Huawei, Novartis & Mölnlycke: This Week in Healthcare
AI is reshaping everything – from industries and economies to team structures and workloads.
Huawei is using AI in education and healthcare to reshape how students learn and how patients are diagnosed and treated, as showcased at the Public Sector CEO Media Roundtable during MWC Barcelona 2026.
A new chapter for intelligent public services
At the Barcelona roundtable, Huawei’s Global Public Sector Business Unit brought together media and sector leaders to explore how AI and cloud infrastructure are being applied in higher education, Kâ12 schools and healthcare systems worldwide.
Framed under the theme Advancing Intelligence in Education and Healthcare to Create New Value, the discussion highlighted concrete deployments that move beyond pilots to atâscale platforms serving tens of thousands of learners and patients.
Chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer remain leading causes of death worldwide, yet access to timely diagnosis and treatment is still uneven across populations.
In response, Novartis has announced a major expansion of its community health programs to address persistent gaps in care.
The initiative aims to reach more than 30 countries by 2030, focusing on underserved communities where healthcare access is limited.
By combining local partnerships, early intervention and data-driven strategies, the programme seeks to improve outcomes on a global scale.
In 2025, Mölnlycke Health Care continued its 176-year legacy of clinical innovation by delivering sustainable solutions that improve lives for patients and caregivers in more than 100 countries, emphasised in its 2025 annual report.
Despite significant financial and operational pressures facing global healthcare systems, the company achieved a 4% organic sales growth and reinforced its position as a world-leading MedTech specialist.
By integrating customer-centricity with ambitious sustainability and digitalisation targets, Mölnlycke is actively working to revolutionise care for both people and the planet.
When the WannaCry ransomware attack hit the NHS in 2017, it exposed how quickly outdated systems can be exploited – and the severe impact security breaches can have on healthcare services. 34% of hospital trusts in England and 8% of GPs were disrupted, with staff locked out of critical data, and ambulances diverted.
Some trusts were still reliant on Windows XP at the time, making them hugely vulnerable to such an attack. It means there’s now a greater focus on updates and patches to keep healthcare systems secure.
But clinical networks extend beyond laptops and servers.
What about the other devices that are quietly connected to the same NHS infrastructure and handling information vital to patient care?
After all, it’s not always the phishing links that catch people out. In a world where almost everything is connected to digital systems, every device is at risk of attack. And that includes the printers healthcare workers use to manage prescriptions and patient records.
Meta Superintelligence Labs reached a milestone in health technology with its latest release – Muse Spark, a multimodal reasoning model that could transform how healthcare professionals and patients interact with medical information.
Muse Spark represents the first of its kind, a multimodal reasoning model that can perceive and analyse the world of its user – meaning this large language model (LLM) can see and understand what a person is looking at.
With support for tool-use, visual chain of thought and multi-agent orchestration, Muse Spark can be a helping hand in executing highly personalised healthcare applications. This assistant is the first product that has come out of Meta's AI overhaul, which sent the stock prices of Meta 8% higher.
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