Valérie Brasseur’s Post

🌟 With Halifax serving as the final stop of the 2024 Public Sector Network Canada Roadshow, the spotlight on the province’s steadfast investment in their people, systems, and programs to support patient access to care initiatives resonated strongly.    Members of the Petal Health team were delighted to engage in discussion regarding the province’s vision and share their expertise and experience on addressing some of healthcare’s greatest challenges.    🔐 Key highlights included: ➡ Elliot Desilets, Director of Business Development, sharing Petal’s implementation of a provincial initiative aimed at optimizing access to care to all citizens. This real-world case demonstrated the streamlining of the patient journey and improving of the alignment between healthcare supply and patient demand in real-time.    ➡ Maude-Andrée D'Amours, Jef Desourdy and Dan Lynch leading an interactive roundtable with stakeholders from across Atlantic Canada. Together they explored the various bottlenecks encountered throughout the patient journey and identified opportunities where technology could enhance and support the existing digital health infrastructure.    🤝 Nova Scotia's pivotal role in digital health innovation is clear, and Petal Health is proud to collaborate on this journey. Together, let's continue to innovate and improve the patient experience, ensuring timely and effective care for all. #PetalHealth #DigitalInnovation #NovaScotia 

In 2015, at age 22, I began my career as a health tech entrepreneur by living in 3 nursing homes for a year, developing a product to enhance residents’ quality of life. Today, I am dedicated to ensuring individuals prevent chronic disease and prolong their healthspans for as long as possible. Here’s why my co-founders Mike Goss, CFA, Saif Uddin Mahmud and I are building NiaHealth, a digital-first proactive healthcare platform built in Canada. In an era where we enjoy rapid, high-quality services at increasingly affordable rates across almost every facet of life, healthcare remains a glaring exception. Our healthcare system faces escalating disease rates, soaring costs, and limited accessibility, highlighting an urgent demand for proactive, preventative care solutions. Recognizing the critical need for change, we drew inspiration from Peter Attia’s book "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity" and other thought leaders such as Mark Hyman, Andrew Huberman, etc.. This resonated deeply with our vision, prompting the birth of NiaHealth. Named after Sardinia, a renowned Blue Zone synonymous with longevity—a subject I had previously studied—our platform is dedicated to empowering individuals through accessible, proactive health management. At NiaHealth, we offer convenient home or office blood draws, analysis of up to 50+ healthspan-related biomarkers, and personalized health reports with actionable insights. What sets us apart is our commitment to a seamless user experience, oversight by health experts, and tailored concierge services. In addition, we provide other diagnostics such as VO2 max tests and DEXA scans, ensuring comprehensive insights into health and fitness levels. We are just beginning our journey at NiaHealth, driven by a shared commitment to elevate health for humanity. #proactivemedicine #healthspan #longevity #healthtech

📍 Tackling unique challenges in remote locations? Check out this intriguing Medcor Canada case study that explores innovative solutions for onsite health clinics under demanding conditions. Discover how adaptability and creativity can overcome geographical and logistical obstacles. 🌍🛠️ #RemoteSolutions - Read the case study: https://t.ly/_KWkf

The cultural heritage of Canada's Indigenous communities is profound and significant. However, these communities face unique healthcare challenges due to historical inequalities and geographical isolation. Acknowledging this, both the Government of Canada and the Canadian Medical Association have stressed the importance of developing healthcare solutions that are equitable, respect Indigenous cultures, and tackle these long-standing disparities. In this context, rapid testing is being recognized as a key tool in making healthcare more accessible and effective for Indigenous populations across Canada. Explore further:

As a co-founder of a health-tech company in Canada, I'm driven by a simple yet powerful belief: optimal health shouldn't be a privilege—it should be accessible to all Canadians. Our initial vision for NiaHealth was to offer an alternative to the traditional executive health assessments. We wanted to streamline the diagnostic process, cut through the noise of unnecessary tests, and bring down costs. To our surprise, we’ve found that about 10% of our clients had previously used executive health services and discovered that our approach isn’t just comparable—it’s often a superior, more insightful, and cost-effective solution. This realization led us to explore why there was such a significant gap between conventional executive health services and what we offer. What we found was eye-opening. At NiaHealth, we focus on evidence-based diagnostics like blood tests, VO2 max assessments, and DEXA scans to provide comprehensive, tailored insights into your health. Our services are rooted in the latest scientific research, ensuring that we offer more accurate and actionable information than traditional methods. And we do all this with a commitment to convenience, offering services that you can access from the comfort of your home or office. The traditional executive health model in Canada has long combined basic primary care with high-cost, specialized assessments, often resulting in minimal health benefits for a high price. At NiaHealth, we challenge this outdated model by offering a personalized, proactive healthcare experience that’s both accessible and inclusive. We’re on an exciting journey as we work to redefine healthcare for all Canadians, making it truly accessible for everyone. #proactivehealth #healthtech #healthcareforall

WELL is pleased to announce the creation of a dedicated public sector group to help public health systems and related large enterprises operating at scale with technology enablement. The objective of this group is to combine and deliver product offerings specifically suited for the public sector's unique scale and requirements. WELL's public sector offerings leverage WELL's operating strengths, which include Canada's leading provider-centric technology platform and the largest network of outpatient clinics in Canada. The public sector, both at the federal and provincial levels, has been increasingly focused on helping digitize our health system, as evidenced by Ottawa's recent 46.2 billion dollar commitment, where a "modernized health system" is one of the four key investment pillars. WELL has named Shane Sabatino, WELL's CPO, as Head of Public Sector Partnerships, who will closely work with WELL's COO, Amir Javidan, who oversees the public sector division, to deliver for public health authorities. To learn more about this announcement and WELL's approach to public sector projects, please read our latest PR. https://ow.ly/xzZU50QyNll #TSX #WELLHealth #WELLHealthTechnologies

