Singapore's Health Promotion Board has actually partnered with a number of innovation business to pilot programs that intend to promote self-health management by providing data-driven, customised suggestions for avoiding and handling persistent illness.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The DigiCoach program with Abbott, together with Health2Sync, designer of a digital diabetes platform from Taiwan, will target pre-diabetic people or those with high body mass index.
It includes Abbott's FreeStyle Libre constant glucose display, which will be coupled with Health2Sync's mobile app to offer near real-time insights, assisting users end up being conscious of how their blood sugar levels impact their diet plan and exercises. In addition, the digital training element of the program will direct pilot individuals in making way of life modifications to much better handle their blood sugar level.
Another program with Google, HealthTrack SG, will concentrate on assisting individuals handle high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, or hyperlipidaemia.
Together with Fullerton Health and digital health tech business ConnectedLife, the program will gather individuals' way of life information, consisting of action count, exercise level, and sleep quality, through Fitbit physical fitness trackers, along with their scientific information, such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose levels. These information will be combined onto an online control panel for physicians and incorporated into an accompanying mobile application to be established by Google and ConnectedLife.
The mobile app will likewise supply suggestions and pushes, helping users in satisfying way of life changes vetted by Fullerton Health physicians.
WHY IT MATTERS
The HPB, which drives Singapore's nationwide health promo and illness avoidance programs, has actually looked for market cooperations to check out brand-new services to assist Singaporeans take more control of their health.
In a declaration, the firm stated approximately 6,000 Singaporeans are anticipated to join its most current pilot programs; enrolment for the 10-month DigiCoach by Abbott and Health2Sync started in July while recruitment for the year-long Google-ConnectedLife pilot will run in the very first half of 2025.
These programs are likewise anticipated to offer HPB data-driven insights into the health issues and way of life threats of Singaporean individuals. “All information gathered will be safeguarded and saved according to Singapore's information personal privacy and security laws,” it ensured.
Furthermore, HPB is checking out the possible to scale the programs to more Singaporeans when shown efficient and possible.
THE LARGER TREND
In Singapore, ConnectedLife and Google-owned Fitbit are currently associated with a cloud-based digital preventative health service by telecoms supplier StarHub. Alexandra Hospital in Queenstown, Singapore participated in the launch of this service 2 years back.
In the exact same year, the 2 innovation business likewise partnered with Bio Farma in Indonesia on a comparable preventative health effort utilizing wearable information.
ON THE RECORD
“Our most current partnerships with Abbott and Health2Sync, and with Google, ConnectedLife and Fullerton Health, will permit us to trial brand-new options that provide more prompt and actionable suggestions to Singaporeans to avoid or handle persistent conditions. These services can be possibly scaled up in future to assist more Singaporeans,” stated HPB CEO Tay Choon Hong in a declaration.
