Smart wards: Singapore hospitals use technology to cope with manpower shortage

The smart ward team at Tan Tock Seng Hospital has leveraged digitalisation, robotics, and artificial intelligence to change the way its staff work and care for elderly patients. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Reaching an elderly patient within seconds before he gets off his hospital bed and falls, or nurse clinicians using hands-free wearable devices to update doctors who are off-site on the patient’s condition to get direct input for his care plan.

Such automation, deemed as the future of hospitals, is already in Singapore as healthcare institutions here shift to smart technology to address manpower shortage in healthcare and to look after a rapidly ageing population.