MobiHealth News January 12, 2026
Private rheumatologist Dr Anandita Santosa in Singapore notes how current AI in healthcare priorities practically leave autoimmune and rheumatic diseases behind and shares what can be done to build a more comprehensive AI-driven preventive care ecosystem.
Despite the rapid expansion of AI-driven preventive care in Asia, autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, which affect around a tenth of the region’s population, remain largely excluded from national AI strategies, creating what clinicians warn is a growing source of preventable, irreversible harm.
In Singapore, where there is world-class specialist capability, primary care time constraints and delayed referrals mean autoimmune conditions are often diagnosed years late, a problem that becomes more severe across Southeast Asia, where some regions have fewer than one rheumatologist per million...
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