Health x Wellness
HealthHub Portal To Offer Access To Health Services
HealthHub aims to solicit user feedback to build a digital companion for healthy living for Singaporeans.
HealthHub, Singapore’s first one-stop online health information and services portal and mobile application was recently unveiled at the Health Promotion Board’s Healthy Lifestyle Festival SG roadshow. An initiative by the Ministry of Health and the Health Promotion Board, HealthHub contains localised and citizen-centric content to provide Singaporeans with easy access to information and services to increase health literacy, encourage the adoption of healthy habits and to nudge Singaporeans to take greater ownership of their own health and wellness. Users can check their key medical records and appointments from public healthcare institutions. This early release is designed to solicit user feedback, so that the portal and mobile application can be enhanced. With user inputs, HealthHub can develop into a “must-have” digital companion for healthy living for Singaporeans. It will provide easy access to reliable health-related content, key medical records and e-services.
HealthHub Features
Through HealthHub at www.healthhub.sg, Singaporeans can access a select range of useful health information and services. Some of these include general health and wellness content that takes into account the Singapore lifestyle and healthcare trends here. The content spans a myriad of topics, including chronic diseases, mental wellbeing, nutrition and physical activity. Another service provided on HealthHub is the availability of health records of users. With a SingPass login, parents will be able to view their children’s health records, such as immunisation records, dental health records and referral letters. It also provides patient information, such as hospital discharge summary, lab test results (chronic diseases), screening records and future medical appointments.
HealthHub also features various deals made possible through partnerships with healthcare, wellness, recreation, fitness and food and beverage establishments. Users will also be able to earn and accumulate reward points – Healthpoints – when they share health articles or events read on HealthHub on social media platforms. This encourages individuals to pass on useful health and wellness information to their family and friends. Healthpoints can be converted into rewards such as NTUC LinkPoints, which can be used to offset grocery bills, redeem vouchers and other deals offered by participating partners.
Additionally, HealthHub provides an extensive directory of healthcare and lifestyle facilities and services available islandwide. This will allow users to locate the nearest and most appropriate facility for their medical and lifestyle needs, including the locations of polyclinics, healthier eateries and sports facilities.
HealthHub will be built in phases, and continuously enhanced over the next few years to ultimately feature even more information and services such as the payment of medical fees; patient medication list to help patients and caregivers keep track of the medication the patient is on; and allowing parents to print their children’s immunisation history.
The mobile application can be downloaded for free from the Apple App store and Google Play Store.
