The Premier Healthcare Exhibition In Malaysia

APHM International Healthcare Conference & Exhibition 2026

Theme: From Volume to Value: Measuring What Matters in Healthcare Performance

In 2025, Malaysia’s private healthcare sector—spanning hospital providers and financial payers—found itself at a critical inflection point. Proposed increases in health insurance premiums, driven by unprecedented medical cost inflation, triggered widespread concern among patients and the public. These developments prompted swift intervention by regulators and key Ministries, including Bank Negara Malaysia, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Finance.

Today, private healthcare operates under heightened scrutiny. Paradoxically, this comes at a time when the sector continues to demonstrate strong growth, as reflected in the market performance of listed healthcare entities. Yet such growth can no longer be taken for granted. Continued regulatory oversight and payer pressure on medical pricing signal that the traditional volume-driven model is reaching its limits.

This moment demands a fundamental reassessment of how healthcare value is defined, delivered, and measured. The challenge ahead is clear: how do we continue to provide safe, high-quality care while ensuring affordability, efficiency, and long-term sustainability?

As cost pressures intensify, operating margins will inevitably be constrained. Productivity, therefore, must become the central lever for transformation—but productivity of what, where, and by whom? Should it be measured at specific points along the patient care continuum, across clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, or patient experience? And who bears responsibility for driving these improvements—clinicians, management, payers, regulators, or technology partners?

Equally important is the question of collaboration. In this new value-based landscape, hospitals cannot act alone. Strategic partnerships—with payers, digital health innovators, pharmaceutical and medtech companies, and policymakers—will be essential to redesign care models that truly deliver value.

This conference invites healthcare leaders to confront these questions head-on, to challenge conventional assumptions, and to collectively shape a future where performance is measured not by volume, but by what truly matters.

Day 1: The value of collaboration with regulators and payers.

Day 2: Effective healthcare. People, Patients, Partners.

Day 3: The Quest for Operational Improvements within Hospitals: how can we do more for our patients?