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5th January 2023

Where do patients go when they need care and treatment? Or where do patients go after being diagnosed with a chronic disease? Many of us would immediately think of a hospital or a medical facility. However, that can be costly, as it could involve a long wait, and be ineffective. In addition, it places more burden on an already-overtaxed part of the healthcare system that is still reeling from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The pandemic upended the entire health ecosystem. Hospitals had to reassign significant resources, time, and physical space to treat urgent cases. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts by providers, many patients in need of critical care and treatment for chronic diseases were left behind.

A new focus of care outside traditional settings was urgently required to provide access to patients needing post-acute and long-term care. The need of the hour is to develop an ecosystem that brings the necessary multidisciplinary healthcare provisions to the patient instead of bringing the patient to the provider.

Remote care alternatives and the adoption of innovative technology are an ideal combination to ensure adherence to treatment throughout the patient’s journey and deliver healthcare quickly. Solutions, including telehealth, remote patient monitoring (RPM), mobile clinics, and artificial intelligence (AI), will effectively treat patients and provide them with quality care from afar.

Improving the patient journey outside the healthcare facilities

Remote services have proven to provide a safe, convenient, and effective way to serve patients outside the hospital environment. Furthermore, it has also recently seen a rise in demand.

In 2019, Axios designed a cross-regional program spanning the UAE, KSA, and Kuwait. The program utilizes a team of government health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, physicians, pharmacies, and other stakeholders to help overcome the growing burden on traditional health facilities and help close the patient support gap that exists outside the hospital. The solution is centered around remote and at-home care customized to each patient’s needs.

The solution ensures eligible patients receive quality care, and sustainable support from Axios’ experienced, multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals in the most convenient in a conducive setting, either at home, in a facility, or a combination of the two.

Virtual appointments with physiotherapists and nutritionists, delivery of prescribed treatments directly to a patient’s door, and home visits by a multidisciplinary team of specialists are among the many options continuously emerging to offer higher quality care at a better value for both the patient and the healthcare system.

The program has already proven popular among patients and practitioners. During the past two years, 25,000+ patients have been enrolled in the program, while 2,000+ healthcare practitioners have recommended patients and guided them through their treatment journey. Also, over 4,000 specialty medications have been delivered to about 1,400 patients, offering individuals a new way to continue their prescribed treatment without visiting a hospital or pharmacy.

Over 98 percent of patients that received care at home requested value added services during multidisciplinary team visits. In the UAE alone, over 26,000 different services have been conducted for patients during the past two years. Axios Remote Care services include receiving a full nutrition plan, physiotherapy, diagnostic and vaccination services at home, as well as completing IV drips. Axios Home Care is currently available across many countries in the MENA region, with plans for further expansion.

In the past 25 years, Axios’ has committed to advocating access solutions that strengthen the healthcare system and maximize medical benefits for patients.

Generating further interest, this year at the Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition (DUPHAT) 2023, Axios is conducting a scientific program on ‘The Impact of Access on Healthcare Efficiency,’ where Axios will engage and co-create conversations from different perspectives such as regulators, healthcare providers, private companies, societal and patients perspectives that will generate 360-degree point of views aimed at empowering the future of transforming accessibility to healthcare and increasing efficiency.

Photo caption: Axios International congratulates Cliona Brady (seated), Dr.Anas Nofal (left), and Roshel Jayasundera (right) on being promoted to top leadership positions at Axios. Cliona is now the Chief Operating Officer (COO). Anas and Roshel have now been promoted to Managing Partners. Our leaders play an active role in guiding the business by continuing to push boundaries to do what is right and embrace change. Axios wishes them all the best in their new roles!

Axios International, a global healthcare access company, is pleased to announce promotions in its global leadership team to support its strategic business initiatives.

With effect from January 1, 2023, Cliona Brady, Senior Director, Business Services, has been promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer and will lead the strategic design and operational delivery of a global Business Services function, including Human Resources, Finance, IT, Compliance, Communications, and Corporate Governance. Anas Nofal, Senior Director of Greater Middle East and North Africa, and Roshel Jayasundera, Senior Director, Global Consulting, have both been promoted to the positions of Managing Partners and are responsible for guiding Axios’ strategic direction, developing and implementing organizational goals by managing Axios International’s diverse teams and client relationships worldwide.

Cliona, who joined Axios in 2009, helped restructure the foundation of Axios in the past 10 years and made it where it is today. In her new role, she will provide leadership and management to ensure that the business has effective people, operational controls, and administrative and reporting procedures in place. Anas joined in 2011 and started Axios’ first program in MENA. Today he has successfully developed the business and implemented innovative projects in all of Axios’ healthcare access and adherence programs and significantly expanded its footprint in the Greater Middle East and Africa regions. Roshel joined Axios in 2016 and has been instrumental in overseeing high-performing consulting services globally as well as operational teams in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Dr. Joseph Saba, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Axios International said, “As the company marked its 25^th anniversary and reached a critical size and footprint, strengthening one of our greatest assets – the Axios family is a priority. Our leaders play an active role in guiding the business by continuing to push boundaries, do what is right and never stand still in embracing change. Anas and Roshel will continue to nurture client and partners relationships roles and grow Axios footprint and impact in their new position as ‘Managing Partners,’ while Cliona will reinforce the internal teams in her role as the new ‘Chief Operating Officer.’ I look forward to continuing to work with them and believe they will be instrumental in successfully leading Axios toward the next 25 years of transforming access to healthcare. With our exceptionally strong senior leadership team in place, we will continue to focus on creating long-term value for our stakeholders, clients, and most importantly, our patients.”

