How Singapore’s public healthcare is using iPads and iPhones to save time and ease patient nerves (VIDEO)
Singapore's public healthcare system is increasingly integrating Apple devices like iPads and iPhones to improve efficiency and patient experience. The author compares this tech-forward approach to the infrastructure in Malaysia.
Why it matters
It demonstrates how consumer-grade technology can be adapted to improve public health service delivery and patient comfort.
Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 — Malaysia's "Look East" policy is almost as old as I am but when it comes to healthcare perhaps it would do us good to look south instead — to Singapore.
I spent an afternoon there to witness demos on how SingHealth, the country's largest public healthcare group, is leveraging technology in ways that are not so much sci-fi flashy but instead, are more usable and accessible.
As someone with a lot of experience with Malaysia's own public healthcare it was certainly interesting, perhaps even discomfiting, to see in person the stark differences between Malaysia and Singapore's public healthcare infrastructure.
That afternoon I was ushered into a designated area where media from various South-east Asian countries witnessed demos of how SingHealth is incorporating devices such as iPhones and iPads into healthcare practices.
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