Dr. James Yip

Graduated from National University of Singapore in 1991 and trained in Cardiology at the National University Hospital, Singapore. Dr. James Yip was a clinical fellow in Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults in 2001. He developed the Cardiology Information System which is in use in 3 public hospitals in Singapore. For this work and in closed loop medication management systems (CLMMS), he has won for NUH the National Infocomm awards for best use for infocomm technology in the public sector in 2004 and 2010. In 2012 and 2018, he was part of the team award for the National Medical Excellance award (NMEA) for CLMMS and Value driven Outcomes (VDO). He is also the individual recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Clinical Quality Activist for NMEA. He currently serves as the Group Chief Medical Information Officer of NUHS and is the Chief Data Advisor of the Ministry of Health. He has special interests in the area of Telemedicine and Population Analytics.

Session Panellist for:

The advantages and disadvantages of NGEMR implementation and an introduction to Value Driven Outcome (VDO) under Site visit to National University Hospital