Health systems across the Asia-Pacific region have seen varying levels of digital transformation over the past year.
It is becoming more and more obvious that digitalization – from nationwide networks to individual hospitals – has become the rule in the post-pandemic world. Artificial intelligence and virtual care models continue to gain popularity in healthcare due to their clear support in improving physician productivity and patient outcomes.
How can digital health transformation unfold in the up-to-date year? sought forecasts and expectations of healthcare providers and technology providers in the APAC region for health IT in 2025.
Dr. Tawan Chitchulanon, Medical Director, PRINCIPAL Healthcare Company, Thailand
Following the global trend and support from the Thai government, the trend the operate of artificial intelligence in healthcare, telemedicine and digital personal data will [increase] in Thailand. To ensure continuity of care, faster, and fewer errors, personal data will be better connected and transferred between hospitals, patients, third-party payers, and more. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand [started installing] telemedicine kiosks for [provide more] health insurance.
Major Healthcare Group has developed an HIS that can be connected to most AI software. For example, we consider using such as predicting retinal diseases, as well as and .
Janine Cox, Chief Operating Officer – Health Systems Integration and Innovation, North Queensland Primary Care Network (NQPHN), Australia
We hope to see improved utilization in care homes for the elderly. We currently have 39 Visionflex carts across the region equipped with USB devices to provide more effective virtual care options.
We also see more general exploitative practices Inca has provided a health documentation and care planning tool that connects patients and their care team, as well as GoShare technology to enable digital literacy, patient skills and participation in continuous quality improvement initiatives.
We expect to see greater operate of our Primary Sense tool to notify patients about medications, patients at risk of hospitalization, and patients who are missing care interventions, such as an upcoming vaccination appointment or health check-up.
We will probably also see an raise in dynamics and interactivity for general practices subscribed to the NQPHN data program. This program helps practitioners work with patient groups to offer health assessment recalls. In practice, Primary Sense is already being used as a data extraction tool for reports.
To achieve progress, the NQPHN is working with other PHNs in Queensland and Queensland Health between levels of health care. The goal is to track the patient throughout their care journey to spot opportunities for improvement and identify any barriers or gaps that may emerge from data collected in healthcare settings.
We look forward to the latest updates to the MyHealth app for consumers based on recent changes in health regulations (default sharing). Easier access to electronic prescriptions will raise operate of the app, providing a much-needed boost to the popularity of My Health Record among consumers and providers. A up-to-date consumer campaign from the Department of Health and Aged Care will encourage consumers and suppliers to take greater interest in it.
(HIE) seem to emerge where integration between systems is not possible. We look forward to monitoring progress at the national level and determining where primary care fits into this information-sharing model.
Ling Su Yuen, Chief Architect, Synapxe, Singapore
Artificial intelligence and multilingual language models (LLM) have dominated the conversation around technological innovation, particularly in healthcare, and will remain crucial trends in 2025. However, I am particularly excited about the untapped potential of these technologies (IoT) in transforming healthcare.
IoT has certainly been around for some time, but it is an evolving field and its potential in healthcare is enormous in areas such as real-time monitoring, asset tracking, and supply chain optimization. Healthcare makes extensive operate of medical devices; they need to be tracked and managed effectively. Imagine the lifesaving potential of integrating healthcare systems with predictive analytics to enhance pandemic preparedness by tracking early indicators across healthcare facilities, logistics networks, and community health activity.
Looking ahead, another area we intend to focus more on is enabling technology-savvy users, such as public health clinicians, to develop that improve their own productivity. We can do this by establishing a more formal approach with guardrails that enable them to contribute to digital transformation while ensuring organizational compliance and cybersecurity. This gives clinicians more room to innovate and solve operational problems head-on.
The next expected development is progress towards . Simplifying the transition of legacy systems to cloud environments will be a key goal, providing greater flexibility, scalability and availability in healthcare operations.
In addition, we also explored an emerging field especially its implications for cryptography. Quantum resilience is a critical capability for the future, and we would need to prepare for the obsolescence of some cryptographic methods to ensure we stay ahead of technological evolution.
Dr Katharine See, Director of Health Outcomes and Director of Respiratory Medicine, Northern Health, Australia
In 2025, the operate of artificial intelligence in healthcare will continue to grow, enabling personalized treatment by analyzing enormous amounts of patient data, including genomic information, to develop tailored care plans. Initially focused on automation and process improvement, these tools will raise treatment efficiency and patient outcomes while reducing physician workload. The long-term vision is to integrate artificial intelligence to support decision-making, providing clinicians with actionable information to deliver precision medicine at scale
As we enter 2025, Northern Health is focused on using artificial intelligence to raise the effectiveness and efficiency of care by customizing and personalizing treatments and reducing the administrative burden on our physicians, enabling them to focus more on patient care. Key initiatives include implementation – starting with a pilot project for point-of-care cardiac ultrasound, through implementation to streamline documentation and integrate the transformation of intricate patient data into actionable insights. We believe that adopting these AI tools will assist us deliver the health outcomes that matter most to our patients and communities.
Dr. Yuichi Tamura, CEO of CardioIntelligence, Japan
In 2025, I expect further evolution to support Japan’s aging population and improve chronic disease management as a co-pilot for healthcare providers.
Lawyer Rustom, Augnito, India
I think some of the up-to-date trends you can expect include:
: In addition to conventional speech recognition, there will be ambient artificial intelligence technologies that will automatically document clinical encounters. Doctors can focus on the patient while artificial intelligence captures and organizes data in the background, minimizing administrative burden and errors.
: As India ceases to be self-financed spending towards a more insurance-financed model (based on the proposed raise in the healthcare budget allocation from 1% to 2.5% of GDP by 2025), digital platforms will begin the process of unifying medical records, insurance claims and reimbursements in a single ecosystem .
: : Artificial intelligence and advanced analytics will enable highly targeted interventions – from proactive screening for early disease detection to personalized treatment plans based on a patient’s genomic and clinical data.
: We will see more public-private partnerships (e.g. government initiatives combined with start-up innovation). In India, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission shows how collaborative efforts can shape standards in AI research and validation, driving healthcare efficiency and innovation at scale.
Ben Hope, Chief Operating Officer, Personify Care, Australia
As community demand for healthcare in Australia and Recent Zealand continues to raise, frontline clinical staff shortages are driving an ongoing focus on digitizing clinical workflows, reducing the burden on frontline staff, increasing the efficiency of the healthcare system and increasing patient access to care.
We are seeing more and more adoption digital medical record systems and digital patient path technologies. These tools enable healthcare systems to obtain high-quality, clinically relevant information directly from patients throughout their care journey, well beyond the hospital stay.
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