Photo: Marco VDM/Peopleimages.com via Getty Images
The Singaporean Ministry of Health has tapped Australian company Beamtree to audit clinical coding and documentation quality across 20 public and private hospitals in Singapore.
The A$1 million (over $650,000) contract was recently awarded to the ASX-listed firm, which provides AI-powered decision support and data insights solutions for the healthcare sector.
Based on a corporate disclosure, the comprehensive audit aims to identify the levels of data quality and management at those unnamed hospitals, which will inform recommendations for software solutions to improve and maintain health data quality.
Beamtree will utilise its coding quality and benchmarking software to conduct the audit, including both Performance Indicators for Coding Quality and Relative Indicators for Safety and Quality. These platforms, it said, enable benchmarking, error categorisation, and targeted education recommendations.
This project is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2026.
THE LARGER CONTEXT
Singapore is undergoing a major healthcare reform that emphasises data-driven, proactive, personalised, and preventive care at the community level. A national EHR system underpins this national reform, and ensuring high-quality, standardised data is critical to meet its grand objectives.
Beamtree has helped deliver the same clinical data and documentation audit in Australia, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Canada. Over the past two years, it has been working with both public and private healthcare sectors in Saudi Arabia to implement an integrated coding platform and enhance clinical coding across health services.
