The story for Suvera all began with a simple question? Why do people struggle to take their medications?
As part of a project at medical school, I wanted to understand why instructions for taking medications that came with prescriptions were so inaccessible. I didn’t think it was the sole reason people struggle to take their medications, but I did think it a major contributor.
By the end of my research, I was shocked. I learned how poorly patients were supported by the healthcare system in order to learn about their medications. In my mind it was clear - something better could be, and needed to be done.
With this problem at the front of my mind, I joined a university startup accelerator called Kickstart London with my Will (now co-founder at Suvera). Within 10 weeks, we’d designed an application we hoped would provide easy access to useful information about medication. Having done that, we soon found out that information about medications wasn’t actually a priority to users.
Using the privilege handed to us as medical students, we spent months speaking to around 100 patients about our designs. But what we really wanted to know was their own individual experiences, frustrations and hopes. With much attention, it become clear from our conversations that access to quality and simple medication information was useful - but not a pain.
A more pressing concern for patients was the burden of managing their conditions on a day-to-day basis. Every patient had a version of similarly primitive ways of managing their condition. Fundamentally, there was no accessible, reliable or consistent support for people with managing mutiple medications/treatments.
We had to fix this. Better management of long-term conditions is arguably one of the most aspects of the healthcare system. These people make up over 70% of the costs, and 80% of the resources for the healthcare system
Soon enough we managed to recruit Ryzard as our third co-founder, to lead design and experience at Suvera. We took on investment, and began to build a team to work to rethink what condition management looks like within healthcare.
We began to imagine, what if? What if everyone were empowered to manage their condition whererever they were in the world, by a super specialised and focused healthcare team powered and enabled by technology
In a world where we are it is easier to learn, date, finance and travel why is managing our health conditions so hard.
Our mission at Suvera is keep people in good health wherever they are in the world. We are building the clinical team and technology to make this possible for as many people as possible
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