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Most popular stories, November 2025

Oleh Sol Gonzalez

This month we delve into stories on healthcare innovation and public sector IT in Singapore.

Most popular stories, November 2025.

As we approach the end of the year, we bring you the top reads for November.


Healthcare took the focus of our readers for this month: from new healthtech standards to scaling healthcare innovations to meet the needs of an ageing population.


Public sector IT was also in the centre of attention: we covered how GovTech Singapore's StackOps solution helps government agencies to enhance observability, and how prompting competitions can unlock AI literacy in the sector.


Enjoy reading!


1. Singapore’s healthcare sector boosts interoperability by releasing two new healthtech standards

The national healthtech agency Synapxe is implementing the new standards in its HealthX Innovation Sandbox, enabling innovators to test how their digital health solutions connect with electronic medical records. Click image to access article >>>

Singapore’s national healthtech agency, Synapxe has released two new national standards designed to improve technology and data interoperability across the healthcare sector.


Synapxe’s Director of Innovation and Capabilities Enablement (ICE), Henry Kang, said in an official release that by implementing the standards in the sandbox, the agency would "provide the necessary resources for our startups and innovators in the HealthTech ecosystem to build their solutions faster in an interoperable manner.”


2. How GovTech Singapore’s StackOps enhances observability in public sector IT

For IT leaders, security teams, and developers responsible for citizen-facing services, this solution empowers them with a single, streamlined observability platform that ensures reliable government services. Click image to access article >>>

The ability to share observability data across teams is key for quick identification and addressing of potential faults and root cause analysis, especially with increasingly interdependent applications and systems.


GovTech Singapore's StackOps was tailored for Whole-of-Government deployment to improve visualisation across applications and infrastructure.


Prior to StackOps, fragmented monitoring tools and a lack of monitoring data standards across government systems were the cause of several challenges, says Director of Core Engineering Products at GovTech, Hsiao Ming Chia.


3. As Singapore ages, how can public healthcare innovations be scaled for lasting impact?

To succeed, digital enablers that tackle the demands of ageing need to be evidence-informed and evidence-tested, addressing the human factors surrounding their implementation in our health systems. Click image to access article >>>

The success of healthcare innovations hinges on their implementation, fundamentally dependent on how users interact with such tech, interpret their results and harness their value.


In this guest column, Woan Shin Tan , Deputy Executive Director of the Geriatric Education & Research Institute (GERI), a national research institute under MOH, shared that as we live longer lives, ensuring our digital enablers “age well” in our health systems matters as much as creating them.


4. Health on the fast-track: How HealthTech is innovating and scaling securely

Combining sandboxing with secure cloud infrastructure can help accelerate HealthTech innovations in the public healthcare sector, say AWS, Synapxe and public healthcare professionals. Click image to access article >>>

The Sandbox 2.0 is the latest development in a longstanding collaboration between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Synapxe to enable innovations across Singapore’s healthcare sector, said Ms Elsie Tan, AWS’s Worldwide Public Sector Country Manager for Singapore.


The initiative allows public healthcare institutions and industry technology organisations to experiment and scale their innovation projects within a secure production environment on the Healthcare Commercial Cloud (HCC) — a specialised cloud environment designed for healthcare applications — built on AWS.


5. Can a prompting competition unlock public sector AI literacy? GovTech shows how

Prompt Royale, Singapore’s largest public sector prompt engineering competition, engaged over 2,500 officers experiment with a wider range of the government AI products. Click image to access article >>>

Prompt Royale is Singapore’s largest whole-of-government prompt engineering competition designed to upskill public officers in using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for their work. 


In its third edition this year, participants learnt to use a low-code, no-code builder, Lovable, as well as Google’s AI image and video generation tool, Flow. 


The finalists had no technical backgrounds in AI coding or engineering, and came from the Housing Development Board (HDB), Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and the Ministry of Education (MOE).