Embracing digital technology is more than improving productivity at NKF. The time saved will go towards providing higher level of patient care. The clinicians will be able to provide efficient care delivery anytime, anywhere with remote access. In addition, the digitised data will be well leveraged to provide valuable insights into our patients’ medical condition and useful for advancing renal care as well as allow for inter-agency research and collaboration.

Established in 1969, the NKF provides quality, highly subsidised treatment and holistic care to more than 3,500 dialysis patients at its 32 centres island-wide. For each dialysis treatment, nurses are required to manually record patients’ data throughout the process, which is very tedious and time-consuming.

With the implementation of the Renal Point of Care System (RPOCS), NKF has reduced its dependency on nurses to perform such administrative duties, enabling them to focus more on improving quality of patient care. This is made possible with support from WSG’s WorkPro under LEDS to help defray some of the implementation costs.

DEC 2017

CATHERINE

GOH

IT DIRECTOR

THE NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION

Kidney CareGoes Digital

Nurses are physically stretched, as the dialysis

centres operate daily from 6am to 11pm,

running at 3 shifts to provide treatments to

more than 3,500 patients.

Nurses are mentally taxed as they have to

take great care to ensure that there are no

erroneous recordings.

Recording of patient data done manually by

nurses throughout treatment, includingsetting up treatment

plan, recording pre and post treatment weight,

blood pressure, machine readings etc.

Nurses are freed up from the tedious tasks,

and can now focus more on delivering quality

patient care.

Data accuracy is enhanced with no

transcription error and patients' data can be

made available with just a mouse-click.

Patients' data are now automatically captured throughout treatment

via a personalised Patient Card.

The Lean Enterprise Development (LED) Scheme supportsprogressive SMEs that want to become more manpower-lean,develop a stronger Singaporean core, and build a better qualityworkforce. View the LED Scheme video for more information.

Please approach the SME centres and/or your trade associationsif you need assistance to draft your proposal. You may submityour proposal to leds@mom.gov.sg for assessment.

The Lean Enterprise Development (LED) Scheme supportsprogressive SMEs that want to become more manpower-lean,develop a stronger Singaporean core, and build a better qualityworkforce. View the LED Scheme video for more information.

Please approach the SME centres and/or your trade associationsif you need assistance to draft your proposal. You may submityour proposal to leds@mom.gov.sg for assessment.

Manually sort andhandle the storage

of laundry

Difficulty in hiringand retaining frontline

service staff

High rentaland operating costs

Changes are the only thing that will not change. In this period where changes are a lot more rapid compared to the past, businesses need to transform and create more values to continue development. LEDS have been wonderful in helping us in our development and transformation. By sharing we hope more SMEs can benefit from these schemes and progress together to the benefits of many others.

Automated laundrytracking and sorting systemto streamline work process

OLLO mobile appfor customers to track

their laundry

OLLO, an automatedlaundry kiosk to provide 24/7self-service laundry services

Incorporated in 1987, Zero Spot Laundry Service is a professional laundry service provider offering large-scale laundry solutions to hotels, hospitals and serviced apartments in Singapore and Asia.

Manpower availability and costs are huge barriers in operating a profitable and scalable B2C laundry business. With support from SPRING's Capability Development Grant (CDG), Zero Spot created OLLO, a 24/7 self-service and automated laundry kiosk, to provide faster, better and easier laundry services for the public.

DEC 2017

Zero-ing In

ALEX TEOCEO OF ZERO SPOT SERVICES

On A Fast & Easy Service!