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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.
At the centre of the collaboration is the co-development of an AI-assisted chest radiograph model trained on Bhutanese patient data.
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.