Why Innovate and Co-Learn?

Innovation is key to sustainable healthcare.

Singapore is facing a fast ageing population and shrinking workforce. It is essential for Singapore’s healthcare system to innovate, seek new ways to improve productivity and add value to our patients. This ensures that our patients will continue to receive high quality and cost-effective care in the future.

Co-learning enables us to achieve more together.

We believe in knowledge sharing and learning together. At CHI, there are no borders when it comes to learning. It is our mission to engage like-minded institutions and agencies to co-learn and co-create new healthcare innovations and new ways of learning.

 

 
 
 



Our Purpose

To spearhead change towards sustainable, value-based systems
To Promote a Culture of Innovation

By creating thought leadership; via focused partnerships and a flywheel of co-learning networks
To Achieve Better Health and Healthcare

By enabling workforce transformation; via new andragogy and paradigms for our communities of carers and patients. 

 

To Catalyse Value-Based Outcomes

By effecting systems-level change; via impactful programmes that drive innovation adoption and knowledge translation.


 

 
 
 



​Workforce Innovation

 

 

System Innovation​

We believe that to achieve, spread and sustain innovation, a systems approach is required. The Innovation Cycle is a framework to describe the macro stages for planning, implementing and improving upon innovation initiatives. The framework comprises three sequential stages, with each stage supported by iterative Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle(s).

The cycle advocates that (1) the first step to innovation in healthcare is to redesign the care/process to optimize value for patients and reduce waste, followed by (2) automation of a waste-free process. By leveraging automation and adopting technology to take over simple, repetitive but necessary jobs, manpower resources are freed up. This presents (3) an opportunity to review the staffs’ current roles and redesign their jobs, so that each staff performs more m​eaningful work at the top of his or her competencies.

The Innovation Cycle is a deliberate and iterative framework to describe and improve upon the process of improvement. If applied well, the framework can serve as a toolkit to guide the planning and implementation of strategic initiatives, so as to deliver value.

Innovation Cycle: An iterative process of workforce transformation that increases productivity and value

 

 
 
 



Who We Are

CHI is anchored by the CHI Co-Learning Network Council, CHI Co-Learning Faculty and CHI Co-Learning Management Committee. Dialogues between and within these committees are facilitated by the CHI team.



What We Do​​

 

 
01.​​​
Form partnerships and collaborations

The CHI Co-Learning Network aims to deepen co-learning and create opportunities for collaboration between our partners. With the support of CHI’s Co-Learning Management Committee and Faculty, we seek to spread the culture of innovation and translate innovations into actual practice.

02.
Support innovative projects and training

In line with our belief of driving innovation in healthcare to benefit and enhance the health of our patients and population, CHI is secretariat to the Ng Teng Fong Healthcare Innovation Programme, which provides grant support for training, innovation and community-enabling projects.

03.
Create opportunities for co-learning

Co-learning is key to our mission. Our CHI events, such as our masterclasses and conferences serve as platforms to enable learning and build mindshare.

04.
Provide a venue to bring ideas together

The Ng Teng Fong Centre for Healthcare Innovation is a purpose-built facility with state-of-the-art training and innovation resources to support continuous learning and innovation.

05.
Consolidate and spread knowledge

A common platform to house the existing knowledge and a gestation ground for new knowledge, a national knowledge management platform will be launched. This platform aims to accelerate knowledge sharing, facilitate collaboration and create new knowledge. Key focus areas include healthcare productivity, improvement, innovation, and academia development.