Chai Chuah author

Chai 。仁材 Chuah 蔡 is the founder of Health System Transformation Limited. A New Zealand Company, he started after he finished up as the Director-General of Health and Chief Executive of the New Zealand Ministry of Health on February 2018. He is the first Asian to be appointed as Chief Executive in the New Zealand public service. His previous roles included the National Director of the National Health Board, Chief Executive of a District Health Board, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Manager in public health institutions in New Zealand His focus is currently writing, speaking, sharing, and advising on: 1. future of healthcare 2. leaders we need 3. better care for our seniors (elderly) He currently also provides mentoring and coaching for up and coming leaders, especially in healthcare. In his free time, he enjoys travelling with his wife, spending time with his adult children, and a brand new granddaughter. He also enjoys pottering around his garden and developing hs newfound hobby of drawing

Business Development, COVID-19, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Strategy
COVID 19 – Easing up on lockdown measures. Are we there yet?
Chai Chuah Apr 14, 2020

COVID 19 a global pandemic On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID 19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. By

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Healthcare, Learning - Topics, Opinion, Science and Technology
AI in Healthcare – The Inconvenient Truth
Chai Chuah Dec 20, 2019

In the 21st Century, the age of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), each healthcare organisation has built its own data infrastructure to support its

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Business Development, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Strategy
The Future of Healthcare – How ready is your organisation?
Chai Chuah Dec 5, 2019

I wanted to share two recent great examples of embracing the future. When I read about these two examples, the thought coming into my head

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Aged Care, Healthcare, IT, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Policy, Science and Technology
Influence of Exponential Technology in Healthcare
Chai Chuah Dec 4, 2019

Let’s unpack this. The common example used to explain this term and its impact is the story of a game of chess involving an Indian

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Business Development, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Policy, Strategy
Healhcare Innovation Strategies – Understanding the difference between sustaining and disruptive
Chai Chuah Nov 28, 2019

Following on from my earlier article “Getting serious about making changes in health care?” I want to highlight the importance of understanding the difference between

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Business Development, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Strategy
Getting serious about making changes in health care?
Chai Chuah Nov 26, 2019

Pressures in First World countries health care system are relentless and increasingly feel insurmountable. Layers of initiatives and services crisscross each other like the picture

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Customer Experience, Customer Experience, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics
Healthcare Providers’ May Have the Power to Influence How Patients Perceive the Effectiveness of a Treatment
Chai Chuah Nov 14, 2019

If a doctor expects a treatment to be successful, a patient may experience less pain and have better outcomes, according to a new Dartmouth study

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Business Development, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Science and Technology
Why is Healthcare Suddenly of Interest to Tech Giants? (Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent and Samsung)
Chai Chuah Nov 11, 2019

Towards the end of the 20th century tech giants such as IBM and Microsoft invested in healthcare with mixed success. In the first decade of

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Business Development, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Strategy
FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE – What will it look like?
Chai Chuah Nov 4, 2019

Health and well-being of people are determined by many factors – genes, culture, living conditions and social determinants. Social determinants influence and are influenced by

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Business Development, Healthcare, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics, Strategy
Social Determinants – the KEY to solving current pressures on Health Systems
Chai Chuah Oct 25, 2019

Standardization, personalization, and digitalization This article co-authored by Michael T. Modic MD, and Luis Lasalvia, MD, MIB, makes an essential point that healthcare can learn

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