Modernizing our primary care system can increase access to care and improve health outcomes. However, while our health systems are facing pressure to innovate and find more cost-effective solutions, Canadian innovators face significant barriers to health system integration for their proven solutions. Health Cities' initiatives in primary care are addressing these challenges. Projects like the Home Health Monitoring Program have improved patient outcomes and enhances overall quality of life for Albertans; and the Data Warehouse initiative is improving capacity for social service organizations to use the collective power of the information to better understand the populations they serve. Gain a deeper understanding of these initiatives and their capacity to modernize primary care ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e-BwF479 PolicyWise for Children & Families City of Edmonton Jodi Thesenvitz Camrose Primary Care Network Alberta Health Services Lana Solberg Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Alberta Innovates TELUS Health | TELUS Santé Government of Alberta #ABhealth #healthtech #healthcare #innovation

On behalf of @canadian institute for health information, I’m greatly looking forward to this and adding to the rich discussions on a shared vision for genuine person-centric healthcare in Canada.  If you’re a clinician, patient, caregiver or involved in healthcare, I encourage you to register for this event. #HealthcareInnovation #PRFHSummit #CIHI #DigitalHealth #HealthLeadership #CanadaHealth #HealthcareSummit 

Last week, Roche Canada had an opportunity to meet with Päivi Sillanaukee, Special Envoy for the Minister of Health in Finland and with Abhinav Kalra, Executive Vice President of Connected Care at Canada Health Infoway to learn, share and discuss the importance of integrated health data access & exchange to enable personalized healthcare and improved health outcomes globally. We learned that the Finnish government has a Health Sector Growth Strategy that is enabled by a national data-based innovation ecosystem that is supported across the Ministries of Social Affairs and Health, Economic Affairs and Employment, and Education and Culture, Business Finland and the Academy of Finland. There is inter-sectoral political commitment for Finland to be an international hub for high-quality scientific research and innovation, a global partner in public-private collaborations, an attractive country for health sector investment and a model country for sustainable and personalized healthcare. In Canada, through the work led by Canada Health Infoway, supported by Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and in collaboration with our Federal-Provincial-Territorial and industry stakeholders, we have started our journey to set health data standards for digital health to advance our data-enabled connected care journey for our different health systems to a common and connected approach to enable better healthcare decisions and outcomes by 2030. A great first step is that 90% of Canadians want access to their own health data electronically so they can make better informed decisions on their health. The opportunity is that we currently only use one-tenth of the data we collect for decisions on healthcare, and only one-third of Canadians have access to their own health data. There’s an opportunity for us to learn from Finland’s journey to enable Canada to also become an attractive country for health sector investment in innovation to benefit the health of Canadians and the economy. We look forward to continuing and broadening the conversation with others. #healthdata #connectedcare #personalizedhealthcare #valuerecognition #healthinnovation #crossbordercollaboration #publicprivatepartnerships Lisa Chartrand Rishma Abdulhusein Roger Tam Lisa Slater (Hunt) Nora Kaarela Anna Manner-Raappana

"Greenstar is honoured to attend the International Conference on Sustainable Health Systems & Resilience: Challenges and opportunities - Transforming Health Systems through Partnerships, Organized by Manhattan Strategy Group, USA. In his opening remarks, Dr. Malik Mukhtar Ahmed Bharath, Coordinator for Health to the Prime Minister, emphasized the critical need for a coordinated approach among all stakeholders to improve the healthcare system. He highlighted that the theme of the conference aligns with this collective effort. A particularly thought-provoking panel discussion on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) was moderated by Dr Syed Aziz Rab, CEO of Greenstar Social Marketing Pakistan. The panel included distinguished experts such as Dr.Shahzad Ali Khan , Vice Chancellor of the Health Services Academy ; Dr.Talib Lashari , Focal Person for FP2030 and Technical Advisor, Head of the CIP Cell at the Population Welfare Department, Government of Sindh; and Dr.Syed Shah Miran, CEO of MERF - Medical Emergency Resilience Foundation.   The conversation highlighted role of PPP in strengthening the healthcare system. Dr. Aziz gave background for the need of PPP. He said an estimated 70% population pays for the health through out-of-pocket expenses and seek services from the private sector. Government sector has various constraints and cannot fulfil health needs of the whole country. Private sector works as an extended arm of the government providing support where needed. Government can take advantage of the health eco system of the private sector comprising of GPs, mid-level providers, traditional healers, chemists and retailers. Dr. Shahzad emphasized role of the private sector contributing 70% to the system and how academia, public and private sector can come together to formulate evidence based policies for PPP initiatives. Dr. Talib shared that 54% of Family Planning services are provided by the private sector (PDHS), supporting the government and mentioned success of PPP models in Sindh. Dr. Shah Miran shared valuable insights on the cost-effectiveness of PPP initiatives, need for improvement of the model for better productivity, particularly in hard to reach and rural areas.   Greenstar looks forward to exploring these partnerships to bring resilient and comprehensive healthcare solutions. #healthcare #publicprivatepartnerships #PPP #GreenstarSocialMarketing #Pakistan #collaboration #FP2030 #resilienthealthcare #MinistryOfNationalHealthServices #ManhattanStrategyGroup