AI in health care: Capacity, capability, and a future of active health in Asia

Asia's highest health burdens are fertile ground for public-private sector collaboration. In several Asian countries there are examples of different stakeholders collaborating to tackle a pernicious medical challenge while leveraging local skills and talent, or data resources. Aging is rapidly becoming one of Asia's leading health-care crises; Japan is currently in the lead for its share of the population aged over 65 (nearly a third), but several of the region's other economies are close behind and carefully watching the emerging innovations in elder care. Other health-care burdens where AI is playing a leading role are infant mortality in India and hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension in Singapore. Over the coming decades, policymakers and AI developers will increasingly collaborate to improve public health.