KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 -- Malaysia's "Look East" policy is almost as old as I am but when it comes to healthcare perhaps it would do us good to look south instead - to Singapore.

I spent an afternoon there to witness demos on how SingHealth, the country's largest public healthcare group, is leveraging technology in ways that are not so much sci-fi flashy but instead, are more usable and accessible.

As someone with a lot of experience with Malaysia's own public healthcare it was certainly interesting, perhaps even discomfiting, to see in person the stark differences between Malaysia and Singapore's public healthcare infrastructure.

But that is another story.

That afternoon I was ushered into a designated area where media from various So...