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Kuwait, Oman and India used the 79th World Health Assembly to advance calls for stronger AI governance, digital health infrastructure and international cooperation in healthcare.
The consultation is framed as a response to both rapid technological change and the recent enactment of Korea's Basic Act on Artificial Intelligence.
HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan asks whether governance keep pace as Global South digital health infrastructures deepen and dependence outpaces accountability.
At the centre of the collaboration is the co-development of an AI-assisted chest radiograph model trained on Bhutanese patient data.
A cooperation agreement between FPT Corporation and Tokushukai Medical Group covering the period 2026 to 2029 was welcomed at the meeting.
A central development from the meeting was Malaysia's endorsement of the Medical Device Regulatory Reliance Programme, a framework designed to streamline market access for medical technologies across the region.
The partnership spans several public sector organisations and focuses on applying frontier AI to areas including pandemic preparedness, clinical care, and disability inclusion.
AI governance frameworks are written in Brussels and Singapore. The patients they affect often live somewhere else entirely. Three policy practitioners on the gap that matters most.
Discussions centred on innovations in healthcare digitalisation, with St. Mary's International Hospital cited as a working model.
Vishnu Narayan
Matthew Brady
Vinmec Healthcare System