Asia

At the helm of Taiwan's national smart health project, the National Science and Technology Council facilitates partnerships between university hospitals and the ICT industry. Andrea Hsu, director general at the agency, discusses.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has recently developed four large language models, including models for cancer detection and an AI chatbot for physicians.

It will likely adopt the standards of Chinese insurer Ping An for its online family doctor contract service.

Following its multiple HIMSS digital health maturity validations, China Medical University Hospital is stopping at nothing to fully realise AI's full potential, says Superintendent Dr Der-Yang Cho.

It is now the second APAC hospital presently validated at this stage.

Subsyndromal depression is said to be five times more common than clinical depression among Singaporean seniors.

Also, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services has partnered with Samsung Medison for medical imaging and AI.

Asan Medical Center continues to digitalise beyond the hospital confines by developing cloud APIs that connect with smaller hospitals, IT strategy team lead Wongu Yi explains.

Going back to the basics by focusing on programme design is crucial, says Dr Mahesh Appannan, director of Digital Health at the Ministry of Health Malaysia.  

HIMSS has shifted the focus from adoption to utilisation in the updated version of the Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity, says Chief Relationship Officer Mitch Icenhower.