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.
The pilot study of 20 residents and seven clinicians showed that there was a generally positive user acceptance of this AI assistant.
The majority of residents valued the personalisation and level of granularity in the recommendations, and did not express major concerns about the recommended plans.
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