How New Zealand’s Whakarongorau Aotearoa is improving equity in healthcare
CEO Andrew Slater describes how the telehealth company has scaled up to meet unprecedented demand while staying true to its mission.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, its extensive impact on healthcare is altering the very nature of health systems worldwide. What’s changing? Existing trends, which formerly grew incrementally—such as telemedicine and data-driven models—have accelerated substantially, resulting in a sooner-than-expected arrival of tomorrow’s healthcare ecosystem.
COVID-19 is rewriting the rules so quickly that in order for health organisations to thrive in this interconnected network—what we call the New Health Economy—each must adapt and develop a new strategic identity for the future. The task to repair, rethink and reconfigure models will help players emerge stronger from crisis—and deliver healthcare, reinvented.
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Accelerating the health economy of tomorrow
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the New Health Economy and transformations across the health system.
The pandemic is accelerating the New Health Economy
The elements of the NHE have been building toward a more interconnected health ecosystem. But the pandemic has increased the speed of the transformation.
Source: PwC Health Research Institute analysis of COVID-19 accelerators of the New Health Economy ecosystem, which was first published in Surviving seismic change: Winning a piece of the $5 trillion US health ecosystem, PwC’s Health Research Institute, Sept. 2016
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely accelerate…
A host of health services previously conducted in person have shifted into digital spaces. Technologies such as video healthcare visits, at-home diagnostics and wearable monitors will continue to expand; R&D and clinical trials are already going virtual; and various members of the workforce remain remote. Such virtualisation will move patients from irregular healthcare interactions to a continuous model of care.
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