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Ping An Good Doctor cut consultation costs 45% with AI. CEO He Mingke speaks in an exclusive Q&A on managed care and China's digital health ambition.
AI could expand access to healthcare and reshape how societies are organised. But who governs the algorithm? Vishnu Narayan on the intelligent city.
The deployments are taking place under the government's Healthy Taiwan initiative, which has committed $1.5 billion to building a nationally governed, AI-native health system.
From ward rounds in the NHS to a startup in KL: how Dr. Ezam Mat Ali is building AI to fix what he spent 16 years watching go wrong.
The two new solutions, HEMI Health, an AI medical scribe with medicolegal protection tools, and AskHEMI, a multilingual patient-facing health companion, join HEMI Teams.
Pilots targeting island and mountain communities are set to launch in the second half of 2025.
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.