Singapore, June 9 -- The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has formalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) establishing a strategic academic-clinical partnership focused on healthy ageing, functional mobility, and community-based musculoskeletal research.

At the centre of this partnership is the JointCare programme, an AI-enabled initiative that integrates orthopaedic expertise, biomedical engineering, and population health approaches to improve the early detection, risk stratification, and right-siting of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in community settings.

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