Adam Ang

Vinod Narayanan, Country President, AstraZeneca Malaysia and Dr Puteri Norliza binti Megat Ramli, Deputy Director, Institut Kanser Negara, at the collaboration announcement
AstraZeneca expands AI lung screening to public hospitals in Malaysia
By Adam Ang | 11:20 pm | September 26, 2023
It has partnered with Institut Kanser Negara to promote the adoption of AI-based lung screening in public health.
A person holding a smartphone looking out the window
South Korea enables access to 113 personal health data via My HealthWay
By Adam Ang | 04:49 am | September 26, 2023
It connects individual medical data held by around 800 health institutions.
A nurse looking at a laptop dashboard of patient information
New NUHS AI can spot high blood calcium levels
By Adam Ang | 04:45 am | September 26, 2023
It flags cases in real time, prompting faster patient interventions.
Professor Ho-Young Lee, Director of Research and Development, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
HIMSS23 APAC
Bridging IT and medical knowledge to advance healthcare AI
By Adam Ang | 04:22 am | September 26, 2023
Cooperation is key to the successful implementation of new technologies such as AI for improving care, said Prof Ho Young Lee of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.
Diana Altynbaeva, Head of Marketing, Regional Clinical Hospital, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
HIMSS23 APAC
Breaking through staff resistance with change management
By Adam Ang | 11:16 pm | September 25, 2023
This session delved into birthing pains the Regional Clinical Hospital in Tatarstan went through to achieve HIMSS Stage 6 EMRAM.
Dhesi Raja, Vice Chairman, HIMSS APAC; Professor Oscar Lee Vice Superintendent China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan; Dr Deok-Hyun Han Vice CMIO, Samsung Medical Center; A/Prof Low Cheng Ooi, Chief Technology Officer, Sheares Healthcare International Holdings; and Dr Mohammad Adib Khumaidi, President, Indonesian Medical Association
HIMSS23 APAC
APAC to double down on home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care
By Adam Ang | 06:07 am | September 25, 2023
Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region.
Andrew Pearce, VP Analytics and Global Advisory Lead, HIMSS; Veneeth Purushotaman, CIO, Aster DM Healthcare; Dr Tamara Sunbul, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare; and Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Karkinos Healthcare
HIMSS23 APAC
How to effectively wield emerging tech
By Adam Ang | 12:13 am | September 25, 2023
Health CIOs shared outcomes, considerations, and success factors in implementing new technologies to advance care.
Professor In-Young Choi, Head of the Catholic Information Convergence Institute, Catholic Medical Center
HIMSS23 APAC
How Catholic Medical Center achieved personalised care with big data, AI
By Adam Ang | 12:09 am | September 25, 2023
This HIMSS23 APAC session put a spotlight on the hospital's recent digital transformation journey.
Dr Roel Bolt, CMIO, Franciscus Hospital
HIMSS23 APAC
Most hospitals are not yet ready for LLM-based patient portals
By Adam Ang | 12:05 am | September 25, 2023
If they want to apply these models, it has to be hosted locally to preserve data integrity, said Dr Roel Bolt, CMIO of Franciscus Hospital.
Gareth Sherlock, Former CIO, Cleveland Clinic London
HIMSS23 APAC
Building a digital hospital from scratch
By Adam Ang | 11:55 pm | September 24, 2023
Gareth Sherlock, former CIO of Cleveland Clinic London, shared their lessons from setting up a fully digital hospital in a new city.