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IHiS works with the Ministry of Health
leveraging cost-effective technology to
support over 50,000 health care users.
Our goal is to build a resilient and
intelligent health
administration system for Singapore.
During the height
of the pandemic in May 2020,
we needed a way to reduce the crowd
gathering at the public health care
or community care facilities.
So we came up with an idea where
patients took ownership of their health
by self-tracking their vitals like
temperature, blood pressure,
and oxygen saturation during
their time in isolation.
Later on, clinicians can monitor this vital
submission remotely
to do a clinical intervention.
Therefore, a platform was created
called "Health Discovery",
which is really about vital sign monitoring.
Or we just simply call it HD VSM.
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We realized HD VSM was applicable
beyond COVID-19;
thus HD+ was created.
The core idea is still
about empowering patients
support their primary
and post-discharge care needs
like basic hypertension, cardiac rehabilitation,
diabetes management, and so on.
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We really need something agile to
set everything quickly, yet scalable,
while not compromising the security
aspect of our platform.
And with many technology stack of
IHiS built on Microsoft,
this made Microsoft Azure an obvious
choice to deploy our solution.
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So HD+ improves efficiency.
So the patients submit their vital
signs via the mobile app,
and we are able to see them
on our clinician dashboard
and appears color-coded in terms
of the priority and urgency.
Another feature allows us to survey
patients via the mobile app,
and the required
data appears on our dashboard.
HD+ doesn't just help
patients monitor vital signs,
but also sends important reminders
via mobile notifications.
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Overall, HD+ helps community nurses
to remotely monitor
residents with hypertension
and eliminates the manual transcription of
BP readings into our medical records.
This frees up the time for community nurses
to focus on residents
who require more care and
support in the community.
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As of end May 2022, 80 enrolled residents
had abnormal BP readings.
The HD+ dashboard flagged them up
to our community nurses,
who promptly followed up with the residents.
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More than 1,000 patients use
HD+ across 16 polyclinics
to monitor their blood pressure
using HD+ mobile app.
More than 160,000 vital
signs have been collected
with 11,000 identified by HD+ for
clinical intervention to date.
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Our next priority is
expanding to other use cases
by developing what
we call "clinical protocols".
At the end of the day, we want to
help as many patients
as we possibly can for a healthier nation.
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