As an organisation
centred around what makes us human,
we put a big focus on people.
At AstraZeneca,
our mission is to accelerate
the delivery of life changing medicines.
Our priority is to ensure
that our people feel healthy,
safe and motivated.
We had an opportunity
to ask employees
what would be the most convenient way
for them to access
quick and easy mental health support?
And that's how the idea
for HealthyMind was born.
We wanted to achieve two things
firstly,
ensuring that mental health support
was accessible.
And secondly, ensure that the solution
contained information
across all the countries
where we have colleagues in AstraZeneca.
Building a dedicated app
with Microsoft Power Apps
was the perfect choice.
Key to the choice was its ease of use.
It is low code,
so it was quick to develop and deploy.
This all meant
we were able to design and build
HealthyMind very quickly,
in four months actually.
Its natural integration
into the broader suite that we use
enabled us
to deliver the application
within the context of Teams,
which was another game changing factor.
We've seen terrific numbers
around 8000 monthly users since launch.
We also linked HealthyMind
with Viva Insights
so that colleagues could track
productivity and wellbeing
as well as data insights.
Because the app is part
of an integrated system.
Even if you're halfway through something
and you think, Oh, I need to figure out
how I can manage my stress levels,
you can just click on the app
and navigate yourself
through the internal
or external resources.
We're now working with Microsoft
to look at
how we develop
that version two of HealthyMind
to make it even more accessible.
We're really looking at
how we can empower colleagues
across AstraZeneca
for those that have great ideas
so that they can develop
their own use cases.
I've been really humbled
by the impact that the HealthyMind app
has had on the organisation.
It has been something
that has been able to be leveraged
to bring benefit to colleagues.
It's great to know that with Microsoft,
we're empowering our people
and our organisation to achieve more.