Showa University

Japan is leveraging sovereign AI to enhance healthcare, addressing a projected shortage of 500,000 healthcare workers by 2024. AI tools, trained on country-specific data and local infrastructure, are deployed in drug discovery, genomic medicine, healthcare imaging, and robotics. Key technologies include NVIDIA BioNeMo for drug discovery, NVIDIA MONAI for medical imaging, NVIDIA Parabricks for genomics, and NVIDIA Holoscan for healthcare robotics. These innovations are showcased at the NVIDIA AI Summit Japan, highlighting real-time AI applications in surgery and radiology, and digital health systems for patient care.