IHH Healthcare's FutureHealth.Now 2026: Redefining the Care Stack Through AI, Precision Medicine, and Value-Based Care
核心洞察
IHH Healthcare (搜索) convened over 300 leaders from government, healthcare, technology, and finance at the second FutureHealth.Now conference in Singapore under the theme "Redefining the Care Stack."
Ashok Pandit, Group Chief Corporate Officer of IHH Healthcare (搜索), emphasized that current healthcare delivery models are unsustainable, with demand, costs, and expectations all outpacing system capacity.
Dr. Indu Bhushan, former CEO of India's National Health Authority, outlined a three-test framework for evaluating new health technologies: meaningful improvement, cost-effectiveness, and equity of access.
IHH Healthcare (搜索) hosted the second edition of its flagship regional leadership conference, FutureHealth.Now, in Singapore, bringing together more than 300 leaders from government, healthcare, technology, finance, and investment sectors. Under the theme "Redefining the Care Stack," the conference addressed how stronger partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem can better respond to evolving patient needs against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, supply chain disruptions, and rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and precision medicine.
The gathering provided a platform for industry leaders to explore how innovation, technology, and new models of care can help tackle rising healthcare costs, workforce pressures, and growing demand for services across the region.
Redefining the Care Stack
In his opening address, Ashok Pandit, Group Chief Corporate Officer of IHH Healthcare (搜索), described the "care stack" as the combination of people, technology, financing, and policy that must work together to support high-quality care in an increasingly complex healthcare environment.
"Healthcare systems today are facing pressures like never before. Demand is rising faster than capacity, costs are increasing faster than affordability, and expectations are growing faster than our systems can adapt," Pandit said. "The way we have delivered healthcare for the past 50 years will not be enough for the next 50. That is why we are redefining the care stack – bringing together people, science, technology, infrastructure, capital, policy, and trust to reimagine how care is designed and delivered."
He articulated the organization's core objective: "Ultimately, our goal is simple – better outcomes, greater access, and better value for patients."
A Framework for Value in Healthcare
Among the conference's key discussions was a session on balancing cost and outcomes in healthcare, featuring Dr. Indu Bhushan, Economist and former CEO of India's National Health Authority, alongside Lawrence Lam, Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Hong Kong, and Professor Joseph Sung, Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. The session was moderated by Dr. Kamal Amzan, Chief Executive Officer of IHH Healthcare (搜索) Malaysia.
Dr. Bhushan, best known for spearheading Ayushman Bharat (搜索) – India's national health assurance scheme covering more than 500 million people through cashless, paperless access to public and private hospitals – offered a framework for how policymakers, providers, payors, and patients can align around a shared definition of value.
"Value is an outcome, cost is an input," Dr. Bhushan stated, adding that from a patient and society perspective, value means better health outcomes, equity, and improved population health for the resources available.
He outlined three tests he applied when deciding whether government should support new health technologies while leading India's National Health Authority: whether the improvement is meaningful and not merely statistical, whether it is cost-effective relative to existing alternatives, and whether it improves or undermines equity of access between those who can and cannot afford it.
Drawing on India's experience, Dr. Bhushan noted that beyond financing, one of the biggest barriers to accessible and affordable healthcare is a lack of knowledge and information about available services – a challenge especially pronounced given India's diversity across states and populations. He added that government has a critical role to play not only in financing and infrastructure, but in regulation, given that healthcare markets are prone to failure through information asymmetry and misaligned incentives.
Investing in the Next Decade of Healthcare
The conference's opening panel examined how healthcare can become a driver of productivity, economic growth, and national competitiveness, and explored the role of investment, innovation, and technology in building more sustainable health systems for the future.
Healthspan: A Shift Toward Proactive Care
Reflecting the conference's focus on preventive and personalized healthcare, IHH Healthcare (搜索) Singapore unveiled Healthspan, an initiative that supports individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. Healthspan represents a shift from traditional episodic care to a proactive, continuous health management model centered on early detection, personalized interventions, and long-term wellbeing.
As a broader philosophy of care, Healthspan will be supported through a range of current and future offerings across IHH Healthcare (搜索) Singapore's network, including preventive screening, advanced diagnostics, genomic health, specialized services, and targeted programs. Bringing together clinical expertise, data-driven insights, and multidisciplinary capabilities, the initiative supports individuals across different life stages, helping them better understand future risks and take a more proactive approach to healthy ageing.
FutureHealth.Now 2026 builds on the inaugural edition of the conference held in Kuala Lumpur in August 2025, which convened more than 350 leaders and experts across healthcare, government, and business.