Healthcare IT News October 21, 2024
The new investment will also promote the wider uptake of medical imaging AI by 2025.
The Singaporean Ministry of Health is investing SG$200 million ($150 million) over the next five years to further implement new AI technologies across the island-nation state’s health system.
This new infusion to the MOH Health Innovation Fund supports the development and testbedding of technological innovations, including AI, making a “centralised push to scale them up into system-wide, national projects,” the ministry said in a statement.
It includes a generative AI project that automates record updating, which will be rolled out across the public healthcare system before end-2025. The MOH said it is committing to promote the use of genAI tools to “automate repetitive and time-consuming...