AI and Digital Humans – A Lethal Combination in the Future of Healthcare
As I was developing a guest lecture, I decided to explore how to develop my own digital human. While trying to write my script, I was surprised that at the…
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Inaugural Serious Games, Extended Reality & Metaverse Session by AHDDIU
I am honored to be a speaker at the Inaugural Serious Games, Extended Reality (XR) and Metaverse, i.e. SGXverse Session held at The Innovation Centre, SingHealth Tower next month. This…
Serious Games, Game-based Learning and Gamification – What is the Difference?
Throughout my career as a digital health practitioner, I have always advocated that for any digital healthcare technology or digital health innovation, the digital healthcare innovation cycle should always be…
ChatGPT in Healthcare – Is The World’s Most Popular AI-Chatbot a Boon or Bane?
Since the end of last year (Dec 2022), there has been lots of buzz about a new artificial intelligence (AI)-chatbot called ChatGPT, which uses natural language processing (NLP) to generate…
Where Surgery Meets the Metaverse
The “Metaverse” has become a new buzzword after Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta) presented his vision at the end of 2021. Since then, many tech companies and large organizations have…
Is Your Siri, Bixby or Alexa Trustworthy Enough to Manage Your Mental Health?
With the large number of mental health apps that have surface since the COVID-19 pandemic, I had previously written an article on the quality of mental health apps and what…
The Wikipedia Conundrum: To Trust Or Not To Trust
The Online Toaster Hoax This morning, while driving to work, I was intrigued to hear a report by the BBC about how a hoax post about the inventor of the…
AI Health Summit 2022 @ The Fullerton Hotel
I had the luxury to attend the Inaugural Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit held on 11 November 2022 at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. Organized by the SingHealth Duke-NUS (National University…
Digital Health Summit 2022 @ Sydney ICC
This year, the Digital Health Summit (#DHS2022) was held at the Sydney International Convention Center (ICC) on 17-18 October 2022. The Summit, co-organized by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health…
Rethinking Strategies for Integrating EMR Systems
In recent months, there have been several system failures with the health IT systems in public health institutions in Singapore. According to local news, the system outages were due to…