Asia Pacific

Digital health must deliver better outcomes and sustainable value: AIA Singapore’s Irma Hadikusuma

Irma Hadikusuma discusses how insurers can support preventive and connected care through clinical evidence, trusted data use and coordinated healthcare partnerships....

A Medical Device Can Work Perfectly And Still Fail To Improve Patient Care

Connected healthcare technologies must demonstrate clinical value through effective integration, reliable data, staff training and support beyond the product itself....

Singlife launches weight management programme with Novo Singapore and HMI Medical

The insurer-led programme offers eligible Singlife customers medically guided weight management through HMI OneCare clinics and telemedicine, with a programme fee of S$289 per month for suitable treatment and dosage....

World Sleep Society team proposes common standards for wearable sleep data

New Fundamental Sleep Measures (FSM) Specification establishes a common language for sleep tracking, paving the way for more meaningful clinical care, research, and public health....

PurMinds, SpectroChip and Siaogang Hospital Sign Clinical Research Collaboration

Five-year collaboration framework aims to advance point-of-care diagnostics, clinical performance evaluation, and precision-medicine applications...

AI drug discovery must deliver repeatable value beyond hype: Insilico Medicine’s Feng Ren

Feng Ren discusses AI’s impact on target discovery, R&D productivity and clinical development, and Asia’s role in translating computational predictions into new medicines....

Singlife and NHG Health partner to expand specialist care and advance value-based care

The collaboration focuses on digestive health, recovery and exploring bundled and fixed-rate care models to improve patient outcomes and healthcare sustainability....

Clinical judgement remains central to robotic surgery: Dr Catherine Teh

Dr Catherine Teh discusses how robotics, fluorescence imaging and clinician-led innovation can support complex liver surgery, and what wider adoption across Asia will require....

Healthcare technology must be designed for scale, not just successful pilots

Dr Kamonlawan Chomchopbun of KPMG in Singapore, Dr May-Anne Cheong of SingHealth’s A.L.I.C.E. and Lars Wismer of Messe Düsseldorf Asia discuss why promising healthcare technologies struggle to move into routine care, what hospitals should measure before scaling, and how Southeast Asia can turn innovation into everyday implementation....

Terumo launches K-Pack Embrace active safety needle globally

The needle combines hard-shell packaging for automated co-packing with an integrated hinged safety shield designed to reduce needlestick injuries....