Singapore's national AI strategy to focus on chronic disease management and prevention

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Heng Swee Keat, today announced at the SFF X SWITCH (SingaporeFinTech Festival and Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology) Conference, a national Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy to transform Singapore's economy and improve the lives of citizens. The key approach of the strategy is to adopt a human-centric approach, and focus on delivering tangible benefits to citizens and businesses through AI. Drilling specifically into healthcare, the emphasis of the national AI strategy will be on chronic disease management and prevention. By 2022, the Singapore Eye Lesion Analyzer, Selena, a system which analyzes retinal photographs across the nation for diabetes screening will be deployed. By 2025, a retina-based risk score for high glucose, high blood pressure and high cholesterol (3H) related cardiovascular diseases will be developed.