NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026: Mackay Memorial Hospital Doctors Discuss 'Can We Trust AI Answers?'

(Central News Agency, Reporter Shen Pei-Yao, Taipei, June 4) The NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 conference kicked off, with Dr. Huang Chong-Yao and Dr. Lee Kuang-Shen from Mackay Memorial Hospital giving invited speeches today. They shared techniques and developments for integrating AI into the healthcare industry, highlighting that the medical field's primary concern is 'whether AI answers can be trusted.'

Mackay Memorial Hospital announced in a press release today that it was invited to share its in-house developed 'EBM Guardian (Evidence-Based Medicine Guardian)' system. The presentation emphasized how generative AI can assist doctors in quickly searching medical literature and organizing evidence-based data, shortening clinical information search time, and building a trustworthy clinical AI-assisted workflow grounded in evidence-based medicine.

Dr. Huang Chong-Yao, Director of the Department of Applied Medicine, Division of Digital Medicine at Mackay Memorial Hospital, has obtained NVIDIA's 'NCP-GENL Certified' credential. In his speech, he pointed out that while generative AI possesses powerful language generation capabilities and communicates fluently, it can also produce seemingly reasonable and confidently stated arguments that are completely wrong, fabricated, or baseless.

Dr. Huang stated that no matter how fluent an AI's answer is, medical decisions cannot rely solely on 'AI thinks so.' Without evidence data and verification mechanisms, erroneous information or 'hallucinations' inconsistent with clinical facts may occur. EBM Guardian is not just about having AI 'generate answers'; it establishes a clinical support process that is based on medical evidence, has traceable sources, and can be verified.

Dr. Lee Kuang-Shen, Professor and Senior Consultant Physician in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Technology at Mackay Memorial Hospital, shared the hospital's development direction in AI biomedical research and precision medicine. This includes applications of generative AI in biomedical research, cell research, and biomedical computing.

Dr. Lee said that Mackay continues to collaborate with industry and research teams, connecting cross-team integration to solve clinical pain points. By combining needs with research, the goal is to ensure that outcomes can be practically applied in clinical settings. Through AI, it is not just a document processing tool but can gradually become an important auxiliary role in clinical medicine.

Dr. Chang Wen-Han, Superintendent of Mackay Memorial Hospital, stated that in clinical settings, doctors must make judgments in a very short time based on the patient's clinical condition. This relies not only on the doctor's diagnostic experience but also requires integrating a complete evidence-based medicine process, from literature search and data screening to analysis and organization, which takes a significant amount of time. The development of EBM Guardian aims to use AI to help doctors grasp medical evidence more quickly, reducing repetitive search and review time, allowing the medical team to focus more on patient care itself. (Editor: Wu Su-Rou) 1150604