Integrated Health Information Systems, Singapore’s national healthcare technology agency, has partnered with Google Cloud and Accenture to drive the development of data-driven applications to “deliver quality healthcare experiences” high and prioritize digital”.
Accenture is helping to roll out Apigee, Google Cloud’s API management platform, which will give third-party developers access to data and services on iHiS managed systems to create applications. and new possibilities.
The flexible API-based architecture resulting from this partnership will serve as “the connective tissue between data sources and applications,” according to iHiS assistant managing director Alan Goh.
Google Cloud has also integrated security features into the Apigee platform to give iHiS full visibility into the usage of its APIs. These include encryption key verification, identity brokers, traffic monitoring, and threat and vulnerability detection. These features also support iHiS efforts to protect patient data in compliance with Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act and Healthcare Services Act 2020, as well as awarding standards. international electronic data exchange such as FHIR, HL7 and DICOM.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Through the latest collaboration with Accenture and Google Cloud, iHiS ultimately seeks to drive innovation to improve patient experience, employee productivity, and residents’ health outcomes.
The agency is taking an “API-first” approach to facilitate data collection across healthcare systems. The API enables rapid information exchange between organizations and within organizations, thereby “reducing the need for duplicate data sets that take up costly storage space.” It is also expected to help eliminate data silos and enable flexible interoperability within Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem.
A secure API management platform by design is becoming “as essential as a stethoscope or x-ray machine,” said Sherie Ng, country manager for Google Cloud Singapore. It not only allows IT and development teams to focus on data upgrades, but it also helps organizations “fix staffing shortages, improving the transition between inpatient and outpatient care.” , while enhancing preventive care and precision medicine,” she added.
Moreover, it will empower them to come up with solutions”[give] patients have easier access to their health information and [offer] insights to inform population health management programs and public health policy,” noted Goh.
“With Apigee, we can scale our API program with in-house developers to deliver higher-quality, digital-first healthcare experiences,” he added.
TREND TO BIGGER
The implementation of the Apigee platform has led to the development of an Automated Facial Recognition Visitor Management System, facilitating a “smoother and more efficient” visitor registration process at sites. SingHealth facility. The system, initiated by iHiS and SingHealth, has been trialled at SingHealth Tower and Outram Community Hospital for the past five months.
To further improve patient engagement in the Singapore healthcare ecosystem, iHiS has also implemented The Clinician’s ZEDOC’s platform supports the management of patient-generated health data outside the hospital. Integrated with the HIS, it supports the timely exchange of health information between providers and patients, and provides real-time, useful insights to improve the healthcare experience of patients. patient.
Meanwhile, according to Goh, iHiS is looking to adopt commercial cloud API gateways “to expand our coverage and drive innovation in Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem.”
ON PROFILE
“Our Interoperable Business Blueprint for IHiS, based on Apigee, integrates IHiS systems, applications and capabilities under a single strategy – enabling insights based on real-time data and more agile operations to assist employees and their partners in providing personalized care, efficiency and information,” said Ng Wee Wei, CEO Country and Head of Southeast Asia Markets at Accenture Singapore explained.
