Dr Chong Yoke Sin, CEO, Integrated Health Information Systems, Singapore, talks to ETHealthworld about the advantages of IT in healthcare.
1. Tell us about the advent and progress of IT in healthcare in Singapore?
Healthcare in IT in Singapore started 30-40 years ago, when we had the first systems that were focused on billing of patients. Since then we have progressed towards clinical systems and electronic medical record at acute hospital and outpatient level.
The next phase is to go from an acute hospital setting and counter towards whole of patient encounter where the care plan for every patient can actually be followed from our healthcare system. We are basically going from healthcare provider centric IT system to the one which is totally patient centric. For the full article click here
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