Alan Adcock, partner and deputy director of intellectual property and regulatory affairs, recently joined fellow members of LAN, the Lifesciences Asia-Pacific Network, in a video podcast on digital health and telemedicine in the Asia-Pacific region.

In Episode #10 of On the Pulse featuring LAN – Digital Health in Asia-Pacific, Alan (speaking on Thailand and Vietnam) and lawyers from CMS (China), Atsumi & Sakai (Japan), and Yulchon LLC (South Korea), discuss the following issues:

• a fragmented situation in APAC in terms of government policy and support for digital health initiatives
• a lack of a clear definition of “digital health” in most jurisdictions, and a mixed regulatory environment, with a need to update the laws in many jurisdictions
• how to deal with privacy concerns with the use of personal data with digital health technologies
• how to protect the intellectual property associated with digital health innovation
• developments in telemedicine in the APAC region and support for remote care and online consultations

The video podcast is available to watch online, free of charge, here. An audio-only version is also available here.