SINGAPORE – A new AI-powered tool could soon be used to help residents better personalise individual dietary and exercise plans to meet their goals under Healthier SG.
HealthGuide@Home is a digital assistant that generates and refines personalised health plans based on information or preferences provided by the user.
With caregiving manpower constraints in Singapore’s current super-aged society, the use of agentic AI tools allows for the implementation of personalised lifestyle interventions on a national scale, said a team of researchers from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and its entities in a published academic paper on the small-scale testing of the tool.
Agentic AI is able to proactively figure out the sequence of steps needed to achieve a goal defined by its user, with minimal to no human intervention in the process.
Unlike traditional AI models, whose answers are limited to the data they are trained on, agentic AI can use computer tools as a human user would because it understands human language and responds dynamically.
The development of this artificial intelligence tool was outlined in the journal paper published by a group of policymakers from MOH and its entities – national healthtech agency Synapxe, the Health Promotion Board (HPB), and the MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation.
The paper was accepted in February by peer-reviewed journal npj Digital Medicine, published by Nature Portfolio, whose flagship publications include Nature.
Asked about the tool’s implementation plans and timeline, Synapxe told The Straits Times that findings from the published study “are being used to guide our ongoing effort to improve the Healthier SG experience for residents and support them in taking action for better health”.
HealthGuide@Home is likely to be rolled out for those enrolled under Healthier SG, according to the npj paper.
Healthier SG is the national preventative health initiative launched in 2023, which helps people to take proactive steps to manage their health, prevent the onset of chronic diseases and lead healthier lifestyles.
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