BE Health, Show Chwan Healthcare System, and IRCAD Taiwan have jointly launched a clinical validation accelerator program for healthcare startups with products or prototypes ready for validation and ambitions to expand into Asian and international markets.
Show Chwan Healthcare System is Taiwan’s largest private healthcare group, committed to patient-centered care and medical innovation. With a mission to bring advanced medical technologies and services to underserved communities, its healthcare network spans elderly care, maternal and child health, and comprehensive cancer care, offering startups diverse clinical settings for real-world validation.
Originating from IRCAD in Strasbourg, France, IRCAD Taiwan is a leading center for minimally invasive surgery training and research in Asia. Since its establishment in 2008, it has trained more than 12,000 physicians from over 80 countries and hosts nearly 100 workshops annually. Together with its advanced research resources and startup incubation center, IRCAD Taiwan provides an important platform for medtech startups to advance technology development, clinical validation, and healthcare innovation.
Established since 1973, still a leading trauma, orthopedics, digestive diseases, dental and ophthalmology center. The most comprehensive cancer center in Changhua county.
711 beds
State-of-the-art facility, with strong focus on innovation and patient experience
Where Ircad Taiwan, GLP animal, NGS lab are located
1126 beds
Located in one of the most underserved population in central Taiwan, offering 24 hour emergency services, telemedicine clinics to remote villages
337 beds
Located in the heart of Taipei city, offering chronic care, weight loss clinics, beauty clinics, as well as HIFU(High intensity focused ultrasound) treatment for gynecology diseases.
74 beds
Offering digestive disease, emergency services, community health services to underserved Changhua county.
First ROT hospital in Taiwan, since 1988
Emergency digestive disease, cardiac disease
622 beds
A landmark joint project with Ircad France since 2008, largest minimally invasive training center in Asia
First hospital joint venture fund in Taiwan focusing on early stage medtech
First GLP lab within a hospital system
The first hospital in Taiwan located within a science park, providing advanced medical care for residents in northern Kaohsiung and southern Tainan.
Built to a medical-center–equivalent scale, with a total capacity of 700 beds, including 420 specialized and critical care beds.
• Laparoscopic Surgery
• Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
• Hysteroscopic Surgery
• Vaginal Surgery
• Exoskeletons
• Robotic arm
• Capsule robots
• Microbots
• Medical Imaging
• Surgical planning
• Augmented reality
• Remote surgery