Acknowledging the significant challenges presented by Singapore's aging population, constrained healthcare workforce, and limited hospital bed capacity, Alexandra Hospital's Healthcare Redesign Team is dedicated to catalysing and facilitating care transformation through technology.
Our goal is to promote the adoption, dissemination, and enhancement of best practices with the assistance of technology. Ultimately, this will lead to the formation of the Alexandra Virtual Hospital.
Alexandra Virtual Hospital aspires to revolutionise Singapore's healthcare by creating a virtual medical ecosystem that transcends physical boundaries. We are committed to providing accessible, high-quality, and patient-centric healthcare services that empower individuals to take control of their personal health and well-being. Through cutting-edge technology, telemedicine, and a dedicated team of healthcare professionals, we aim to break down the barriers to healthcare access, ensuring that everyone, regardless of location or circumstance, can receive the best possible care.
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We meticulously select and streamline technologies based on key themes that will help to close the care gaps and reimagine how care is delivered.
With an urgency to accelerate innovate and technology adoption, we seek
- Near Market Ready solutions: Providing practitioners' insights, we co-create prototypes with industry to make them ready for testing in real world environment.
- Market Ready solutions: We pilot and validate market-ready solutions in the Smart Ward to demonstrate value, greenlane and scale.
To sustain digital transformation at Alexandra Hospital, we adopt an agile approach to introducing technology, allowing for iterative and incremental improvement based on feedback from care teams, as well as patients and caregivers. Training and Change Management move in tandem to ensure that healthcare professionals can effectively harness the new technologies and workflows. Data is collected and evaluated to foster continuous improvement and innovation.
A cornerstone of our virtual hospital is the Smart Ward Ecosystem. Launched in October 2022, the Smart Wards serves as a dynamic sandbox for innovation. Beyond being a hub for swift technological advancements, it offers a safe and controlled setting for the observation of patient well-being and the delivery of care.
As we continue to introduce cutting-edge technologies, the Smart Ward Ecosystem will evolve and expand. This expansion will not only usher in new models of care but also elevate the quality of care we provide to our patients.
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The Smart Ward is meticulously designed to enhance the healing journey of our patients. Here's what sets it apart:
- Switchable Glass: Our wards feature "switchable glass" that can turn opaque when privacy is required, ensuring patient confidentiality.
- Circadian Lighting: Throughout the wards, circadian lighting replicates natural light patterns, reducing eye strain and creating an atmosphere conducive to the healing process.
- Pod Design: Our unique pod design ensures sound insulation, privacy, and enhanced infection control. Moreover, these pods can be seamlessly transformed into isolation rooms when needed.
- Modular Walls: In times of emergency, our modular walls can be adjusted to accommodate additional beds, ensuring that we can cater to an increased number of patients without compromising quality care.
At Alexandra Hospital, we understand that the patients' well-being and safety are of utmost importance during their stay. Our commitment to providing top-quality care is reflected in the innovative technology we employ, particularly in the form of Smart beds.
Smart beds incorporate advanced sensors and indicators that enhance the quality of care and patient safety. These cutting-edge beds are more than just furniture; they are integral to our mission of delivering the best healthcare experience.
Smart beds may also come with features such as inflatable and therapeutic mattresses to relieve patient's pressure ulcers (beds sores).
Various brands of smart beds at Alexandra Hospital are currently undergoing trials as a proactive fall prevention tool. These beds are equipped with state-of-the-art motion sensors, weight distribution detectors, and alert systems.
By continuously monitoring the patient's position and vital signs, smart beds can swiftly detect any changes in position or weight distribution. If a patient attempts to leave the bed unsafely, an immediate alert will trigger, enabling care teams to respond swiftly and effectively.
Early warning can make a difference in our care team being able to deliver crucial interventions to save lives and prevent complications.
A bedside sensor, utilising thermography, machine learning, predictive algorithms, and image processing techniques, allows for the detection and prediction of bed-exits. The smart monitoring system allows a 15-second pre-exit lead time for care team to intervene before the patient assumes a standing position from the bed.
Smart glasses worn by personnel on-site allows clinicians at other locations to get a first-person view of the patient, which cannot be achieved with other devices such as smartphones. Providing a live stream video and audio of the situation, the glasses facilitate collaboration amongst the multi-disciplinary care team to assess, provide feedback and intervene in real-time; while the personnel wearing the Glass can be hands-free to perform clinical procedures conveniently.
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Through the use of modern wireless heart monitor holter that is lighter and able to monitor longer periods of time, patients no longer need to use bulky devices with lots of wiring that collect 24 hours worth of data. Patients also are able to more comfortably carry their daily activities while the having holter monitors their vitals.
Following the monitoring period, the data collected by the holter is uploaded to a propriety platform for analysis by professional cardiac technicians.
3D Food Scanner, powered by
artificial intelligence, captures and analyses 3 Dimensional (3D) Images of
patient meals (before and after consumption), enables accurate and automated charting of a
patients food and nutrition intake. This reduces our nurse's time needed to
chart the patient's food intake.
Through the use of popular chat app and secure government electronic forms, patients are able to measure their vital signs (such as blood pressure, heart rate, glucose levels, weight and more) and report them to their care team at regular intervals. This provides a more comprehensive and up-to-date view a patient's health as compared to infrequent in-person visits.
Care teams are able to better to help patients manage chronic diseases, preventing complications, reducing potential hospitalisations and improve health outcomes remotely and without the need to visit the clinic.