Singapore – Synapxe, the national HealthTech agency, has launched HEALIX, an advanced platform designed to empower health through learning and intelligent exchange. The announcement was made by Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information & Health, Dr Janil Puthucheary, at the Asia Tech x Singapore event this morning.

HEALIX represents the first comprehensive cloud-based analytics platform for Singapore’s public healthcare sector. Utilizing cutting-edge cloud-native tools, the platform supports the rapid development of AI models aimed at improving patient care. It consolidates the public healthcare sector’s data needs into a single platform, facilitating collaborative possibilities and efficiencies through data-driven insights and AI.

Starting in June 2024, all public healthcare entities will begin onboarding to HEALIX. This platform is designed to provide a standardized, secure, and scalable environment for conducting analytics projects. Public healthcare entities and government agencies will benefit from faster access to a comprehensive set of de-identified data, achieving significant savings in costs and manpower compared to maintaining individual data analytics systems. This will accelerate the development of analytics models for various uses, including population health-related research, advancing the vision of a Healthier SG.

Ms Ngiam Siew Ying, CEO of Synapxe, highlighted the platform’s significance: “HEALIX represents a groundbreaking step for Singapore’s public healthcare ecosystem, through the development of a comprehensive cloud-based analytics platform. Over time, it will provide more cutting-edge cloud-native tools to meet the AI and machine learning needs for research and development in public healthcare use cases. This forward-thinking initiative demonstrates Synapxe’s commitment to enabling public healthcare users to leverage data and insights across the entire sector in a safe, transformative, collaborative, and cost-effective manner, ultimately delivering a positive impact for health in Singapore.”

In collaboration with the industry, HEALIX will be housed on both the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) and Healthcare Commercial Cloud to ensure seamless integration of actionable insights. To support HEALIX’s capabilities, Synapxe is partnering with AWS to develop the consolidated data infrastructure for the platform.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Synapxe and AWS was announced at the AWS Singapore Summit on 7 May 2024. Under the MoU, Synapxe will gain early access to AWS’s new tools and services, including generative AI, data analytics, and machine learning best practices, ensuring seamless interoperability and connectivity of the HEALIX infrastructure.

Elsie Tan, Country Manager, Worldwide Public Sector, Singapore, AWS, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership: “AWS is proud to be one of the key partners to collaborate with Synapxe on HEALIX, which will empower all public healthcare providers in Singapore to unlock, connect, and transform data into actionable insights to deliver better patient outcomes. We look forward to deepening our collaboration with Synapxe to boost healthcare innovation leveraging the power of cloud and data analytics, and accelerate public sector adoption of AI together as partners under the AWS AI Spring program.”

To achieve its long-term objective as a future-ready, open, and scalable analytics platform, Synapxe will continue to collaborate with more industry partners, including service providers in data intelligence, data visualization, and system integrators. These partnerships will help strengthen HEALIX’s ability to operate with diverse data sources and sophisticated analytics and AI solutions, fostering greater innovation to meet the growing needs of the public healthcare sector.