South Korea opens public consultation on national AI ethics principles
The consultation is framed as a response to both rapid technological change and the recent enactment of Korea's Basic Act on Artificial Intelligence.
Health AI
When healthcare becomes infrastructure: AI, digital identity, and the quiet risk of exclusion
HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan asks whether governance keep pace as Global South digital health infrastructures deepen and dependence outpaces accountability.
SingHealth and Bhutan’s GCIT collaborate on responsible AI deployment in healthcare
At the centre of the collaboration is the co-development of an AI-assisted chest radiograph model trained on Bhutanese patient data.
Google DeepMind expands Singapore partnership with focus on health AI
The partnership spans several public sector organisations and focuses on applying frontier AI to areas including pandemic preparedness, clinical care, and disability inclusion.
When the algorithm doesn’t know the road is 100 kilometres long
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.
Kazakhstan and South Korea explore digital health partnership
Discussions centred on innovations in healthcare digitalisation, with St. Mary's International Hospital cited as a working model.
UN consultation calls for enforceable AI governance as Global Dialogue approaches
HealthTechAsia Contributing Policy Editor Vishnu Narayan joined the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies' third virtual stakeholder consultation on 12 May.
Motorola and the quiet AI shift
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.
Heidi launches first dedicated clinical hardware device to address AI audio gap
Heidi Remote is a 21-gram device that clips onto a clinician's uniform and captures consultation audio independently of a phone, laptop, or Wi-Fi connection.