Information Technology

Digital Ward

Hospital of the future

Imagine a future where hospital wards have no paper case notes or files. Information on a Patient’s medical condition is automatically captured via intelligent context-aware devices and sent directly to the central computer systems.

Healthcare IT

Innovations for better care

Innovations will move to areas of consumer empowerment by providing greater access to services and information including personal health applications populated with data.

Medical Banking

A new stakeholder

As the management of healthcare data progressively moves to an electronic platform, banks are realising that their technical systems, privacy and security frameworks, identity management engines and marketing channels can be leveraged to fast forward e-Health.

Commoditising Healthcare IT

The next wave

With the costs of healthcare rapidly increasing, the monolithic model of HIT is no longer sustainable. HIT commodity capability that provides a new level of convenience and serviceability to the healthcare environment while being cost-effective.

Applying Path Innovation

Seeking revolutionary HIT

Healthcare requires a revolution in the way we deliver care by utilising IT in new and innovative ways. Path innovation allows experts to work together in the development of workflows that best leverage HIT.

Broadband Medical Network in Asia Pacific

The Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) can transmit high-quality moving images over broadband Internet lines. This network system is being extended to the entire Asia-Pacific region to promote the exchange of medical knowledge and standardisation.

EMR in a Large Healthcare Organisation

Development and implementation

The YUHS planned a new EMR system that integrated pre-existing systems within the new system. The philosophical objective was to achieve first class medical services with safety, reliability and convenience through IT.

RFID in Healthcare

Enabling patient safety

With the size and costs of RFID tags decreasing, their incorporation in surgical sponges, endoscopic capsules and endotracheal tubes is creating potential benefits in patient safety and diagnostics.

RFID in Healthcare

RFID is helping hundreds of healthcare facilities across UK, US and Germany to improve overall safety and operational efficiency because it operates without line-of-sight while providing read / write capabilities for dynamic item tracking.

Connected Healthcare

What next?

Healthcare in the 21st century will require a much higher degree of connectedness and mobility of information, knowledge, processes, devices and people.

eHealth and Healthcare Practice

The use of e-health can positively impact doctor-patient relationship promoting the mutual participation model of medicine, which implies that, e-health can promote a shared responsibility in decision making and problem solving.

Intelligent Health Networking

Changing our way of healthcare

The fundamental reason for the healthcare IT gap, and the lack of impact of ICT in healthcare relative to other industries, is that we are attempting to use an ICT framework that is mismatched to the new models of care.

Cardiovascular Medicine

Integrating IT for better care

New interventions are urgently needed to update cardiovascular practice to the level of fast pace in the other areas. The rapid and efficient cardiovascular services provided by these new paradigms will improve standard of care and cut cost by eliminating communication gaps, treatment errors and redundant diagnostic testing.

Healthcare IT in India

This changing scenario of the healthcare industry has drastically changed the IT requirements of hospitals. There are clear challenges within the current healthcare ecosystem that must be overcome before the healthcare revolution is realised.

Information Technology in Healthcare

Creating a stronger healthcare system

While improving computer systems would not eliminate all medical errors, researchers believe it will reduce the errors dramatically. Now is the time to share progress, challenges and best practices to enable interoperability and link the ecosystem in the delivery of better quality care.

Building a e-Hospital

Lessons from Taiwan

The application of information technology has improved the quality and lowered the cost of medical services in Taiwan.

Telesurgery in Asia

Are we there yet?

Telemedicine has traditionally been more popular with countries of huge geographical distances where access to medical care for patients leaving in remote areasd is scarce. However, telemedicine has proven itself to be viable in a land-scarce place such as Singapore.

Medical Errors

RFID to the rescue

RFID can provide an important contribution to improving the quality of treatment and increasing the safety of hospital routine.

Asia's Challenge to the Medical Manufacturers

The era of passive sales to local distributors is rapidly drawing to a close.

Medical Care

Wireless sensor networks

New opportunities now exist where medical systems can be developed which offer preventative care and focus on delivering this directly to the person at home.