Reflections after speaking at AAHCI Southeast Asia on personalised healthcare, rehabilitation robotics and the emerging relationship between patients, professionals and intelligent machines.
The patient often leaves the hospital long before recovery is finished. A stroke may happen in minutes. The acute admission may last days. Recovery can continue for months or years, across rehabilitation centres, outpatient clinics, community services and eventually the home. Yet much of healthcare remains organised around the encounter: admission, intervention, discharge. That tension stayed with me after participating in Forum 1: Personalised Healthcare at the AAHCI Southeast Asia Talent Education Symposium 2026 at Universiti Malaya on 15 August. The forum, moderated by Assoc Prof Dr Azura Mansor, deliberately moved through three questions: where future healthcare will happen; how data might make care more personalised; and how humans and increasingly intelligent technologies should work together…
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