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Norman Ng Reflects on Drug Pricing and Patient Assistance in Hong Kong

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May 13, 2025, 09:26

Norman Ng Reflects on Drug Pricing and Patient Assistance in Hong Kong

Norman Ng, Director, Patient Advocacy and Public Affairs at Healthcare Thinkers, posted on LinkedIn:

“Can artificial intelligence help?

It’s Monday again, and it’s the two of us again, so what do you want this time? This is a good medicine for Hong Kong, and someone sent such information this morning, what is this? Awesome, President of the United States, Trump, why is it our business?

It’s not a question of tariffs, this time he said that the price of medicine is very high in the United States, five to ten times more expensive than other places, he said to do something, Ben, in fact, we also have such a situation in Hong Kong, so what? Basically, every place feels that its price is expensive, the United States has the United States, Hong Kong has Hong Kong, and we have always felt that the price, especially the price of new scientific research drugs, is really unaffordable, so Hong Kong has so many of these patient assistance schemes, PAP schemes.

Norman: “I used to go to your office to talk about the PAP program, and then you scolded me and said that it was so annoying, why did I bother you so much?”

Ben: “Actually, information will burst, from my earliest days to now, in fact, I don’t think there are hundreds of these plans, there are dozens of them, so can you imagine that an ordinary person, or even a patient, how can he get the information he should have, relying on people? By doctors? By nurses? By a pharmacist? Or by the pharmaceutical company?

At all, now we find that we can’t find some very convenient information on any platform, this platform is really lacking now, so we really need to find some artificial intelligence, absolutely, if an online platform can’t find the data, what artificial intelligence you use he can’t help you, because artificial intelligence has to rely on the information he has on the platform, the information that the online platform does not have, no matter how powerful the artificial intelligence is, he can’t find it, so this online platform we must put more information about these drugs.”

Good! Let’s visit our friends and ask if our AI friends can help, okay, see you next time!”

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