Healthbox Labs
Prevention is the cure.
New Zealand treats what it could prevent.
We carry one of the developed world's heaviest preventable disease burdens, and a health system built to catch it late. The numbers make the case for doing it differently.
New Zealand has the highest melanoma rate in the world.
deaths in New Zealand is from cardiovascular disease.
lost to workplace absence in New Zealand every year.
Yet up to of premature heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes is preventable.
Sources: Melanoma New Zealand, Heart Foundation NZ, World Health Organization, and the Southern Cross & BusinessNZ Workplace Wellness Report 2025. Figures indicative, to be finalised before publication.
Four areas, one job: making prevention the cure.
Research & evidence
White papers and benchmarks built on our own measured, de-identified data. It starts with The Healthbox Index: the first annual report on New Zealand’s working health built on clinical data, not surveys. Coming 2027.
The Healthbox Index·Peer-reviewed studies·Sector benchmarks
Data & intelligence
A de-identified research pipeline that turns millions of measurements into patterns, safely. Individuals see their results, employers see the picture, New Zealand sees the patterns. Nobody ever sees the person.
De-identification pipeline·Population analytics·Privacy by method
Platform engineering
Healthbox Live, the technology prevention runs on, built in-house: booking, clinical workflows, and the analytics behind every report and every insight we publish.
Booking & records·Clinical workflows·Reporting analytics
Clinical innovation
New models of care piloted in real clinics and measured before we talk about them, from AI-assisted documentation to earlier skin cancer detection.
AI documentation·AI-assisted dermoscopy·Earlier detection
The Healthbox Index
The first annual report on New Zealand's working health built on measured clinical data. Not a survey. Coming 2027, be the first to read it.