What can you expect in healthcare IT in Asia Pacific in 2025?
The past year has seen varying levels of digital transformations across healthcare systems in the Asia-Pacific region.
It is becoming increasingly clear that digitalization – from national networks to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world. AI and virtual care models continued to be the rage in healthcare, thanks to their clear support for improving physician productivity and patient outcomes.
How might digital healthcare transformations progress in the new year? Healthcare IT news looked for predictions and expectations from healthcare providers and technology vendors in APAC for healthcare IT in 2025.
What health technology trend do you see continuing in your country in 2025? What about the new trends you can expect in the new year?
Dr. Tawan Chitchulanon, Director, Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi, Thailand
Following the global trend and the support of the Thai government, the trend of the use of AI in healthcare, telemedicine and digital personal data will (increase) in Thailand. To ensure continuity of care with higher speed and fewer errors, personal data will become more connected and transferred between hospitals, patients, third-party payers and more. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand have (started installing) telemedicine kiosks to provide (more) healthcare coverage.
The Princ Healthcare Group has developed a HIS that can be linked to most AI software. For example, we are considering its use AI to support ophthalmology physicianssuch as the prediction of retinal diseases, as well as neurology And radiology.
Janine Cox, Director of Operations – Healthcare Systems Integration and Innovation, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Australia
We hope to see an improvement in the use of video telecare within residential elderly care centers. We now have 39 Visionflex carts across our region with USB devices to support more effective virtual care options.
We also see that more and more general practices are using the Inca shared a medical records and care planning tool that connects patients and their care team, as well as GoShare technology for digital literacy, patient literacy and participation in continuous quality improvement initiatives.
It is anticipated that greater use of our Primary Sense tool will be for patient medication alerts, patients at risk of hospital admission and patients lacking healthcare interventions, such as when vaccinations are required or for healthcare assessments.
We will probably also see an increase in dynamic and interactive public health dashboards for general practices that are affiliated with the NQPHN data program. This program helps practices work with patient groups to offer health assessment recalls. Practices already use Primary Sense as an extraction tool to export data to reports.
NQPHN is working with other Queensland PHNs and Queensland Health to make progress data link between levels of healthcare. The goal is to follow a patient throughout their care journey to note opportunities for improvement and identify any barriers or gaps that may arise from the data collected within the healthcare system.
We expect the recent updates to the MyHealth consumer app based on the recent changes in health legislation (standard parts). Easier access to electronic prescriptions will increase usage of the app, providing a much-needed boost to My Health Record’s popularity among consumers and providers. A new consumer campaign, led by the Ministry of Health and Aged Care, will encourage greater uptake by consumers and providers.
Exchange of health information (HIE) seem to be emerging where integration between systems is not available. We look forward to monitoring progress nationally and identifying where primary care fits within this information sharing model.
Ling Su Yuen, Chief Architect, Synapxe, Singapore
AI and large language models (LLM) have dominated the conversation around technology innovation, especially in healthcare, and will continue to be major trends in 2025. However, I’m especially excited about the untapped potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare reform.
Sure, IoT has been around for a while, but it’s an evolving field and its potential in healthcare is enormous in areas like real-time monitoring, asset tracking, and supply chain optimization. Healthcare makes extensive use of medical devices; these must be monitored and managed effectively. Imagine the life-saving potential of integrating healthcare systems with predictive analytics to improve pandemic preparedness by tracking early indicators in medical facilities, logistics networks and community health activities.
Looking ahead, another area we expect to focus more on is enabling tech-savvy users, such as public health clinicians, to custom applications who improve their own productivity. We can do this by establishing a more formal approach with ‘guardrails’ that will enable them to contribute to the digital transformation while ensuring organizational compliance and cybersecurity. This gives doctors more room to innovate and tackle operational challenges head-on.
Another expected development is progress towards hassle-free cloud migration. Simplifying the transition from legacy systems to cloud environments will be a critical focus, enabling greater flexibility, scalability and accessibility in healthcare.
We also explored the emerging field quantum computersparticularly its implications for cryptography. Quantum resilience is a future-critical capability, and we should prepare for the obsolescence of certain cryptographic methods to ensure we stay ahead of technological evolution.
Dr. Katharine See, Chief Health Outcomes Officer and Director of Respiratory Medicine, Northern Health, Australia
By 2025, AI adoption in healthcare will continue to grow, enabling personalized treatments by analyzing large amounts of patient data, including genomic information, to develop customized care plans. Initially focused on automation and process improvements, these tools will improve treatment effectiveness and patient outcomes while reducing physician workload. The long-term vision is to integrate decision support AI, providing physicians with actionable insights to deliver precision medicine at scale
As we enter 2025, our focus at Northern Health is on using AI to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of care by tailoring and personalizing treatments and reducing the administrative burden on our physicians, allowing them to more concentrate on patient care. Key initiatives include implementation AI for imaging and pathological interpretation – starting with the implementation of a pilot in the field of cardiac point-of-care ultrasound AI writers to streamline and integrate documentation AI-powered physician assistants for real-time summaries of patient data turn complex patient data into actionable insights. We believe that adopting these AI tools will help us achieve the health outcomes that matter most to our patients and communities.
Dr. Yuichi Tamura, CEO, CardioIntelligence, Japan
I expect further evolution in 2025 AI-enabled diagnostics and remote health monitoring solutions aimed at supporting Japan’s aging population and improving chronic disease management as a co-pilot for healthcare providers.
Rustom Lawyer, Augnito, India
I think some of the new trends you can expect are:
Voice-based and ambient AI: In addition to conventional speech recognition, AI environment technologies will emerge to automatically document clinical encounters. Doctors can focus on the patient while the AI captures and organizes data in the background, minimizing administrative burdens and errors.
Insurance-financed models and integrated platforms: As India shifts from out-of-pocket By moving towards a more insurance-financed model (supported by a proposed increase in 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 seamless ecosystem.
Personalized, preventive care: AI and advanced analytics will enable highly targeted interventions – ranging from proactive screenings for early disease detection to personalized treatment plans based on a patient’s genomic and clinical data.
Collaborative AI ecosystems: We will see more public-private partnerships (e.g. government initiatives combined with startup innovation). In India, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission represents how collective efforts can drive standards for AI research and validation, driving healthcare efficiencies and innovations at scale.
Ben Hope, Head of Operations, Personify Care, Australia
As community demand for healthcare continues to grow in Australia and New Zealand, the shortage of frontline clinical staff is driving a continued focus on digitizing clinical workflows, reducing burden on frontline staff, expanding capacity of the healthcare system and improving patient access to care.
We see the increasing acceptance of digital health record systems and digital patient journey technologies. These tools allow healthcare systems to capture high-quality, clinically relevant information directly from patients throughout their care journey, far beyond their hospital stay.
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Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.