Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic illness
Alexandra Hospital participated in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecoms provider StarHub with partners health technology companies ConnectedLife and Fitbit.
Called LifeHub+, the mobile app-based service seeks to connect clinicians and health coaches with patients at risk or dealing with health conditions. preventable chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
According to a media release, approximately 300 patients from AH and GP clinics will be the first to join the LifeHub+ service and track their health indicators and wellness activities. .
WHAT IT DOES
The LifeHub+ app provides insights into users’ health and well-being to help improve their condition. It generates a dynamic health score by collecting and analyzing health indicators such as step count, exercise exercise, sleep pattern, heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature variation, breathing rate and oxygen saturation, along with blood pressure and glucose data collected from third-party devices.
These health data can be shared with GPs, health coaches and other care providers, who can access them through the LifeHub+ dashboard.
Furthermore, users can set up reminder alerts for medication, exercise, or scheduled health checkups.
In the future, StarHub plans to add a lifestyle questionnaire and disease risk assessment tool to the service.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The LifeHub+ service aims to provide patients with a personalized health plan to improve their health and lifestyle management.
Physicians and general practitioners can use their health data and health scores to provide timely interventions to reduce risk factors for chronic diseases and to provide treatment options. lifestyle and dietary adjustments.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
ConnectedLife and Fitbit are on a mission to deliver integrated solutions that support the digital health ecosystem across Asia Pacific. This early year, Manipal hospitals in India link with them to enhance monitoring of patients’ post-operative conditions. In July, Bio Farma in Indonesia launched a preventive care project using the combined solutions of the companies in tandem with the Google Cloud platform.
ON PROFILE
Dr. Alexander Yip, clinical director of AH’s Healthcare Redesign Program, also added
“In line with our DARE+ strategy, we are leveraging our expertise in connectivity to create a digital health service that helps physicians allocate care and enroll their consenting patients into a holistic health plan.With LifeHub+, doctors can access the latest health data and assess their patients’ health quickly, accurately identify and intervene early when they spot risk factors,” explains Johan Buse, Head of Consumer Business at StarHub, explaining their new cloud-based digital health service.
