[[Singapore Government Driven Approach for AI in healthcare.pdf]] Reason 1. Rapidly ageing population (Decline Birth Rates. Increasing life expectancy) 2. Increase public healthcare expenditure 3. Priorities for Singapore are healthy aging, digitalisation in healthcare and improving diagnostics and quality of life for priority diseases. In 2019, government launched National AI strategy (NAIO) to oversea consolidation of efforts. 1. Security 2. Smart estates 3. Education 4. Logistics 5. Healthcare 1. Chronic Disease prediction and management 1. Diabetes, Hypertension, High blood Cholesterol Singapore launched NEHR, Healthhub. Also active in developing standardized assessment for AI in health, diagnosis, triage, and treatment decisions via WHO. AI for early detection of chronic diseases. - So far, National Eye Center, Singapore Eye Research Institute, and NUS school of computing - recognise diabetic eye disease. Screen for Glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration - TTSH developed a Command, Control and Communications (C3) system for healthcare. - Real time visibility of the hospital's ground operations and uses AI to predict situations and allocation of resources. - NUS - Discovery AI platform. - predict diagnosis of appendicitis based on free text.