Brandon Krongold and Matt Dowling are Investment Co-ordinators at Lighter Capital — a zero dilution, revenue-based debt capital provider for growing tech and healthtech businesses. In this episode, Brandon and Matt share their story and how Lighter Capital has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into growth companies. They also explain what terms like ‘zero dilution’, ‘zero equity warrants’, ‘zero personal guarantees’ and ‘financial covenants’ mean, before comparing and contrasting those te...
Apr 11, 2022•38 min•Ep. 71
Sarah Bartholomeusz is the Principal at You Legal, an award-winning commercial law firm helping health and HealthTech businesses protect their purpose. Sarah has over 18 years experience as a lawyer and has an active practice in corporate and commercial law. In this episode, Sarah shares how her vision for You Legal aligns with the principles of Digital First Healthcare, how the business is working with healthcare professionals to modernise healthcare service delivery, and how Sarah is passionat...
Mar 28, 2022•40 min•Ep. 70
Lynette Reeves is a Behavioral Change Specialist with the Miroma Project Factory, a globally integrated digital development studio coupling leading edge, engaging solutions with unique behavioural change, storytelling and gamification. In this episode, Lynette discusses behavioural economics and behavioural centred design, including understanding some key frameworks for digital health product design such as the ‘EAST framework’. She also talks through how to evaluate effectiveness in supporting ...
Mar 14, 2022•43 min•Ep. 69
Original publish date: 08 Dec 2020 Laura Simmons is a paediatric occupational therapist and founder of Theratrak, an app that allows therapists to prescribe, monitor and track customised therapy programmes for children. In this episode, Laura shares her journey and transition from being a full-time therapist into becoming a start-up founder, what type of therapy challenges and problems she observed that led to creating Theratrak, and how using Theratrak has transformed her daily schedule. Key ta...
Feb 28, 2022•34 min•Ep. 68
Original publish date: 10 Nov 2020 Chris Naoumidis is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Mindset Health. Mindset Health provides app-based hypnotherapy programmes to help people manage and improve their health. In this episode, Chris shares how a very stressful period of his life led to him becoming interested in gut-directed hypnotherapy; we discuss the evidence backing Mindset's digital therapeutic apps; and Chris shares how evidence-based digital health can provide a set of tools for practitioners ...
Feb 14, 2022•39 min•Ep. 67
Dr Patrick Aouad is the Co-founder and CEO of [cu]health, a virtual medical practice for businesses. Pat is focused on bringing evidence-based approaches supported by appropriate innovation to support trusted, compassionate and excellent healthcare. In this episode, Pat shares his journey through the healthcare industry. Originally a consulting neurologist, Pat co-founded a medical practice and achieved extensive academic qualifications, including publishing research. He’s since co-founded [cu]h...
Jan 31, 2022•58 min•Ep. 66
Alexandra Robertson is the VP of Client Growth & Innovation at XIL Health — a technology and consulting company supporting Pharmacies, Benefits Managers, Accountable Care Organisations and Hospitals to innovate and optimise their healthcare businesses. In this episode, Alexandra talks to us about the complexity and innovation opportunities for consumer access to drugs within the medical and pharmaceutical benefits system, its supply and also its management. She then turns to the opportunitie...
Jan 17, 2022•42 min•Ep. 65
Original publish date: 12 Nov 2019. Entrepreneur and co-author of Fit to Practice, Kaye Frankcom joins me on this episode. Kaye is an accomplished psychologist and passionate businesswoman. Her career path has taken her from consultant to speaker, and owner of her own group practice for 17 years. Kaye addresses issues that should be tackled when deciding whether to enter into private practice alone. With more practitioners leaning toward running their own practices, Kaye poses key questions that...
Jan 03, 2022•41 min•Ep. 64
Dr Jim Feng is the Founder & CEO of Phyxable, an end-to-end virtual pain and prevention platform that uses machine learning, augmented reality and gamification to coach people out of pain. In this episode, Jimmy breaks down the reasons why digital health for the musculoskeletal professionals is not only needed, but how it adds value to clients/ patients, improves engagement, healthcare outcomes and leads to potentially better professional work lives for healthcare professionals. Key takeaway...
Dec 20, 2021•40 min•Ep. 63
Ben Raphael is the Co-founder of Stake Something, an app designed to help people achieve their goals using the concept of “staking”. Staking is a method to motivate and hold people accountable for taking the necessary actions designed to help that person succeed. In this episode, Ben discusses the behavirourial economics of loss aversion and present bias. He also talks about the neuroscience of taking action that leads to building a customer experience where individuals and their coaches (or hea...
