For healthcare organisations to safely adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI), the focus must be on achieving high accuracy in documentation and ensuring ethical, patient-centric deployment. The Singapore Ministry of Health is investing SG$200 million over five years to develop and scale AI innovations for system-wide national projects, including the use of the AimSG platform to continuously monitor the accuracy of imaging AI models used by public hospitals. Synapxe, the national healthtech agency, is developing various AI projects, including the HealthHub AI conversational assistant and the GenAI platform Tandem, all operating under its healthcare governance.
Andy Ta, Synapxe's Chief Data Officer & Director Data aNalytics & AI (DNA), emphasised the necessity of strict safeguards, stating, "However, the widespread use of AI also includes inherent risks and ethical concerns, underscoring the importance of safe and responsible design and use." Ultimately, the goal is for technology to serve only to enhance and enable human expertise, never to replace the clinician as the decision maker.
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