In early April 2017, the Singapore digital health and data analytics company Holmusk announced a collaboration with the National Heart Center Singapore (NHCS) to improve care in the field of heart failure and coronary artery disease using big data analysis.
This three-year partnership aims to develop better predictive models that can be validated for use in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the city-state.
Holmusk and NHCS will develop tools to facilitate clinical decisions
Supported by the Economic Development Board of Singapore (EDB), Holmusk will work with NHCS until 2019 to analyze aggregated data from the Singapore Cardiac Outcomes Longitudinal Database (SingCLOUD), the longitudinal study on heart health of Singaporeans database.
Objectives:
- get a better overview of the evolution of heart disease in the city-state;
- develop effective tools for clinical decision support.
« Our aim in this project is to track clinical outcomes and design targeted intervention strategies that improve care in patients with heart failure or coronary artery disease, » said Associate Professor Yeo Khung Keong, a senior consultant at NHCS.
A collaboration focused on the development of advanced analytic practices
« Our focus is to bring cutting edge analytic practices that facilitate early detection and early intervention to engage patients before they become chronic. This initiative could turn into a nationwide effort to optimize efficiency and improve clinical outcomes for cardiovascular patients in Singapore, while providing a gold standard of reference for the APAC region, » said Nawal Roy, CEO and founder of Holmusk.
« This partnership is a promising example of local private and public sector collaboration to create data-driven healthcare solutions which will improve healthcare in Singapore and the region, » said for her part Weng Ho If, director of the Biomedical Sciences division at EDB.
Singapore: cardiovascular diseases cause a dozen deaths every day
In Singapore, about sixteen people die every day from cardiovascular disease. In 2015, the disease accounted for 29.6% of all deaths in the city-state, which means that nearly one in three deaths resulted from heart disease or stroke (official figures).