Dec 06, 2021•39 min•Ep. 62
Alan Zaia is an osteopath, and he's also the Founder and CEO of Osteohustle. Osteohustle is a business and marketing company run by a team of osteopaths which helps osteopaths achieve their own version of success. In this episode, Alan explains why he developed Osteohustle, and the digital-first approach Osteohustle takes, which enables osteopaths to build their own brands and achieve their own goals. With both the personal experience as a business owner, and now as a community leader supporting...
Nov 22, 2021•54 min•Ep. 61
Gaelene Adams Wood is the Managing Director and Business IMPACT Partner with Team Fusion International, a business leadership coaching group from New Zealand. They help business owners redefine meaning in business, relationships and life. Gaelene is a leading expert on improving productivity in business through high-performance leadership coaching and creating high performing teams. In this episode, she shares how she drew from her personal experience as an employee working within teams to devel...
Nov 08, 2021•51 min•Ep. 60
Klaus Bartosch is the Co-founder and CEO of 1st Group, an online marketplace focused on improving lives by connecting healthcare consumers with a variety of healthcare providers and information. In this episode, Klaus talks about the 1st Group, the healthcare problems it’s focused on, and how they’re addressing those problems. He also discusses the types of products now available and what areas of healthcare service experiences they cover. Key takeaways: Patients today expect the ability to sear...
Oct 25, 2021•56 min•Ep. 59
Neeraj Maharaj is the Program Director for Secure Messaging with the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), a statutory authority in the form of a corporate Commonwealth entity. The ADHA has a vision to create a healthier future for Australians through connected healthcare. In this episode, Neeraj shares his journey within the ADHA, as well as a number of programs he's been delivering including the recent Provider Connect Australia. Key takeaways: Neeraj is a passionate digital health innovato...
Oct 11, 2021•41 min•Ep. 58
Mohammad Mohaghegh is the Co-founder and Director of Panteya, a patient experience application bridging the gap between medical specialists and their patients. In this episode, Mohammad shares his experience with the UNSW Health 10x accelerator program, whilst working directly with specialists to uncover their client engagement problems. Mohammad explains how he is designing the Panteya MVP ... all while being an undergraduate student, all seemingly with a smile on his face. Key takeaways: Pante...
Sep 27, 2021•39 min•Ep. 57
Dr Roxie Mooney is the CEO and Healthcare Commercialization Strategist of Legacy DNA, who focuses on helping health tech innovators uncover their most profitable and viable market strategies, from early adoption strategies to pivoting. Dr Roxie is also the international best-selling author of “How Health Innovators Maximize Market Success: Strategies to Launch and Commercialize Healthcare Innovations”, as well as the host of the “COIQ with Dr Roxie” podcast. In this episode, Dr Roxie shares her ...
Sep 13, 2021•44 min•Ep. 56
Nick Grant is the Head of Healthcare at Openpay, a next-generation payments solution offering Buy Now Pay Later within healthcare and other markets. In this episode, Nick shares his journey from a former practising osteopath to Head of Healthcare for Openpay, and why he's committed to helping healthcare providers extend the choice to their clients to manage budgets better when it comes to accessing healthcare. Key takeaways: Openpay is an Australian-owned fintech business. They connect merchants...
Aug 30, 2021•44 min•Ep. 55
Tim Wilson is the CEO and Co-founder of Snapforms, an online form builder that allows healthcare providers to create, share and collect data to support healthcare workflows or healthcare marketing. From the simple to the complex, the humble form is an integral and often overlooked part of any patient's healthcare journey. In this episode, Tim shares how Snapforms has digitised the form to support digital-first healthcare services in any way, shape or size. Key takeaways: Intake forms, patient co...
Aug 16, 2021•39 min•Ep. 54
Today's episode features a Reimagining Healthcare livestream panel covering the topic of: “The promise of biosensing: Achieving the vision of personalised medicine”. On this panel, we discuss the commercial and real-world opportunities coming about from the convergence of these fields to address some of the world’s biggest healthcare challenges and problems that will move toward achieving the vision of personalised medicine. This livestream has come together via a collaboration between coreplus,...
Aug 02, 2021•51 min•Ep. 53
Dr Malcolm Thatcher is the Chief Technology Officer at the Australian Digital Health Agency ("the Agency"), a statutory authority in the form of a corporate Commonwealth entity with a vision to create a healthier future for Australians through connected healthcare. In this interview, Malcolm shares how technology is shaping digital health going forward, the Agency's interoperability plan and why that's key to success for digital health. We also discuss the Agency's mission to develop a collabora...
