SingHealth and Philips sign MOU to advance digital-first healthcare to future-proof care delivery

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and SingHealth, Singapore's largest public healthcare cluster, today announced a strategic partnership to enhance healthcare delivery through deploying innovative technologies and accelerating the digital transformation of the healthcare landscape in Singapore.

This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) inked between the two organizations signifies a significant step towards building a robust and standardized data architecture for SingHealth. By leveraging Philips state-of-the-art healthcare technologies, the partnership strives to enable seamless digital workflows and improve clinical decision-making. This allows care teams to enhance human interaction with patients, deepen connections and improve outcomes. This will advance SingHealth's goal to deliver care in a more patient-centric manner through a digital-first strategy.

"We are privileged to partner with SingHealth on this venture to accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare delivery in Singapore," said Hung Choong Hwang, Country Manager, Philips Singapore. "By combining our technological expertise with SingHealth's clinical excellence, we aim to set new benchmarks in healthcare innovation, quality and resilience, in line with our vision of delivering better care for more people."

Under the terms of the MOU, Philips and SingHealth will set up dedicated teams to drive three key projects over the course of three years, focused on integrating imaging data with AI, predictive data management to enable actionable insights and optimizing ICU capacities by boosting monitoring and patient assessment capabilities. As projects under the MOU progress, its potential scope may widen beyond these initial three projects to include other additional areas of collaboration where synergies and opportunities are identified by both parties.