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As AI embeds into digital health infrastructure, exclusion risks scale quietly - governance must catch up before algorithmic systems outpace accountability. HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan explains.
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.
HealthTechAsia Contributing Policy Editor Vishnu Narayan joined the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies' third virtual stakeholder consultation on 12 May.
Osscentric is designed to bring together clinicians, engineers, and researchers within a clinical environment to co-develop medical technologies and devices.
Consumer devices are no longer just capturing health data, writes Vishnu Narayan, they're beginning to act on it. The governance question is catching up slowly.
Vishnu Narayan
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Vinmec Healthcare System