Whakaturanga | Innovation Showcase

Companies

Pacific Edge

Cxbladder is a suite of non-invasive genomic urine tests optimized for the risk stratification of urothelial cancer in patients presenting with microhematuria and those being monitored for recurrent disease. The tests help clinicians improve the overall patient experience, while prioritizing time and clinical resources to optimize practice workflow and improve efficiency.

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Enztec

Enztec is known worldwide as a supplier of innovative orthopaedic instruments for the world's best implant companies. Designing and manufacturing quality hip, knee and spine instruments, with customer support and on-time delivery performance to match. Enztec products are used in hip, knee and shoulder replacement, sports medicine procedures, and spinal surgery.

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Intervengine

Intervengine recreates personalised coaching experiences through engaging digital journeys, achieving behaviour change at a fraction of the cost of traditional coaching. Improve the health and wellbeing of your customers, patients, employees or members with our behaviour change tools, evidence-based content library and self-service journey builder.

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Research Groups

Improving pressure measurement at the human body interface. Our perception of pressure is subjective. We can't quantify the pressure we apply to objects around us, nor to our own bodies. Research Fellow Dr Massi Hesam, from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute is working on a new approach using her bioengineering skills.

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Using electrical stimulation to prevent asthma attacks. An inhaler delivers medication directly to the lungs when an asthma attack starts but what if there was a way to prevent the attack even starting? That's what University of Otago Associate Professor Yusuf Cakmak and his colleagues are working on - and it just might be a small wearable device.  

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Virtual Reality in Bariatric Education: Advancing Clinical Decision-Making and Weight-Inclusive Care. Dr Caz Hales and her team are developing a Virtual Reality (VR) bariatric education platform to support clinical decision-making regarding patient size, equipment, weight-bias, and empathy.

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Students

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