Dental Asia November/December 2023
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
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Can AI help<br />
a nation<br />
prevent<br />
oral health<br />
disease?<br />
(Image: NUHS)<br />
At the National University Health System (NUHS), a supercomputer has been<br />
added to the healthcare cluster’s arsenal, where it is currently processing<br />
and computing data at breakneck speeds to train machine learning models<br />
(MLMs) to advance healthcare practices for its patients. <strong>Dental</strong> <strong>Asia</strong> speaks<br />
to Dr Wilson Lu and Dr Mohammad Shaheryar Furqan to learn more on<br />
the supercomputer’s technology, projects, and its potential to prevent dental<br />
diseases throughout a nation.<br />
By James Yau<br />
As one of three national healthcare clusters<br />
in Singapore, NUHS manages public<br />
healthcare for approximately one million<br />
residents in the Western region of the<br />
country through its network including four<br />
hospitals, three specialty centres, seven<br />
polyclinics and more supporting institutions.<br />
NUHS announced on 17 Aug the launch<br />
of what is said to be Singapore’s first<br />
supercomputer devoted to medical research<br />
— PRESCIENCE — where it aims to bring<br />
this quality of foreknowledge to its patients<br />
with AI.<br />
Fully operation since 31 Jul, PRESCIENCE<br />
represents a new dawn for healthcare at NUHS<br />
with several of its initiatives expected to be<br />
gradually rolled out by the end of <strong>2023</strong> to<br />
support its staff.<br />
The ability of AI-based technologies to swiftly<br />
process and analyse complex data from the<br />
sector is invaluable. One such AI application<br />
is NUHS’ own version of a learning language<br />
model, the NUHS RUSSELL-GPT. It aims to<br />
boost productivity of healthcare professionals<br />
and improve patient care, by summarising<br />
patient case notes and writing referral letters<br />
for doctors in a few seconds. The RUSSELL-<br />
GPT also allows NUHS staff to ask questions<br />
on topics like medical conditions and medical<br />
protocols, to aid them in their work.<br />
“The PRESCIENCE supercomputer was<br />
conceived to provide dedicated highperformance<br />
computing to process sensitive<br />
medical data at NUHS. It has enabled<br />
researchers to train large AI models without<br />
the overheads of pre-processing medical data,<br />
and to build more accurate models quickly,”<br />
said group CTO of NUHS, associate professor<br />
Ngiam Kee Yuan. “The decision to build this<br />
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