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Predictive AI can be the prescription for future of Singapore’s healthcare

The real transformation is not about replacing doctors with AI, but about empowering them with it.

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Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on doctors’ administrative burden, says the writer.

Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on doctors’ administrative burden, says the writer.

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Ilya Burkov

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Singapore’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung’s announcement in June 2025 that the country

will integrate predictive artificial intelligence (AI) into its national Healthier SG

marks a significant turning point.

Leveraging health records and AI to forecast disease risk years in advance will allow the industry to chart a course for a more proactive, preventive and personalised era of medicine.

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