Big data in managing the future health of Singapore

(World Scientific) Singapore's population is aging. The allocation of resources is a crucial element to better healthcare infrastructures, patients' care and cost effectiveness. Thereby, patients' must be equipped with the right tools to decide on the types of medical care and treatments. Singapore has shown that the availability of good data and analytical work of big data such as projections, disease management (e.g., 'Healint') and health expenditure models can better equipped the greying population to better health care.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news