‘Health coin’ to come in October: Lai

INCENTIVE: People would be rewarded for getting health checkups, screenings and vaccinations in the initial phase, with coins accumulating on the NHI app, an official said By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source A “health coin” policy to be implemented in October aims to use technology to promote public health and cancer screening, serving as a new model to incentivize digital health management, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday.Government health policies should place greater emphasis on health promotion and preventive medicine as Taiwan has become a hyper-aged society, Lai told a meeting of the Healthy Taiwan Promotion Committee.The “health coin” program would reward people for taking health-promoting actions, encouraging them to undergo checkups and can