Health Minister Ong Ye Kung at the opening ceremony of the 22nd Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress at the Singapore Expo on Oct 10 (Image Credit: Lianhe Zaobao)
Health Minister Ong announced that the Government is allocating $200 million to enhance use of artificial intelligence (AI) and genomics for preventive care. The articles highlighted HEALIX, a cloud-based analytics platform which allows secure sharing of data, developed by MOH and Synapxe. The cloud-based data infrastructure allows secure sharing of data and will be used for AI and machine learning for hospital operations and clinical decision-making. It was also mentioned that AimSG provides access to and monitors AI imaging models to ensure accuracy and patient safety. The ministry said that they will work with the Health Promotion Board and the healthcare clusters to study how AI can make the workflow for reading breast cancer screening images more efficient, and give patients their screening results earlier. If proven effective, progressive roll-out of screening using AI for mammography across the system will start from end-2025, with the proper workflows and care pathways in place.
View the full articles at:
- Public healthcare institutions will receive $200m boost to use AI, genomics data for preventive care (ST Online, 10 Oct)
- Singapore's public healthcare institutions will receive $200 million of funding support from the Government to better use AI tools (ZB Online, 10 Oct)
- MOH sets up new cloud-based "factory" to train and develop AI tools for healthcare (CNA Online, 10 Oct)
- Ministry of Health will invest $200 million to promote technological transformation in the Healthcare sector (8world, 10 Oct)
