- Enhance public health surveillance and strategy
- Optimise health services and resource planning
- Improve safety management and quality of care
- Reduce unnecessary cost such as duplicate or inappropriate exams and treatments
- Pharmacovigilance
- Monitor healthcare provider performance
Health authorities cannot afford to waste resources on inappropriate and avoidable interventions. They have to prudently balance the care needs of our ageing society in which each person is accumulating more and more diseases, more expensive treatments, new diseases and the need for quality improvements. The judicious use of vast health data is a major source of information for developing future proof care strategies.