4 mins Ever wondered how the future of Community Hospital care in Singapore looks like? Over a series of four workshops, the MOHT Community Hospital of the Future team has co-created ground up solutions in an attempt to address the most urgent challenge faced in the healthcare system – acute hospital bed crunch. Photograph 1: Participants of
6 mins Our journey in creating a digital peer support network from conceptualisation to implementation. Unpacking youth mental health According to a NUS study, one in three youths in Singapore has reported internalising mental health symptoms such as sadness, anxiety and loneliness, and roughly one in six experienced externalising mental health symptoms, such as hyperactivity, rule-breaking and
3 mins Driven by community members themselves, ground-up movements tap on valuable social networks among residents and give them the ownership of their activities. The sense of ownership and allowing activities to be tailored to the specific needs of their community encourage the sustainability of movements. To create sustainable ground-up movements for health, MOHT and its
3 mins Singapore is undergoing profound demographic shift, with a quarter of the population predicted to be aged 65 and older by 2030 as compared to 14 per cent in 2019. A rapidly ageing population means more elderly will require hospital care with constant monitoring, but inpatient care brings its own challenges. Prolonged inpatient care can lead
4 mins Over the last two years, the pandemic has brought about many uncertainties and inconveniences, but also generated a new wave of technological and service innovations in healthcare. Fuelled by increasing healthcare demands and hospital bed shortages, there is interest to develop and validate new care models, including those enabled by technology and partnerships. Philips Technology
6 mins In January 2020, MOHT invited GPs to submit innovative proposals to answer the following challenge: “What innovative solutions can help significantly increase the number of chronic patients managed by GP clinics by at least 20% in the next 3 years, with achievement of good chronic disease control, and which are financially sustainable and scalable?” Project
