Inside A Hospital’s Fight Against The Coronavirus Pandemic | CNA inside | Sep 13, 2020 An article featuring the Singapore National Centre for Infectious Disease (NCID) was published by “CNA inside” on 13 Sep 2020 entitled “Inside a hospital’s fight against the Coronavirus Pandemic”. In the article, the real-time location tracking and contact tracing surveillance…
Category: Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Managing COVID-19: The TTSH Experience
By Dean Koh | HealthITNews | May 26, 2020 Technologies adopted to tackle the COVID-19 situation at TTSH included the Staff Surveillance System (S3), Command, Control and Communications (C3) system and a real time location system (RTLS). Read the full article at HealthITNews Extracts from HealthITNews: One of the innovations that has come into play during…
National Centre for Infectious Diseases uses RTLS to boost capabilities
Singapore RTLS technology by Cadi Scientific deployed in the National Centre for Infectious Diseases to boost operational efficiency.
Wearable Continuous Vital Signs Monitors for NUH and TTSH General Ward Patients
Cadi Scientific won the NHG Healthcare Supplier Awards 2017 for productivity improvement (merit award). The poster is entitled “World’s First Wearable Continuous Vital Signs Monitors for NUH and TTSH General Ward Patients” shown below. To improve patient safety in general wards while reducing nurses’ workload, Cadi Scientific has introduced and implemented the continuous vital signs…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital builds “artificial brain” to manage services
Exclusive interview with Jamie Lim, COO of Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Changi General Hospital, and IHiS win Asia Pacific HIMSS Elsevier Award
Channel NewsAsia, news article (extract), October 22, 2013: Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Changi General Hospital and IHiS — the Health Ministry’s IT arm — have clinched the Asia Pacific HIMSS Elsevier Award for using innovative techniques to improve patient care. One technique employed by Tan Tock Seng is a bedside tablet which records a patient’s…
Medical device interface helps TTSH nurses halve the time for recording vital signs
Straits Times, news article (extract), June 28, 2012: Nurses at Tan Tock Seng Hospital have nearly halved the time they take to record patients’ blood pressure, pulse rate and other vital signs, thanks to a gadget which captures data on the go. The Medical Device Interface （MDI）— which runs on a tablet computer — automatically…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital uses RFID to monitor patients’ temperature
RFID Journal, article (extract), January 28, 2009: One of Singapore’s busiest health-care facilities finds that the system improves patient care, reduces labor costs and provides better clinical data. Tan Tock Seng Hospital first rolled out radio frequency identification technology in 2007 to track more than 1,200 patients throughout its facility, and to be able to…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital uses automated wireless temperature monitoring to enhance patient care
Straits Times, news articles (extract), December 29, 2008: Devices taped to patients relay the data, freeing nurses for other tasks … The tiny, wireless device automatically took the 83-year-old’s temperature and beamed the readings to the laptops of the nurses who worked in her ward. The setup allowed the hospital to monitor Madam Lee’s body…
RFID technology enhances patient care and resource utilization at Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Hospital IT Europe, article (extract), autumn 2008: The award-winning implementation of CADI RFID technology by Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, resulted in improved patient flow, better bed management process and resource utilization … Benefits of SmartSense that TTSH highlighted include … Nursing teams on wards are now able to anticipate and better manage their workload…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital publishes findings on a wireless temperature monitoring device
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore; abstract (extract); October 2006: In the era of epidemics, temperature monitoring is crucial in determining the rate of infection and evaluating treatment plan. This revolutionary new wireless temperature monitoring device, which is able to detect skin temperature continuously, will minimise contact with patients, and enable the analysis of trends in body temperature to aid…
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