Executive bios and photographs of the top leadership team at Axios are available here click link

Ends

“Malaysia, with regards to healthcare overall, is ahead of the game. Digital healthcare has been a strategic priority for them since the start,” says Roshel Jayasundera, Senior Director, Global Consulting.

Listen to learn more from our latest digital conference hosted in Malaysia titled, ‘The Role of Digital Healthcare in Providing Holistic Support Solutions Beyond the Hospital Setting.’ 

Join Roshel and Director of Digital Health, Raphael Itah, as they speak to Audrey Raj, host of the Business Station, BFM 89.9 in Malaysia, about the why digital healthcare is so crucial in Malaysia, and around the world, and how it can improve treatment outcomes.

With hundreds of healthcare leaders in attendance, we had a great time learning and sharing our insights during this week’s ASEAN HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION SUMMIT 2022 in Malaysia. Our Senior Director, Global Consulting, Roshel Jayasundera, and Director of Digital, Raphael Itah, shared learnings from our Patient Support Programs in Asia on leveraging technology in the connected health era.

We look forward to working with clients and partners across the region to help transform their approach to access and care delivery through digitalization.

Click here to download a report on digital trends in healthcare access.

Our Senior Director, Greater MENA, Anas Nofal joined an esteemed panel of experts at ISPOR SAUDI ARABIA to discuss the value of Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in driving positive medical outcomes for patients.

Anas shared learnings from our PSPs across the MENA region on how such programs can be used to enable patient and system-level cost savings, while improving medical outcomes.

The session was moderated by Dr. Abdullah Alanazi, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, and Director of the Health Sciences Research Unit at Al-Jouf University in Saudi Arabia.

Visit https://ispor-saudi.com/ for more information.

Our History

Axios was formed in 1997 by an entrepreneurial group of health experts who believed that patients deserved better. They shared a unique vision of an organization that would bring the distinct needs of the private and public sectors together to transform conventional access to healthcare models. And that’s exactly what we did.

At the peak of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Axios founders designed and launched an unprecedented antiretroviral (ARV) access program at a time when access to quality medications in developing countries was unheard-of. Soon after, we launched the world’s first access programs for cancer medications.

Our early programs gave millions of patients access to critical, life-saving medications and opened the world’s eyes to the feasibility of alternative, more effective access models. 25 years later, Axios continues to break new ground in the design and implementation of access to healthcare solutions across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Europe.

The Future of Access

There remains much uncharted territory to navigate and new opportunities to explore to improve patient access. As we look ahead to the next 25 years, we felt it was important to ensure that our brand reflected our learnings from the past two decades and served as a guide for the road ahead. That is why today Axios unveils a new logo. The globe in our new logo represents what we feel is needed to continue to improve access to healthcare for patients all around the world: Access is not a one-off solution. Sustainable access is multi-dimensional and built by addressing the needs of all involved stakeholders. The globe in our new logo represents the building blocks of sustainable access solutions.

Sustainable access solutions must:

• Blue: Support financial sustainability
• Orange: Drive patient outcomes
• Green: Enable health system and policy improvements

We look forward to continuing to collaborate with our clients and partners to put quality care and treatment within reach so that all people can achieve better health.

Axios International and Dar Al Ber Society announce the successful opening of Abwab Al Khair Pharmacy on Sunday, June 26 – the first of its kind in the UAE that primarily focuses on improving patient access to medication for chronic diseases and an ecosystem to new resources of fund for charity. The pharmacy will serve as the approved pharmacy for Patient Access Programs (PAP) dispensers and will be available for all charities who wish to support patients. 

The establishment will be supported by our partners in the government, the private sector and various charities to address the needs of our patients and the community. 

Proceeds from the pharmacy will be donated to the Dar Al Ber fund permanently, dedicated towards Dar Al Ber charitable work – a unique establishment integrating a new concept. Donations will be given to a pharmacy focusing on the theme of the community.  

Thank you to our partners, for their multi-sectoral collaboration in bridging healthcare access to patients.

Each Patient Is Unique. Join Us In Taking Action To Optimize The Patient Journey.

The ‘one size fits all’ approach to patient access is one of the past. Each patient is different, and that means each one has their own unique challenges. By understanding the patient journey – from the moment where they experience symptoms all the way until they stop treatment – and the different factors that could affect their decisions along the way, we can ensure that they both access and stay on treatment. The need for more innovative patient-centric access approaches is greater than ever, especially as the pandemic continues to affect patients’ lives and the healthcare system. We can only move forward together and that’s why it’s so important for different stakeholders to come together to learn and educate others.

That is exactly what will be happening at this year’s Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition (DUPHAT), one of the biggest annual pharmaceutical events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Axios International has partnered with the organizers of DUPHAT to hold a two-day multi-stakeholder symposium where top experts and key decision makers will share their insights and experiences on understanding and optimizing the patient journey to ensure optimum health outcomes. The symposium will include more than 25 speakers from various healthcare-related backgrounds.

The sessions will provide hands-on, practical insights for all stakeholders working in healthcare-related fields. You can expect to:

• Learn about the patient journey needs and challenges from different perspective
• Understand the value and impact of understanding the patient journey
• Know how to identify patient needs and challenges
• Discover the available personalized services that increase access and adherence to treatment
• Find out the roles of different stakeholders in the patient journey
• Learn how to optimize the patient journey
• Hear exclusive announcements on new initiatives being launched in the region

Visit us at stand number 3A30 or join us virtually. Registration now closed.