Asia Pacific

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....

Asia must shift from treating illness to preventing disease: Kelvin Loh, AIA

Kelvin Loh, Group Chief Healthcare Officer at AIA, discusses how insurers, digital health, AI and behavioural science can help Asia's ageing populations live healthier lives while improving healthcare access and affordability....

Aevice Health gains FDA clearance for AI-powered wheeze detection software

The Class II decision-support software analyses lung sound recordings from compatible FDA-cleared electronic stethoscopes and flags recordings suggestive of wheeze for clinical review....

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....

Kawasaki and Gemelli University Hospital Explore Medical Robotics Collaboration

The planned collaboration with Gemelli University Hospital represents the first partnership between KIC-EU and a European healthcare institution...