Singapore's Woodlands Health Campus will use technology for better patient care
18-Apr-17, The Straits Times
The first hospital facility in Woodlands, the 1,800-bed Woodlands Health Campus (WHC), will depend heavily on smart technology to improve patient care in the face of a "shrinking workforce".
The campus, which is expecting to take in its first patient in 2022, will have both acute and community hospitals, a nursing home and specialist clinics.
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Both acute and community hospitals will share some medical professionals - so patients can seamlessly move from acute to step-down care with the same doctors in charge.
At the ground-breaking ceremony, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said WHC has to be "future ready" and that hospitals of the future can be air-traffic control towers "from which the healthcare team monitors its patients whether they are in the hospital or at home".