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Malaysia has announced AI Malaysia Berhad, formalising and expanding the National AI Office, and Malaysia AI Safety Institute, intended to strengthen technical capacity.
Oversight would be decentralised, with sector regulators - in health, for example - responsible for AI within their own industries, coordinated by a national AI steering committee.
Indonesia is beginning to ask the right questions about AI governance in healthcare. HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan asks whether its approach could offer a model for the rest of ASEAN.
HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan asks whether governance keep pace as Global South digital health infrastructures deepen and dependence outpaces accountability.
AI is shifting how health judgement is exercised, not just expanding access. Vishnu Narayan asks whether people can actually interpret and act on what it tells them.
Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria pointed to an "ethics by design" framework as the government's preferred model, one that integrates ethical safeguards at the design stage…
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Tri Thức told the meeting that the ministry is developing technical standards for AI applications in healthcare.
HealthTechAsia’s Vishnu Narayan writes that digital health’s future depends less on tech itself, and more on the systems and capabilities built around it, bringing both challenge and opportunity.
Singapore’s regulatory journey has evolved from SaMD frameworks and the Healthcare Services Act, through national AI strategy and generative/agentic governance, to a more complex frontier ahead.