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“Everyone is working towards the same target, even though no one talked about it,” said Professor Tomohiro Kuroda, CIO, Kyoto University Hospital (KUHP), Japan.
Lunit INSIGHT MMG was first introduced at the 2018 RSNA annual meeting.
“There is a lot of discussion within the government to allow telehealth services in South Korea. It is one of the ‘new normal’ after COVID-19,” said Dr Hwang Hee, CIO, SNUBH.
Technologies adopted to tackle the COVID-19 situation at TTSH included the Staff Surveillance System (S3), Command, Control and Communications (C3) system and a real time location system (RTLS).
Earlier in March, IHH had also invested in Singapore-headquartered telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere.
In this episode of The Alessi Agenda, Woodlands Health Campus CEO Dr. Jason Cheah discusses how global examples of EMRs, robotics and telehealth helped shape the digital transformation and patient journey in Singapore.
“One of the most apparent shifts we’ve seen is how COVID-19 is spurring the move to virtual care,” said Caroline Clarke, Executive Vice President and Market Leader, Philips ASEAN Pacific.
Case studies from countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand show different hospitals' initial responses, successes and best practices in the thick of handling the pandemic.