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Singapore’s National University Hospital is comparing an in-house clinical tool with a government-built service as it expands speech-to-text use. The potential capacity gain is meaningful, but wider deployment depends on accuracy, reusable time and the full cost of adoption.

Connecting health and civil registration systems could streamline documents for 4.8 million births a year, while creating a large integration market and demanding rigorous controls for data errors, consent and exceptional cases.