Monday, 02 November 2026

Robotics and AI in Healthcare

From Idea to Export: How Wonju Built Korea's Medical Device Launchpad

In Gangwon State, the Wonju Medical Industry Institute of Technology (WMIT) has spent more than two decades building something many regions talk about and few deliver: a single, connected system that takes a medical device company from its first idea to its first export contract...

AI-PAM: The First Step Towards the Smart Hospital

In Gangwon, a CCTV software company and a national university hospital have taught a ceiling camera to recognise when a patient is about to fall. GeoMex Soft's AI-PAM is a small system aimed at the most common accident in Korean hospitals, and it shows where the smart hospital really begins....

Genie Health closes US$3 million seed round to grow health intelligence platform

The Singapore AI health tech company will use the funding to scale its consumer health app, Genie, and expand Genie SmartCare, its health intelligence platform for clinics...

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 follows us through life. Our data should too

Greg Taylor, Senior Vice President and General Manager APAC at Confluent, argues that connected, real-time patient data will be critical as healthcare increasingly moves beyond hospitals into homes and communities....

AcuityMD brings prescription data into AcuityAI to help MedTech reps identify new patient opportunities

The AI platform combines prescription and procedure data in a single workflow, helping commercial teams prioritise HCPs treating patients who may be candidates for medical devices....

AI can help imaging services do more with existing workforce and infrastructure: Ari Wood

Ari Wood, Acting Head of Imaging, Australia and New Zealand and Head of CT/AMI, Growth Region at Philips, discusses how AI-enabled MRI and CT technologies can address rising imaging demand, workforce constraints and regional access gaps across Australia and New Zealand....

Taiwan shifts from MedTech hardware supplier to ASEAN co-innovation partner: Megan Liu

Megan Liu, Director of TAITRA Singapore, discusses how Taiwan’s ICT and engineering strengths are translating into practical MedTech solutions, the barriers to ASEAN market entry and the move towards decentralised, AI-enabled and sustainable healthcare....

Healthcare AI must solve workflow problems before it can scale: Tan Wei Chun, Bot MD

Tan Wei Chun, Regional Sales Manager at Bot MD, discusses why successful healthcare AI deployment in Southeast Asia depends on solving practical problems, integrating with existing workflows and demonstrating value beyond the technology itself....

Singapore deploys first AI-powered head CT model on AimSG for brain bleed detection

iScreen analyses head CT scans for intracranial haemorrhage and alerts radiologists to urgent cases, cutting AI result turnaround to about six minutes at Singapore General Hospital....