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Clinical Innovation

Healthcare is evolving rapidly. 

At Bupa, Clinical Innovation brings together clinicians, healthcare leaders, researchers, data specialists and technology experts to explore new ways of improving health outcomes and healthcare experiences. From genomics and artificial intelligence to digital health, care model redesign and clinician engagement, our focus is on translating innovation into practical solutions that make a meaningful difference in everyday healthcare.

Driven by evidence and informed by frontline healthcare experience, we're exploring how emerging technologies, new models of care and cross-functional collaboration can improve outcomes and enhance experiences across healthcare. Whether it's helping clinicians spend more time with patients, enabling more personalised care, improving access through digital health or creating more connected healthcare journeys, our focus is on solving real challenges for healthier, happier, longer lives. 

AI and Digital Health

Innovation should make healthcare work better for both patients and clinicians. Our teams are exploring how artificial intelligence and digital technologies can reduce administrative burden, improve access to care and create more connected healthcare experiences.

Current initiatives include:

  • DARCI, Bupa's customer-facing AI capability within Telehealth
  • Scaling Lyrebird AI Scribe across Bupa Medical and BVAC following a successful Dental pilot
  • Exploring AI-enabled workflows that support documentation, referrals and information management
  • Converting clinical data into FHIR standards to enable automated patient summaries and medical record chatbot functionality

Importantly, these solutions are developed with clinicians, not just for clinicians. 

Listen to The Care Blueprint, Episode 7, "Can we trust AI with our health?"

Genetic Counsellors and Genomics

Genomics is helping transform healthcare from a reactive model to one that is increasingly personalised and preventative.

Our genomics initiatives focus on translating advances in genomic science into practical healthcare applications, helping people better understand their health risks and supporting clinicians to make more informed decisions.

This includes pharmacogenomic testing, which provides insight into how an individual's genetic profile may influence their response to medications, helping support more personalised treatment decisions.

By combining clinical expertise, scientific research and digital innovation, we're helping make personalised medicine more accessible and relevant to everyday healthcare.

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Innovation is more than just tech and AI. The core of innovation for me is finding something that you don't like in your workflow, in your day-to-day life, and then actually thinking about a different way to do things.

Dr Janice tan

general manager, clinical innovation

Connection

Healthcare can be complex, with patients often moving between multiple providers and services. Through digital solutions, connected care pathways and new models of care, we're working to reduce fragmentation and make healthcare easier to navigate for both patients and clinicians.

Prevention

We're helping shift healthcare beyond treating illness towards earlier intervention, prevention and long-term health management through solutions that support risk identification, chronic disease care, personalised prevention and more proactive health outcomes.

Partnerships

Innovation thrives through collaboration. We partner with healthcare providers, researchers, technology organisations and professional bodies to advance digital health, support clinician capability and shape future models of care, helping drive innovation across the healthcare sector.

This is a place where clinicians don't just deliver care, they help redesign it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Clinical Innovation at Bupa is about more than technology. It's about bringing together people with different expertise, perspectives and experiences to solve real healthcare challenges. From AI and genomics to prevention, connected care and new models of healthcare delivery, our teams are helping shape how healthcare evolves for the future.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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