Healthcare IT News January 18, 2026
Adam Ang

The estate of Singapore’s legendary banker Khoo Teck Puat recently gifted the cluster over $100 million to help accelerate AI integration and population health research.

SingHealth, one of Singapore’s public healthcare clusters, has recently received a huge donation to accelerate its population health research, enhance community initiatives, and hasten the integration of AI in digital pathology.

The estate of legendary banker Khoo Teck Puat, who founded Maybank and held a major stake in Standard Chartered, gifted SingHealth SG$135 million ($105 million), which the cluster said is its largest donation to date.

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In a statement, SingHealth said the philanthropic gift will support population health research, social prescribing programmes, community health initiatives, and digital pathology, among key...

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