Vensa’s global medical advisor and disruptive innovation in healthcare expert visits NZ

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Earlier this month, Vensa welcomed to New Zealand their global medical advisor Jason Hwang. The California-based Hwang is the co-author of the global best-selling book, The Innovator’s Prescription.

In the book, Hwang and Clay Christensen exhaustively examine the challenges facing healthcare today and propose a set of clear, innovative and actionable solutions that will both reduce the cost of healthcare and lead to improved health outcomes for millions.

During his visit, Hwang met with numerous Vensa customers and stakeholders from across the primary care sector. These included meetings with Procare Health Limited and Pegasus Health, the two largest PHOs in the country. He showcased disruptive innovations in healthcare systems around the world and the Precision Driven Health funded research programmes underway at Vensa geared towards making healthcare affordable and accessible.

As part of Vensa’s ongoing awareness outreach, an exclusive invite-only event was held at the Vensa office, headed by Hwang. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Waitematā District Health Board, Omni Health, Green Cross Health, ACC and several GP practices.

The last leg of Hwang’s visit involved a presentation on The global trends for disruptive innovations in healthcare at the General Practice Conference and Medical Exhibition in Rotorua.

The message from Hwang for the New Zealand primary care sector was heavily focused on implementing disruptive models of care, targeted at smaller sections of the population to begin with.

“Decentralisation is driven by disruptive innovations that offer greater access and affordability to new markets that are not consuming health today. New Zealand has almost 30 per cent of Kiwis having an unmet need to get primary care service within 48 hours,” according to Hwang.

Disruption in business models has been the dominant historical mechanism for making things more affordable and accessible, and for generating corporate and economic growth.

“Finding the pockets of non-consumption is the goal of disruptive business models. The minute clinic is an example of this in the US, where they service non-consuming health users. The key message is to introduce disruptive business models with the current capitation model to ensure continuity of care,” he said.

Hwang is also one of the principal investigators for Vensa’s research partnership with Precision Driven Health, a Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment scheme designed to stimulate innovation in health data science.

Vensa currently has multiple projects in the research and development phase, focused on specific workflows, e.g., automating lab results dissemination, interpretation as well as patient self-triage to name a few.

Vensa Health, is a leading New Zealand digital health company, with a vision to make primary healthcare more accessible, affordable and convenient via its vensa.com  platform, offering a new delivery model for healthcare. Vensa’s technology has enabled over 3 million New Zealanders timely access to primary care services through their family doctors, which prompt key health outcomes downstream.

Vensa Health has published their bold 10-year vision titled #VisionVensa in 2018. The company is committed to shifting the dial around the digitisation of General Practice workflows, optimising for more clinical time, and capturing revenue. The company is building a clever workflow platform which will sit atop any PMS in NZ, in what is predicted to be an increasingly fragmented PMS space.

Source: Vensa Health, 3 July 2019

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