Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Deploys Active WiFi Tags for Patient Tracking

HEALTHCARE ASIA | 20 Mar 2025 Khoo Teck Puat Hospital’s (KTPH) real-time location system (RTLS) makes it easier to track medical equipment, helping nurses and staff save 20,000 work hours a year by cutting the time spent searching for them. It also allows the state-owned Singapore hospital to seamlessly transfer patients between departments, Alvin Kuo, assistant director of…

Continuous Vital Signs Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients

As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, confirmed cases in Singapore will grow over the next few months, thus increasing the number of isolated patients that require close monitoring. This will result in higher demand for clinical resources. Technologies for automating vitals signs taking will help to ensure that patients are effectively monitored, keeping…