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SINGAPORE - An automated device to screen for frailty and an app to better manage chronic diseases are among the new tools that are being studied or piloted to help keep Singaporeans healthy and out of hospital.

Such efforts are being given a $90 million boost to take population health research to the next level.

This helps lay the ground for a healthier population, and comes after the Ministry of Health announced its Healthier SG strategy last month that is aimed at getting people to adopt a healthy lifestyle early to prevent diseases and ill health.

SingHealth, which is working on those new solutions to help improve care in the community, launched its population health research centre at the inaugural Singapore Population Health Symposium on Friday (April 29).

It is called the SingHealth Centre for Population Health Research and Implementation.

Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary, who launched the centre virtually, said in his speech that the Ministry of Heal