2 mins A warm welcome to National Health Service (NHS) delegates from the United Kingdom, who visited MOHT for a sharing session on ideas to innovatively shape public health systems.
3 mins The National One-Rehab Framework (One-Rehab) is a nationwide initiative to enhance patients’ rehabilitation journeys and outcomes by ensuring that harmonised outcomes, conditions and pathways are tracked through a common IT system. Senior Minister of State Dr Janil Puthucheary had announced One-Rehab at MOH Committee of Supply debate in 2021. To enable the implementation of One-Rehab,
3 mins Since 2020, riding on early work on Healthy Precincts in the wider Jurong area, MOHT has been working closely with stakeholders and residents in Boon Lay, to build this locality into what we jointly envision a Healthy Precinct can be. An exciting initiative that Boon Lay residents are looking forward to is our multi-way collaboration
2 mins MOHT received its first visitors from the United States since the start of the pandemic in 2020, from the Cedars-Sinai Health System (CSHS). At the meeting, both MOHT and CSHS cross-shared innovations relating to healthcare delivery in both Singapore and the US. Now that Singapore borders have reopened, MOHT was pleased to welcome Dr Heitham
5 mins Typically, staff from different organisations do not share patient information with each other. They may be aware that their patient is seeing another service provider, or may even make the referral themselves. But beyond that, data protection regulations and the lack of an integrated coordination platform mean that they rarely talk to one another, even
2 mins As Singapore’s population ages, we need to work on all fronts to engage our seniors to stay fit and healthy. One lesser-known aspect which has a surprising effect on health is the environment – it can encourage people to go outdoors, increase their physical activity, and even interact more with others. The Environment Audit Toolkit
