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Catalyst by Wellstar

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We're designing the future of healthcare.

Personalized + Preventative

At Catalyst, we’re committed to changing the model from sick care – to peoplecare. That includes harnessing smart new technologies and always-connected networks to make care more focused on well-being through prevention and more personalized to each and every person.

Empowered Caregivers

We’re creating new ways for doctors, nurses and medical professionals to connect and care for patients beyond the traditional walls of hospitals and clinics. This includes innovating new organizational models that support delivering more diverse and distributed care to the community.

Curated Care Experiences

Recent global events have accelerated the adoption of new care experiences that bridge digital and traditional care venues. But for us, that’s only a beginning. At Catalyst, we’re inspired by the idea of curated care – the Latin root of curate being curatus, meaning to heal or cure. Working with fresh thinkers across industries, we want to create new concepts for care that are highly curated and selective to the needs of the individual.

Modernized Economic Models

As healthcare costs continue to rise, it’s critical that we modernize economic models to make quality care more accessible and affordable for more people. Subscription-based service models. Value-based service models. Innovative new service models yet to be dreamed up. For us, the future means flexibility.

Digital + Autonomous

Today’s consumers expect healthcare services to meet them where they are. At Catalyst, we see tremendous opportunity in tapping new technologies like autonomous vehicles, advanced robotics and the latest AI to help outpace consumer service expectations and deliver safe, quality care in more efficient ways.

Life-Health Integration

Going to the doctor for your annual check-up. Visiting the hospital when you’re really sick. That was yesterday. Today, healthcare is a non-linear experience. We see it as an ecosystem – one centered around the individual and designed to integrate well-being and care into everyday life. It’s this always-on, always present ecosystem of care that we’re passionately working to create.

Our process for disruption

  1. Source Needs + Opportunities: By closely listening to consumers, communities and healthcare professionals alike, we identify needs and opportunities for positive, disruptive change that can dramatically improve the delivery and outcome of healthcare services.
  2. Identify + Create Solutions: Once the most promising opportunities for innovation are identified, we partner with the best and brightest thinkers to create solutions that deliver on that opportunity. These solutions may come from inside the healthcare industry – or from far beyond. Wherever consumer innovation is happening, we want to harness it to deliver better care.
  3. Partner + Grow: After we’ve tested and vetted a solution, we then work with partners to market and distribute that innovation to the healthcare industry locally and globally.

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