The innovative new platform invites Canadians to help solve some of the country’s biggest health challenges.
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Innovative thinking doesn’t just come from scientists or business leaders. To help solve big problems that affect diverse communities, you need community-driven innovation. That is the guiding principle of Flying with Roche. By elevating, redefining and looking more holistically at healthcare, Soaring with Roche will employ an equitable and human-centered approach to problem solving within the healthcare system. Roche Canada’s project leads Dvorah Richler and Michael Duong, who have led a number of collaborative health initiatives, explain how the platform will work, and share the five biggest health challenges the community has identified.
Roche Canada’s project is led by Michael Duong and Dvorah Richler
What is Soaring with Roche?
MICHAEL DUONG: Flying with Roche is an initiative, a movement, a desire to make changes so that the system works better for patients. It is an opportunity, it is a platform, it is hope and effort, with diverse people coming together.
DORAH RICHLER: We started by asking people in Canada and around the world: “What are the biggest challenges in the healthcare system?” We started some great conversations, involving a cross-section of people, allowing people affected by health issues to share their challenges with us. Now we will take those challenges and solve them through collaborations with individuals, organizations, innovators and governments.
What are the five health challenges you have identified?
DR:Aging mightily encourages us to start thinking about prevention. Just because you’re getting older doesn’t mean you have to get sick. Health justice it’s about making sure everyone in Canada has an equal chance to be healthy, because health is a fundamental human right. Waiting for medical attention It involves creating efficiencies to generate an on-demand system in which people receive medical care in the right place, at the right time. Healthy literature it’s about helping people understand their health and health data, and showing them how to navigate the healthcare system to get the most out of it. AND Share data it is that underlying enabler that will gather all the information. What we have discovered is how interdependent our five challenges are: the success of one can lead to the success of another.
Who are the participants?
DR: There are many industries and sectors that we hope to bring together, different actors who may not have thought of getting involved in health care reform before. Yes, there are scientists, researchers, academics, government agencies, and hospitals, but we also have patients and community members who want to see change. We want industries like finance and telecommunications to join. The health challenges we are addressing are not new. Part of the reason they haven’t been resolved is that it’s always the same people looking at them, doing things the same way, in silos.
Maryland: Our goal is not only to bring the community together, but also to integrate all the layers, making all the different sectors work together to solve the different pieces of the puzzle. You cannot solve the problems by yourself. You have to trust your community, you have to reach out.
When will you start to see real results?
DR: This is a long-term project involving policy change and the modernization of our healthcare system, and they are not simple or easy. We look at 2030 to 2035 as our window of change. Smaller milestones and short-term experiments will help us learn and grow. Then we continue to build momentum, so that the result is the best possible healthcare system.
Maryland: Flying with Roche is not just about the monumental goals that we as a community have set for ourselves, it is also about all the progress we need to make to achieve those goals. So even if it takes us more than a few years to get to the final destination, we hope that there will be many real results, such as progress and intangible learnings, from the beginning and throughout the journey.
Participation in Soaring with Roche is open to anyone interested in contributing to change in healthcare. Visit SoaringWithRoche.ca to join the movement and stay connected.
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