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UAE As Abu Dhabi translates strategy into execution, the focus turns from platform design to operational delivery. Albarah Elkhani, COO of Integrated Health Solutions at M42, details how large-scale genomics, clinical pathways and regulatory alignment are embedded into day-to-day healthcare practice. From premarital and newborn screening to rare disease management and…

UAE Healthcare systems across the world continue to struggle with fragmentation, rising costs and reactive models of care that intervene too late. Dimitris Moulavasilis, Group CEO of M42, outlines how an integrated platform spanning care delivery, genomics, digital infrastructure and policy seeks to realign incentives, embed intelligence at scale and reposition…

Taiwan Professor Yun-Ching Fu serves as Superintendent of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan’s largest national medical centre in the central region. A paediatric interventional cardiologist by training, Professor Fu established Taiwan records for minimally invasive cardiac defect repair and now leads a 1,632-bed institution serving 10,000 outpatients daily. Under his leadership,…

Taiwan Professor Chi-Huey Wong serves as President of the Institute for Biotechnology and Medicine Industry (IBMI) in Taiwan, bringing decades of distinguished experience from top-tier US research institutions including MIT, Scripps Research and his tenure as President of Academia Sinica. With a unique vantage point spanning both American and Taiwanese scientific…

Global ISPOR’s Rob Abbott traces AI’s evolution in healthcare from early expert systems to today’s machine learning and large language models, arguing that AI is now central to health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) and healthcare decision-making. Abbott highlights concrete use cases in genomics, evidence synthesis, and medical imaging, while stressing…

France Frederic Collet, Chairman of FIAC (La Filière Intelligence Artificielle et Cancers), leads a pioneering public-private consortium bringing together nine of the world’s most innovative oncology companies with France’s public health institutions. Drawing on extensive oncology expertise and a deep commitment to national competitiveness, he champions a unique model in which…

Global First published in the November 2025 issue of DIA’s Global Forum, this article by Victoria Gamermanusa (RWD Insights) tackles one of rare disease research’s toughest dilemmas: how to run credible efficacy trials when patient numbers make traditional statistics unworkable. She charts how AI, Bayesian methods, transfer learning, and synthetic data…

Global As chief development officer of Moderna, Dr Melanie Ivarsson OBE spearheaded the rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine that helped the world emerge from the pandemic. Now back in the UK and drawing on over 25 years of clinical development leadership across Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda, and Moderna, Dr Ivarsson recently…

Argentina Keila Barral, founder of Cromodata, brings together a personal journey of resilience and a career in technology to address one of Latin America’s biggest healthcare challenges: fragmented patient data. After a seven-year diagnostic odyssey that left her living with lasting health consequences, Barral recognised that the core issue wasn’t only…

Global Drawing on insights from DIA’s 2024 Global Annual Meeting, Martin Hodosi and Rosanna Lim of Kearney Healthcare and Life Sciences examine some of the key ethical challenges around integrating AI into healthcare.   Artificial intelligence (AI) has already begun transforming the healthcare industry, with applications ranging from diagnostics to drug…

Europe James Riddle of Advarra, writing in the January 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, looks at how the EU’s AI Regulation will impact clinical trials in Europe.   In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare and clinical research, regulatory bodies are racing to keep pace. The…

Switzerland Switzerland’s healthcare system is globally renowned. It leads the world on metrics such as infrastructure, medical advances, and patient freedom to choose healthcare services, and ranks 1st in US thinktank FREOPP’s 2022 World Index of Healthcare Innovation. However, it lags in one key area: digitalisation. On that front, Switzerland has…