With the ever-rising healthcare cost and ageing population, a SMART hospital is high sought after. This can only be built over time with iterations, and we have to start small with a segment of care.
In Singapore General Hospital, we build several innovations for our operating theatres. Our tenets are safety, synchrony, sustainability and social, which is applicable to many other areas.
We learnt that data type required may not be routinely collected. Existing infrastructure and its connectivity to the equipment may not exist. Workflow will needed to be adapted to new innovation and the workforce needs to prepared for re-training.
The definition of value creation should be diverse and beyond that of finances. With the world-wide insatiable need for healthcare provider, both patient's and staff experiences must be added in our equation for healthcare value.
