HealthTech – Not Just About Life and Death

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HealthTech is More than a Matter of Life and Death

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, health is a hot topic these days. Interestingly, even as this pandemic subjects healthcare systems around the world to a stress test (pun intended), it also brings about renewed interest in HealthTech solutions like telemedicine – its adoption rate shot through the roof in recent times.

But HealthTech is not limited to telemedicine. CEO of IHiS, Bruce Liang, will tell you that the National Electronic Health Record system is already saving patients the trouble of repeating their medical history to different doctors. And Outpatient Pharmacy Automation Systems are helping pharmacies streamline their manpower resources.

And that’s not all. With robots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D printing and sensors increasingly deployed in HealthTech innovations, we can expect HealthTech to play a bigger role – from disease detection and diagnosis to intervention, treatment and management. And in the fast-growing area of preventive healthcare? Digital therapeutics are making breakthroughs with predictive analytics.

Indeed, HealthTech not only presents an exciting future for patients and healthcare providers, but also HealthTech developers and startups. According to Prof Lim Chwee Teck from NUS Engineering – while it takes years for HealthTech solutions to go from lab to market, no day is the same in the lab.

Well, COVID-19 may have changed the world for good –but HealthTech is here to stay. So be sure to stay in the know. Enjoy reading!

TAN TENG CHEONG

Editor Fellow, SCS tan.teng.cheong@scs.org.sg

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