Peter Vranes from Nutromics talks about their innovative smart patch biosensor technology, as well as helpful insights and guidance for founders and entrepreneurs.
Sally-Ann Williams is the CEO of Cicada Innovations. Cicada Innovations is Australia’s pioneering deep tech incubator supporting companies solving the world's most pressing problems through science & engineering. Cicada Innovations has nurtured hundreds of visionary deep tech innovators to validate, commercialise and scale high impact technologies globally across MedTech, HealthTech, AgTech, FoodTech, Clean Energy, AI, Industry 4.0 and more. Prior to joining Cicada Innovations Sally-Ann spent ov...
What healthtech solutions have you acquired for your medical practice this year? Hear Kelly Chard from GrowthMD provide their practical guide to making the most of your investment and how to avoid common pitfalls.
How do you drive big system change in healthcare? Check out this interview with Duane Attree from Potential(x) and Health Round Table to learn more...
Berne Gibbons is Head of Business Innovation and Partnerships at InfoMedix Berne is a respected leader in the healthcare industry with a background in Nursing, Pharmaceutical Industry and Digital Technology spanning 40 years. Listen to this episode to hear about her commitment to advancing Digital Health in Australia, and her desire to educate and inform the current and future healthcare workforce in Australia to utilise technology to its full potential. You will hear about Berne’s impressive hi...
In this episode of Talking HealthTech, we sit down with Cheryl Maley; General Manager of Oncology For Australia, New Zealand at Novartis, Krystal Barter; CEO of Humanise Health and the founder of Pink Hope, and Holly Masters; CEO of the McGrath Foundation. With the growing number of people avoiding getting routine checkups, health screenings, and early diagnostic tests because of the pandemic, Novartis has created the Wellness Day Campaign. It aims to motivate individuals to focus on their healt...
Leading into 2020, there was already strong interest from the Australian investment community regarding healthtech solutions. Now moving into our new normal world, the use of technology in delivering better patient outcomes is no longer a novel idea, it's mission critical for Australia, and the rest of the world. In this episode of the Talking HealthTech podcast, Peter Birch hosts a panel discussion with representatives from 3 top Venture Capital firms in Australia, who all have experience and i...
Athol Hann is a critical care and emergency nurse, and the founder of Fwards; an app designed to assist healthcare workers to control the fundamentals of shift work and off-load from the demands of working in healthcare. In this episode of the Talking HealthTech Podcast, Athol speaks to Pete about the challenges facing clinicians on the coalface of healthcare today, and shares some first hand advice to fellow healthcare workers who might be experiencing burnout. Check out the episode and full sh...
Kate Quirke is CEO and Managing Director at Alcidion. Kate has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare information technology She has been involved in large system procurements and implementations of healthcare information technology across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Kate’s background involves holding leading management roles at some of the largest healthcare software firms where she has had an impact on strategic product direction across the health sector and believes as...
Ian Burgess is the CEO of the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA), the national association representing companies in the medical technology industry in Australia. In this episode, Ian chats with Pete about the collaborations, innovations and evolution we’ve seen within the Australian MedTech industry particularly in the past 12 months. He also talks to the response to COVID from the medtech industry and the related impact and opportunities presented. Check out the episode and ful...
Deana Scott is Founder and CEO of VMORE. Deana and VMORE helps medical specialists start and scale their practices, and she continues to re-design, apply new technologies, processes, and systems to improve the ‘virtual private practice’ model. In this episode you will hear about Deana’s career, and the evolution of virtual services within healthcare. Deana also provides some helpful advice for healthcare providers about leveraging virtual services, as well as tips for implementing successful tel...
Hootan Mohseni is the founder of Cliniq Apps, a company that helps practitioners create and manage patient recall, retention and reactivation campaigns simultaneously across multiple channels. In this episode, Hootan talks about automation in a clinical setting - how it looks when it is done well, and what can go wrong when it fails. He also gives some super practical tips for anyone wanting to automate or streamline some processes and communication in their healthcare business right away. Check...
Hanya Oversby is Director and Healthcare Business Adviser for the company Specialist Consulting, and the company Health Business Network. She is also the host of the Doctor Diaries Podcast, which takes listeners behind the scenes of the intriguing medical world. In this episode, Hanya explores the challenges and opportunities facing the business of Australian GPs today, and the benefits of a “Business Reset” to get things back on track. Hanya also covers some valuable lessons she has picked up i...
Mir Imran is a healthcare innovator and entrepreneur who has been developing and commercialising breakthrough medical innovations for more than 40 years. He is founder and CEO of Rani Therapeutics,and he is focused on developing breakthrough technology that has the potential to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry by converting injectable medications into pills. Tune into this episode of the podcast to hear all about the RaniPill, and how they made a robotic pill that injects medication into the ...
Luke Fletcher is Co-Founder and CEO of Foxo, a global communication platform for enterprise Health. Foxo sets out to engineer modern solutions to today’s communication challenges, and they’re on a mission to connect a fragmented health system. Hear Luke describe what Foxo does and the challenges it overcomes regarding communication in healthcare. You will also learn about Luke’s experience with product design, and how these best practices need to be leveraged in healthcare. Check out the episode...
