Clinician-founded · Developed in Auckland
Helping patients understand, prepare and participate in their care.
Loupa brings patient information, preparation and questions together around the clinical journey.
A functioning digital health platform, now seeking clinical and research partners to evaluate its impact on patient understanding, preparedness and communication.
Understand · Reflect · Ask · Reconnect
The clinical problem
The conversation continues after the appointment.
Patients need time to revisit information, involve whānau and recognise the questions that matter to them.
Loupa gives that reflection a practical place: a pathway patients can return to as they consider options, prepare for treatment and recover. It supports the conversation with the clinical team; clinical decisions and informed consent remain with patients and their healthcare professionals.
Explore the platform →Working platform · Live examples
See Loupa in practice.
Explore the Compass Surgical hernia pathway.
Follow treatment information, preparation and recovery guidance, with tools for patients to save questions and identify their priorities.
Further examples: Gallbladder · Lumps & bumps
These are working product examples. Availability and use do not, by themselves, establish clinical effectiveness.
Designed around the patient journey
- Clear, structured information that can be revisited.
- Questions and priorities to bring to the next conversation.
- Practical preparation and routes back to the care team.
- Local clinical ownership and controlled content review.
Developed from clinical practice
A clinical problem, experienced first-hand.
Dr Tom Hanna
Consultant general and transplant surgeon in Auckland, medical educator and founder of Loupa.
Loupa grew from the challenge of helping patients make sense of information, prepare for decisions and bring their questions back into clinical care. The next step is to evaluate how well it does this in practice.
Meet the evaluation opportunity →Current stage
Built. Ready to evaluate. Wider adoption should follow evidence.
Functioning platform
Working patient pathways and product examples provide a concrete starting point.
Structured evaluation
Seeking partners to shape appropriate studies of patient experience, understanding and clinical workflow.
Evidence-informed adoption
Use findings to guide improvement and decisions about broader implementation.
Evaluation is the next step. The planned evaluation will assess patient benefit and practical implementation before decisions about wider adoption.
Evaluation questions and collaboration →Start a conversation
Two ways to work with Loupa.
Clinical evaluation & partnerships
For clinicians, researchers, innovation teams and health-system organisations interested in evaluating Loupa and informing its next stage.
Discuss evaluation or collaborationA pathway for your service
For practices and hospital services exploring a locally tailored patient pathway, with clear clinical ownership and a focused starting point.
Discuss a pathway for your service