By Nauman Jaffar
Technology is enabling everything and I have been thinking about helping make a difference outside our mediocre, day to day, money oriented life. My recent course at HBS and experiencing the power and impact of Uber is like an epiphany. There were lessons on learning on how to leverage the market of capital for innovation and growth to build new ideas that can help make a difference.
The health care system in Canada and in most of the world is a disaster waiting to happen – it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better” I see progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate medical and tech experts working together. My vision is attacking Health by using Technology (hence the name Health-a-tech). It will be York region-based social collaboration that will host weekend brainstorming sessions, or “Healthatechs,” with the goal to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives.
The end game is to transform health care with more and better collaboration.
It will be a not-for-profit work: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a Healthatech. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with application and software developers who are eager to break through the industry morass—resulting, for example, in a simulation game for autistic children that teaches them skills to deal with their daily routines. We will start small in a local library and potentially grow bigger if we are able to gain momentum in future.
I hope to touch a nerve, and unfold something powerful in Canada that can be replicated just as strongly around the world.
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