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- To involve and motivate seniors in the exercises, a humanoid robot called Robocoach was created by students of Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) to educate seniors about fitness.
- Business time
"We can do more with less labor with less labor," said Chua Chee Yong, director of Emerging Services and Capacity at Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), on how technology can be exploited significantly to improve accessibility and productivity health care.
With about a quarter of Singaporeans aged 65 and over in 2030, the provision of appropriate health care to an aging population is an urgent concern for health care authorities.
The fourth episode of the Smart City Web series will showcase different solutions created to improve healthcare in Singapore.
For example, robotic arms located in hospital pharmacies serve to counter the lack of manpower in hospitals. They are armed with intelligent software systems that allow them to securely and efficiently select and package heavy loads of drugs.
Not only will they reduce patients' waiting time by half, but they will also help pharmacists be more productive and do more front-line work.
To involve and motivate seniors in the exercises, a humanoid robot called Robocoach was created by students of Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) to educate seniors about fitness.
The robot was sent to five higher activity centers. Since then, it has become a hit with the elderly, with activity centers for seniors signaling an increase in their participation with the presence of new robots in the centers.
A new version of the robot called Telebot is under development. The NP team plans to deploy Telebot to seniors to improve their social and physical well-being.
To enable older people to age at home with a sensor fireplace, Singapore Management University (SMU) is developing an initiative called SHINESeniors. The initiative will allow the team to install discreet sensors around seniors' homes to monitor their daily lifestyle.
If a deviation, such as a faint or a fall, from normal activities is detected, caregivers will be quickly activated to provide personalized care.
SHINESeniors benefited more than 100 seniors. SMU is studying the commercial opportunity with the goal of reaching more seniors in the near future.
Smart City is a six-part video series produced by The Business Times.
The series will cover some of Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives in areas such as electronic payments, digital identity and transportation.
Smart City is supported by the PSB program of Info-Communications Media Development Authority (IMDA).
Smart Nation is a Singapore government initiative to transform the Republic into a global city through technology and digital innovation.
The next episode will focus on digital identity in Singapore and how it is revolutionizing the way we interact online.
The web series will be published every two weeks from September to November. It will be available on BT and other platforms Singapore Press Holdings.
To watch the videos, go to bt.sg/videos
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