On its fifteenth anniversary, Built-in Well being Info Methods, Singapore’s nationwide well being tech company, has rebranded to Synapxe.
Since 2008, the company has been designing, growing, and implementing IT options that help the operations of 46 public healthcare establishments and over 70,000 healthcare employees. It additionally manages about 600 well being IT programs and greater than 80,000 end-point gadgets.
WHY IT MATTERS
As its new id suggests, the company acts like a “connector” that permits the stream of data throughout the well being ecosystem. It additionally has a renewed focus to speed up the event and deployment of next-generation well being applied sciences that can exponentially enhance well being outcomes.
“The intentional spelling of ‘Synapxe’ with an ‘x’ represents the multiplier impact, signifying how we speed up the subsequent era of well being improvements that result in a major leap ahead with exponential outcomes,” it defined in a press release.
In the meantime, Synapxe is launching new AI-powered well being options. One in every of them, the ACE-AI (Assisted Persistent Illness Clarification utilizing AI), might be piloted with 20 GPs by yearend. The AI software identifies threat elements and automates threat calculations to detect early indicators and dangers of persistent illnesses.
One other answer, AIM.SG, is a vendor-neutral platform that permits the speedy growth, testing, and deployment of AI imaging fashions. Co-developed with SingHealth and NTT Knowledge, the know-how might be piloted at Changi Common Hospital and Singapore Common Hospital.
The company can be working with the Nationwide Healthcare Group Polyclinics for a undertaking that can assist enhance sufferers’ medicine adherence. At present at its early experimental stage, the AV-MED (Augmented Video Analytics for Remedy Adherence) makes use of object detection AI modelling and video analytics to seize sufferers’ drugs consumption.
THE LARGER TREND
Earlier this 12 months, then-iHIS launched HealthX, its platform for fostering collaborations and facilitating expeditious growth and deployment of progressive know-how options.
Synapxe can be the driving pressure of know-how growth that powers the Ministry of Well being’s nationwide preventive healthcare programme, More healthy SG, which was formally launched in July. It was behind the creation of the More healthy SG Open Structure and Nationwide Well being Info Grid which allows interoperability and knowledge trade throughout the healthcare ecosystem.
The company additionally introduced current international partnerships. It lately tied up with Google Cloud and Accenture to deploy the API administration platform, Apigee, which supplies third-party builders entry to knowledge and companies of Synapxe’s managed programs to create new purposes.
It additionally expanded its partnership with Microsoft to develop good purposes with generative AI.
ON THE RECORD
“As we step into the longer term to encourage tomorrow’s well being, Synapxe will proceed to harness the transformative pressure of good applied sciences like generative AI and cloud to energy key programmes together with More healthy SG, to enhance the well being of our folks and guarantee a future-ready well being system for Singapore,” stated Synapxe CEO Ngiam Siew Ying.