Jul 19, 2021•53 min•Ep. 52
Robert Niichel (Bob) is the Founder and CEO of SmartTab, a digital medicine company developing novel and effective wireless drug delivery and monitoring systems. In this episode, Bob discusses the reimagination of capsules to produce a wireless smart ingestible capsule as a platform for personalised, biologically targeted drug delivery. He talks about what the key problems are with existing drug delivery methods and how the SmartTab offers to deliver a better patient experience, whilst supportin...
Jun 21, 2021•34 min•Ep. 51
Sonia Bestulic is a Speech Pathologist, author, podcaster, industry speaker and Founding Director of Talking Heads Speech Pathology. Sonia has embraced modern digital methods to connect with her community and help empower and support her clients with valuable insights, information, education and tools — in addition to her clinical healthcare services. In this episode, Sonia shares her experience gained through 20 years of speech pathology. She also talks about her inspiration to use approaches l...
Jun 07, 2021•44 min•Ep. 50
James Hatchman is the Co-founder and CEO of Voice of Health, a social platform for mental health peer to peer support. It's providing access to people and communities where people can talk about their lives with supportive people, based on their shared lived experience and offering tools and strategies to self-manage mental health wellbeing. In this episode, James discusses his journey and inspiration to develop Voice of Health, with insights into the startup journey to date. James’s journey hig...
May 24, 2021•38 min•Ep. 49
Sumeet Charan and Alexis Schteinman are the Vice Presidents Industry for 2021 and 2020 respectively at the Society of Medical Innovation (SOMI). SOMI is a student-led society at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) promoting innovation in the med-tech sector and inspiring students to not wait for graduation before seeking to make a difference. In this episode, they share how SOMI came about and discuss how SOMI is connecting current students with industry insiders. They also share how this h...
May 10, 2021•40 min•Ep. 48
Hays Bailey is Founder & CEO at SHEQSY, a cloud-based lone worker health and safety platform that enables organisations to visualise, monitor and track employee activity in real-time. It helps generate alerts for overstays, missing check-ins or situations that have caused duress. In this episode, Hays walks through the user experience from a health professional's point of view, a case or team manager's point of view and the business's point of view. He talks about how SHEQSY is an easy way t...
Apr 26, 2021•41 min•Ep. 47
Peter Vranes is a Co-founder of Nutromics, an Australian med-tech company providing continuous, real-time molecular monitoring using a smart patch biosensor platform. In this episode, Peter shares his story from having already built and exited a successful cosmeceutical brand and how that led to meeting his co-founder to build Nutromics. He also talks about how that experience led to them participating in a med-tech accelerator, and their journey through capital raising and biosensor supported p...
Apr 12, 2021•51 min•Ep. 46
Today’s guests are Dina Titkova (the Health 10x Program Manager at the University of New South Wales) and Vesna Todorovski (the Global HealthTech & Innovation Program Manager at The George Institute for Global Health). In this episode, Dina and Vesna share their respective journeys which led them to be involved in both designing and delivering the Health 10x Program within the University of New South Wales Founders Program. And they describe how the program works to help establish or acceler...
Mar 29, 2021•44 min•Ep. 45
Dr Harro Stokman is the Founder & CEO of Kepler Vision Technologies, a company providing human activity recognition software to improve the well being of humans at night. Harro comes from a deep background in technology and after selling a successful technology business, decided to focus on an innovative use of AI and Machine Learning in the areas of human activity recognition. In this discussion, Harro explains what human activity recognition is, the type of healthtech involved and how it a...
Mar 15, 2021•43 min•Ep. 44
Heath Williams is an osteopath who frequently lectures on topics such as exercise rehabilitation, ergonomics and clinical education. He’s also the director of Corporate Work Health Australia, a provider of corporate health, safety and wellness advice. In this episode, Heath and Yianni focus on what workplace health means and what the responsibilities of an employer are in a changing workplace landscape. Heath also shares his vision of an ideal workplace. Key takeaways: Workplace injuries are a m...
Mar 01, 2021•37 min•Ep. 43
Ricardo Escalon is the Director and Principal Designer at Thought Collaborative, an Australian human-centred design agency. He’s also a veteran of the industry, with over fifteen years' experience. In this episode, Ricardo explains the importance of human-centered design and how, when it’s done well, it can power ideation, creation, and product or service delivery that helps customers achieve their goals. Key takeaways: Software can be designed to effectively produce the desired result, but diff...
Feb 15, 2021•46 min•Ep. 42
