Adj Asst Prof Selina Seah

Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Transformation), Changi General Hospital Development Lead, Eastern General Hospital Campus Director, Centre for Healthcare Assistive & Robotics Technology (CHART)

Assuming concurrent roles as Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Transformation), Changi General Hospital, and the Development Lead for Eastern General Hospital Campus, a new regional health campus to serve the growing needs in the eastern part of Singapore, Selina provides leadership and direction for care transformation, looking at developing enablers in infrastructure, technology and innovations. She is also the Director for the Centre for Healthcare Assistive Robotics and Technology (CHART), which performs R&D and drive the adoption of robotics and assistive technology and evaluate its impact. With an eye on Singapore’s future healthcare landscape, she is also working on strategic partnerships as Deputy Chair at the SingHealth-Duke NUS’s Academic Medicine Innovation Institute.

Transforming Healthcare Delivery Through Robotics & Automation

By 2030, around one in four citizens (24%), will be aged 65 and above. This is expected to drive up demand for healthcare services, which is provided via a spectrum of diverse processes in the hospital. However, this also means that our workforce is also aging, and it will not be sustainable to continue working in the current concept of operations if we want to improve productive longevity. By leveraging emerging technologies to transform the process of healthcare delivery, our healthcare professionals can focus on the skills they have been trained and the human touch. Greater synergies can be achieved when such transformations are integrated across systems.