Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming global healthcare, but its rapid evolution requires equally strong advancements in governance, safety, ethics, and international collaboration. At AIRIS 2025, held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, global regulators, healthcare agencies, academic experts, and industry innovators came together to drive a unified vision: building a safer, more equitable, and regulated AI ecosystem for health.
Hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), the symposium expanded on the progress made at the 2024 AIRIS in Seoul and reaffirmed the world’s commitment to responsible AI.
🔗 Source: WHO – Countries, regulators and partners urge a collaborative approach to advance safe and equitable AI in health
https://www.who.int/papuanewguinea/news/detail-global/24-10-2025-countries–regulators-and-partners-urge-a-collaborative-approach-to-advance-safe-and-equitable-ai-in-health?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Why AIRIS 2025 Matters for Global Healthcare
The exponential rise of AI in diagnostics, treatment planning, drug discovery, public health forecasting and patient management has created both massive opportunity and greater responsibility.
“As AI becomes more sophisticated and its health applications expand, so must our efforts to make them safe, effective, ethical, and equitable.”
— Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
This underscores the urgency: the world must advance AI governance together to ensure AI benefits every population — not only technologically advanced regions.
Key Themes & Insights from AIRIS 2025
1️⃣ Lifecycle-Based AI Regulation
End-to-end regulatory oversight—from development to post-market monitoring—to ensure long-term safety and minimize patient risk.
2️⃣ Risk-Proportionate, Context-Specific Governance
Flexible, country-specific regulatory models with risk-based frameworks to support safe and equitable AI adoption globally.
3️⃣ Strengthened International Collaboration
Global cooperation to harmonize standards, reduce disparities in AI readiness, and build a trustworthy worldwide AI ecosystem.
4️⃣ Sustained Global Governance Through AIRIS
AIRIS affirmed as a long-term platform for transparent, coordinated AI governance, with WHO and MFDS expanding its global reach.
How Rugas Technologies Helps Healthcare Systems Meet These Global Standards
The challenges highlighted at AIRIS 2025 — fragmented systems, lack of regulatory alignment, limited AI readiness, and inconsistent governance — are exactly the areas where Rugas Technologies enables healthcare organizations to stay ahead.
Rugas Technologies helps hospitals, health systems and health-tech companies:
- Implement ABDM-aligned, compliant, and audit-ready digital infrastructures
- Deploy responsible and explainable AI models that meet WHO and national regulatory expectations
- Build secure, interoperable data ecosystems that reduce risk and improve transparency
- Conduct AI risk assessments, bias testing and governance audits
- Modernize legacy environments to ensure safe, traceable and lifecycle-managed AI integration
- Provide managed services, ensuring 24/7 monitoring, cybersecurity, patching and compliance readiness
By embedding global best practices — including those advocated at AIRIS 2025 — Rugas Technologies ensures that healthcare providers can innovate rapidly without compromising safety, equity or regulatory trust.
