By Amy McDonough
Publication Date: 2026-03-04 00:00:00
Finding health risks earlier can make all the difference. That’s the goal of a collaboration between Google and Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), which uses Gemini to help doctors analyze data from Taiwan’s unified health system. Even with one of the best health systems in the world, doctors’ time is limited, and AI can help them make the most of it. Today, we’re sharing how Gemini technology is helping doctors spot health risks earlier than ever before. Taiwan’s health system is a global leader, with a single payer and population-scale healthcare database that has helped care for almost all Taiwanese for over 20 years. But even with great data, doctors only have so many hours in the day.
From weeks of work to a few seconds
The first major milestone in this collaboration is AI-on-DM (Artificial Intelligence on Diabetes Mellitus), an AI model by NHIA under the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) that helps assess diabetes risk. Previously, a risk…
