Clinicas del Azucar

World´s First Retail One-Stop-Shop for Diabetes Care

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Authors

Alejandro Montemayor Maldonado

Alejandro Montemayor Maldonado

Idalia Garza

Idalia Garza

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pedro castro

Guillermo Castro

Guillermo Castro

Mario Gerardo Garcia Alonso Ferret

Mario Gerardo Garcia Alonso Ferret

School

EGADE Business School Tecnologico de Monterrey

EGADE Business School Tecnologico de Monterrey

Professor

Consuelo Garcia-de-la-torre

Consuelo Garcia-de-la-torre

Global Goals

3. Good Health and Well-Being 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth 10. Reduced Inequalities

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Summary

Clinicas del Azucar offers specialized, affordable diabetes care, one-stop shop treatment centers for underprivileged Mexican people. This is possible through innovation and cutting-edge technology like innovative evidence-based algorithms, which reduces the disease’s treatment cost by 70% and the waiting and consulting time by 80%.

Innovation

The innovation emerged from Javier Lozano’s knowledge, while he was studying his MBA from MIT Sloan, due to his interest in helping patients with chronic conditions. While there he was able to develop the technology that supports Clinicas del Azucar's innovative business model.

World´s First Retail One-Stop-Shop for Diabetes Care

Inspiration

Lozano had the opportunity to discuss with Julio Frenk (Harvard’s dean and Mexico’s former health secretary) and began to have a vision of healthcare systems for underserved people in México. It's important to mention that Javier had experienced first-hand the terrible consequences of diabetes and the marked inequality in access to healthcare, as his mother suffered from type-II diabetes.

Overall impact

This innovation has a huge growth potential, because it offers an innovative and low-cost solution to offer the healthcare industry the means to fight México's number one cause of death. More than 14 million Mexicans suffer from diabetes and more than 80,000 die per year. Globally, Diabetes affects over 415 million people in the world, mostly in low and middle-income countries with difficult access to disease prevention, and it is a direct cause of 1.5 million deaths per year. It is estimated that by 2040, more than 642 million people will have suffer from this condition.

Business benefit

The lack of access of diabetes treatment and prevention can lead to increased absenteeism and reduced productivity while at work, whether as a result of a disease-related disability, early mortality, or by exclusion from the workplace to take care of sick family members.

Social and environmental benefit

The social impact lies mainly in the prevention of complications such as blindness, amputations and renal damage due to a lack of specialized treatment in diabetes. It also reduces likelihood of complications by 60 percent and increases treatment’s productivity by 15 percent.

Having a healthy population can lead indirectly to reduced impact on carbon emissions due to transportation from underserved communities to the populated cities with health care infrastructure for treatment.

Interview

Javier Armando Lozano Garza, MBA

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Business information

Clinicas del Azucar

Clinicas del Azucar

Monterrey, NL, MX
Year Founded: 2012
Number of Employees: 51 to 200
Its mission is to provide specialized and affordable diabetes care in Mexico. Clinicas del Azucar is a venture-backed social enterprise (Sugar Clinics) founded by MIT and Harvard graduates experts in diabetes care and health technologies. With a comprehensive redesign of the care processes, use of cutting-edge technology, implantation of a sophisticated payment method and the creation of one-stop-shops, we reduced 70% the annual cost of care (From $1000USD to only $200USD). Clínicas del Azúcar addresses a critical socioeconomic issue, reduces inequality, and improves peoples’ quality of life.