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<p>This partnership also provides for academic exchanges where SIS faculty will play an active role in research studies and consultancy for KTPH. Students will be able to tap the adjunct faculty’s extensive experience for insights into the healthcare operations and service delivery. In turn, Alexandra Health staff will benefit from interacting with SMU faculty on ways to improve processes and operations. </p> | <p>This partnership also provides for academic exchanges where SIS faculty will play an active role in research studies and consultancy for KTPH. Students will be able to tap the adjunct faculty’s extensive experience for insights into the healthcare operations and service delivery. In turn, Alexandra Health staff will benefit from interacting with SMU faculty on ways to improve processes and operations. </p> | ||
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| − | <p> | + | <p>KTPH manages a huge amount of data from public health screening. These data potentially contains valuable insights about individuals’ health relative to their lifestyles and medical background, but knowledge is not being extracted effectively from these data. At the same time, KTPH initiates many programs to promote public health, but there is room for improvement, especially when there is a lack of a data-driven method to make decisions during the execution process. Last but not least, KTPH currently has no means to measure the penetration rate of their past alignment programs, and likewise, no means to fine-tune future programs to achieve higher penetration rate. |
| + | Data visualization is thus adopted by KTPH in collaboration with T-Lab as an ongoing effort to derive insights from their data-rich operations.</p> | ||
== Project Objectives == | == Project Objectives == | ||
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Project Introduction
Sponsor Introduction
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) is a 590-bed general and acute care hospital, managed by Alexandra Health System. Alexandra Health, together with the School of Information Systems (SIS) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) have established a partnership to work together to demonstrate fresh and better ways to serve and satisfy patients whenever they are interacting with the Alexandra Health system. Through this partnership, a joint mechanism known as the “T-Lab” has been established that enables students, staff and faculty of SMU’s School of Information Systems (SIS) to team with professionals from Alexandra Health to work on a continuing series of projects to improve service delivery, quality, productivity and experience.
This partnership also provides for academic exchanges where SIS faculty will play an active role in research studies and consultancy for KTPH. Students will be able to tap the adjunct faculty’s extensive experience for insights into the healthcare operations and service delivery. In turn, Alexandra Health staff will benefit from interacting with SMU faculty on ways to improve processes and operations.
Motivation
KTPH manages a huge amount of data from public health screening. These data potentially contains valuable insights about individuals’ health relative to their lifestyles and medical background, but knowledge is not being extracted effectively from these data. At the same time, KTPH initiates many programs to promote public health, but there is room for improvement, especially when there is a lack of a data-driven method to make decisions during the execution process. Last but not least, KTPH currently has no means to measure the penetration rate of their past alignment programs, and likewise, no means to fine-tune future programs to achieve higher penetration rate. Data visualization is thus adopted by KTPH in collaboration with T-Lab as an ongoing effort to derive insights from their data-rich operations.
Project Objectives
This project is a follow-up of an IS480 project by team Cinquefoil. Our aim is to improve the KTPH dashboard by adopting a richer set of visualization techniques, so as to enable a more user-centric data querying and discovery process. KTPH users will be able to use the dashboard to identify unhealthy individuals of the population, the areas they are in, take appropriate actions and monitor the results of such actions.
As such, the objectives of our analytics project consist of the following:
- To visualize effectively the current health condition of the public across various regions of Singapore
- To allow health officers to track the health progress of individual at risks
- To assist health officers in monitoring the penetration rate of KTPH alignment programs targeted at the general public
- To allow users to interact with visualizations, thereby forming their own query and arriving at their own findings
