Our Centres of Excellence in e-Government and Smart Health provide thought leadership, capability development, and collaboration opportunities within and across industries. Delivery through consulting and applied research, as well as bespoke training helps organisations stay ahead of the game in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Smart Health Leadership Centre
Smart Health Leadership Programmes set in place have seen fruition this year, with the inaugural cohort of 15 Professional Smart Health Leadership Diploma students graduating in a jubilant ceremony with inspiring project showcases. Cross-industry collaboration and co-creation continues to be a hallmark of the programme with applied research, corporate courses and industry speaking engagements resonating with health professionals across the country and abroad. We continue to build up relevant capabilities for a smarter health future.
Featured Projects
Digital transformation leadership workshop
Integrated General Hospital Patient Tracer; and Senior Technology Adoption projects
Industry Collaboration
NCSS Sector Design Challenge – collaboration, launched by Minister for Social & Family Development, Desmond Lee, in July 2019 at the Social Service Sector Summit, to catalyse an innovation culture across the entire family of 450 NCSS member organisations.
The designathon programme took place from July to November 2019, and included workshops and mentoring clinics to guide and support participants in building key design and innovation skills.
The programme concluded in November 2019 with the judging finals, during which the shortlisted teams pitched their solutions to a panel of esteemed industry judges. Winners were awarded funding to enable them to prototype and test their solutions, designed to create impact and be scalable.
- NUS-ISS provided advisory services to Ministry of Health Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) which has been extended into 2020
- Dr Matthew Chua, Lecturer & Consultant, Medical & Cybernetics Systems, Smart Health Leadership Centre continues to serve as the Associate Editor for IEEE Access
- Dr Matthew Chua took up the role as Technical advisor and Joint Honorary Faculty for Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
- Le NQ, Yapp E, Nagasundaram N, Chua M & Yeh HY (2019). Computational identification of vesicular transport proteins from sequences using deep gated recurrent units architecture. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2019.09.005
- Tan HX, Aung NN, Tian J, Chua M & Ou-Yang Y (2019). Time series classification using a modified LSTM approach from accelerometer-based data: A comparative study for gait cycle detection. Gait & Posture. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2019.09.007
- Zhao Z, Zhu H, Xue Z, Liu Z, Tian J, Chua M & Liu M (2019). An Image-text Consistency Driven Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Approach for Social Media. Information Processing & Management. doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102097
- Tan KK, Khanh N, Yeh HY & Chua M (2019). Ensemble of Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Identifying Enhancers via Dinucleotide Physiochemical Properties. Cells. doi: 10.3390/cells8070767
- Kwai L, Wang W, King K, Chua M, Wing J, Koh WK, Kai S & Yuen J (2019). Self-administered Auricular Acupressure Integrated with Smartphone Application for Weight Reduction: A Randomized Feasibility Trial. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. doi:10.2196/14386
- Healthcare Conference 2020
Invited as a Scientific Committee Member for Research, Innovations, & Commercialisations - Healthcare Innovation (CHI) Innovate Conference 2020 Invited to take up role of Scientific Committee Member
- Ms Tamsin Greulich-Smith, Chief of Smart Health Leadership penned the introductory chapter for a book entitled "Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing" to be published in 2020
Testimonials
"The workshops led by NUS-ISS Smart Health trainers were fun-filled and powerful as it got participants to think outside the box and build innovative capabilities within a short period of time. Our team of social workers benefitted by using the design thinking methods taught and co-creating solutions to improve clients’ outcomes and service efficiency."
e-Government Leadership Centre
eGL had a successful year delivering learning journey for the 764 public service officers and private sector leaders from January to December 2019. Singapore Cooperation Programme sponsored by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, continued to be a key engagement where we delivered programs in 7 countries, which included Palestine, Argentina besides ASEAN and Singapore, for 316 public service officers from 55 nationalities.
eGL also delivered a programme on Digital Leadership for the Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament and Members of Parliament. A learning journey programme, Data Driven Decision Making, co-funded by Temasek Foundation International, Singapore was designed and launched in Bangladesh in February 2019. This 18 month learning journey will equip 140 Bangladesh Public Service Officers on tools and techniques for data analytics. Another programme for Digital Business Leadership for CXOs of 50 leading IT and IT Enabled Services companies from Bangladesh completed learning journey over a period of 7 months, with sessions in Dhaka and Singapore.
"Our participants have great and positive feedback on the learning sessions over the last 4 years with eGL. We look forward to leverage on this collaboration to propel us to the forefront of transformation and excellence in citizen centric public service."
"This is a valuable programme that not only enabled us to review and reinforce our theoretical knowledge but also guided us through the practical journey on implementation. The presenters as practitioners were first class!"
Programme Highlights
eGL launched a project life-cycle based, outcome driven programme for 100 public service officers. This programme is co-funded by Temasek Foundation International, Singapore.
The programme was launched in February 2019 in Dhaka with a panel discussion on Data: Precious Resource of 21st Century. This session was graced by Mr. Mannan, Minister of Planning, Mr. Abdul Kalam Azad, SDG coordinator, Mr. Anir Chowdhury and other senior officers from Government of Bangladesh and Mr. Khoong Chan Meng, CEO and Dr. Leong Mun Kew, Director Graduate Studies, Institute of Systems Studies, NUS. Subsequently, 6 sessions were conducted in Dhaka for Leaders and Specialists such that the team was equipped with concepts, tools, techniques to define the problem statement and apply data analytics concepts to develop an analytics model prototype. This will be followed up with sessions in Singapore and in Dhaka in 2020.
Developing & Implementation of Digital Government Strategies, India
eGL delivered a comprehensive program on developing and implementing Digital Government Strategies for 24 government officers from Government of India. The programme was organised by National eGovernment Division and National Institute of Smart Governance. Participants were introduced to Singapore and global best practices and strategies. More importantly, the programme discussed proactive approach and policies for harness youth dividend in India for future of work and digital economy.
SCP continued to be a key engagement where we delivered programmes in 7 countries, which included Palestine, Argentina besides ASEAN and Singapore, for 316 public service officers over 13 sessions for 55 nationalities. The topics ranged from Entrepreneurship, Digital Government Strategies, Smart Nation Implementation to Digital Economy, Cybersecurity and Internet of things & Bid Data Engineering. The multi-national perspectives and exchange of ideas and implementation approached adopted enriched the discussions and learning journey. The programme also included site visits that enunciated implementation of the strategies and technologies.