI validation mechanism and a pioneering global step in medical AI certification.
Under the agreement, Mahidol University will recommend AI medical models for testing at selected Taiwanese hospitals, while Taiwanese hospitals will partner with Mahidol’s affiliated hospitals to establish pilot validation sites in Thailand. The initiative will be supported by the ministry’s federated learning platform, which connects four clinical AI validation centers in Taiwan. By using federated learning, institutions can train models without exchanging raw patient data, reducing privacy risks while improving model reliability and stability, the ministry said in a statement.
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