How Taiwan Used Big Data, Transparency and a Central Command to Protect Its People from Coronavirus

Blog#2 How Taiwan Used Big Data, Transparency and a Central Command to Protect Its People from Coronavirus


The article pointed out that Taiwan used previous experience and big data analysis to control the spread of the virus. The author points out that Taiwan has integrated its National Health Insurance database with the immigration and customs database and started to create big data for analysis. In this way, they can generate real-time alerts during clinical visits based on travel history and clinical symptoms to identify cases. In addition, schools, public places, or travelers need to fill out forms before the government can know whether people have been to high-risk areas. If those who have been to high-risk areas are quarantined at home and tracked through mobile phones to ensure that they stay at home during the incubation period. However, although big data is of great help to Taiwan, and we do control the disease, I think big data involves private information. If the government wants to have a resident database, people will need to provide personal information. I think this is related to cultural differences. In Taiwan, people can accept and abide by this policy. However, in most Western countries, people cannot adopt it, so for them, privacy protection is indeed very important. In addition, restricting individual freedom is a serious problem for them. After reading this article, I realized the advantages and disadvantages of big data. This technology can provide a lot of help in our daily life, but people also need to pay for it. In addition, I hope everyone can use big data correctly like Taiwan. Finally, I want to say that it is an honor to be a resident of Taiwan.

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  1. D0721674June 25, 2020 at 1:05 AM

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    Thank you for the article sharing. This is great to know that how do Taiwan reacts and their usage on big data to handle the global virus. Taiwan is close to the coast of mainland China and it is s expected to be severely hit by coronavirus. However, it did not and they even did a better performance than those western countries that located far away from mainland China. So there are few steps that Taiwan has taken to protect themselves and it is very valuable for other countries to learn. First, Taiwan government established the National Health Command Center (NHCC) after SARS for their disaster management center. The command center quickly implemented a number of projects, including border control from the air and sea, using new data and technology for case identification, isolating suspicious cases, educating the public while dealing with false information, and negotiating with other countries-formulating schools and enterprises Follow the policy. Futhermore they integrated its National Health Insurance database with the immigration and customs databases for analysis. In this way, they can generate real-time alerts during clinical visits based on travel history and clinical symptoms to identify cases.Taipei City also uses a quick response code to scan and report the travel history and health symptoms to categorize travellers’ infection risk based on flight origination and travel history in the past 14 days. Those who have been to high-risk areas are quarantined at home and tracked through mobile

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  2. D0711965June 25, 2020 at 2:06 AM

    I think this is a great article related to the latest news.

    This year, it happened a very serious thing, which is a coronavirus. It has been forecast that Taiwan might influence the most, because we are very close to China. But so far, you can say, Taiwan is quite successful in preventing the coronavirus. So how does Taiwan prevent it successfully?

    After the SARS in 2003, Taiwan uses the new technology and a robust pandemic prevention plan put into place at the 2003 SARS outbreak. By doing the border control from air and sea, using new data and technology for case identification, quarantining suspicious cases, educating the public while fighting false information, negotiating with other countries-and formulating policies that schools and businesses should follow.

    In the big data aspect, Taiwan has integrated its National Health Insurance database with the immigration and customs database and started to create big data for analysis. Therefore, they can generate real-time alerts during clinical visits based on travel history and clinical symptoms to identify cases.

    Moreover, in Taipei, uses QR code scan and online reports of travel history and health symptoms to classify travelers’ risk of infection based on flight origination and travel history over the past 14 days. So those who had traveled to high-risk areas were quarantined at home and tracked through their mobile phones to guarantee that they stayed home during the incubation time.

    We can say that being one of Taiwan residents is quite a lucky thing. The government is doing its best to control the coronavirus. And the resident is also following what the government tells us to do. Therefore, Taiwan is still very successful in preventing the coronavirus, people in Taiwan are very lucky that we don’t have lots of cases.

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