Mike Wenger is the Vice President of Patient Engagement at TrialScope, a company out of New Jersey who are unlocking clinical trial data superpowers. They’re helping to make centralising, structuring and activating clinical trial information simple for use across an organisation at every stage of a study. Mike has made a career within the clinical trial space and helping patient advocacy groups support clinical trial awareness to their online communities. In this episode, hear the story of Trial...
Ali Besiso is Managing Director of iCIMS, creating technology to solve the problem of producing tailored information systems for clinical teams. Ali is a passionate Health Informatician who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences and a Master’s in Health Informatics from the University of Sydney. In this episode Ali talks with Pete about Clinical Information Systems, Process Redesign, and User Experience (UX). He also takes a deep dive into health informatics, and the important work of heal...
Tim Atkins is the COO of CancerAid, a digital health technology company that builds patient engagement solutions for people with a cancer diagnosis. In this episode, you will learn about Tim’s unique career pathway that drew him to CancerAid, and his reflections and advice for others who want to enter into a career with a healthtech start up. Tim talks about the process of instigating behavioural change in cancer patients and the importance of patient engagement, as well as the challenges of del...
Robert Buehrig is the co-founder and CEO of Cogniom, a company that is empowering organisations to discover new truths through the collection and analysis of data. Cogniom's TANDM Suite helps bridge the gap of understanding between executives and front line staff, ensuring decisions made create the best possible outcomes for clients, staff and business alike. In this episode, hear about how to best demonstrate your Return on Investment (ROI) as a healthtech start up, and how to engage with diffe...
Mary Foley is the Managing Director of Telstra Health. Telstra Health is one of the largest Australian owned health technology companies, and is a subsidiary of Telstra Corporation, which is Australia’s largest telecommunications company. Prior to joining Telstra Health, Mary was Director General and Secretary of NSW Health for a five-year term. She has also previously held roles as National Health Practice Leader for PwC Australia, Chief Executive of St Vincent’s and Mater Health Sydney, and a ...
Bronwyn Le Grice is Founder, CEO and Managing Director of ANDHealth, a national digital health initiative established by commercial and government partners to facilitate and support the development & commercialisation of clinically validated digital health technologies across Australia. Bronwyn has many years of executive experience in the life sciences sector spanning corporate and business development, transaction management, investor relations and industry advocacy. In this episode learn abou...
Dr April Armstrong is a rural GP with a passion for business. She is the CEO of Business For Doctors, a social network and business advisory firm for Australian clinicians to help them run a better business. In addition to that, she owns two medical practices and has won a bunch of awards and invested in various initiatives supporting health care. She also actively supports medical students and overseas trained doctors during their transition into the Australian medical system. In this interview...
Dr Karen Price is a clinical GP, and Past Practice Owner. And up until recently she was the Deputy Chair, Victorian Faculty of the RACGP - she stepped down from this role as she is now a Candidate for the RACGP Presidential Elections. Karen is also the Co-Founder and administrator of GPs Down Under (GPDU) - a membership community featuring nearly 8,000 GPs focused on peer learning, peer advocacy, and peer support. In this interview, learn about the rise of social media and its role in clinician ...
RACGP President Dr Harry Nespolon has passed away aged 57 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He died peacefully in his sleep nine months after first being diagnosed. Dr Nespolon was great advocate for General Practice in technology, and supporter of healthtech innovation in Australia. A wonderful clinician and businessman, taken from us way too soon. When Pete from Talking HealthTech last with Dr Nespolon back in November 2019, the idea that Medicare funded telehealth would be a reality ...
With me today is Henrik Molin. He’s the CEO of Physitrack, a patient engagement technology company that he co-founded in 2012. Physitrack was initially a side hustle for Henrik in parallel to a career in investment management. He attributes the success he has had in life to the fact he has always had a side hustle. In fact, he believes everyone should have one! During this interview, learn about the extreme rapid growth that Phystrack saw when COVID hit (200% of one year’s growth in only six wee...
Dr Chris Jones, Founder and Director of HosPortal, who are all about better management of healthcare staff by allowing better communication. Chris is like the double threat of healthtech - a software developer / computer programmer turned doctor, which means that the software solutions we creates directly address the needs of clinicians and solve some genuine problems in healthcare. In this episode you will hear all about Hosportal and the problems it solves for healthcare professionals and orga...
Rachel de Sain is an internationally regarded digital strategist and thought leader on the future of health and social care delivery in a connected world, with over twenty years of global experience having worked with governments, Fortune 500 companies, and leading academic institutions. Rachel is a member of the Australia New Zealand leadership forum and was appointed to the newly established World Health Organization's Digital Health panel of experts and has provided keynote presentations on t...
This is a pretty special episode for us here at Talking HealthTech. I don’t have with me here today a guest, it’s just me and you for the next little bit. That’s because I got news so noteworthy, I reckon it deserves it’s own episode. So buckle in, and check it out. Back in December 2018, so not even 2 years ago, this podcast started to fill a need in the Australian healthtech industry - to have more conversations, to promote collaboration for a more efficient healthcare system and a healthier n...
David Korsunsky is the founder of US based firm Heads Up Health - a mobile app and web portal that integrates health information from a huge number of different sources. Check this episode out to learn more about Heads Up Health and an emerging new era of the patient / doctor relationship. Visit here for complete show notes and more information on the topics discussed in this episode.
Rohan Pardasani is the CEO and Founder of Avaana, an online marketplace and community in the well-being, fitness and allied space helping practitioners. Their mission is to be the anchor of a person's entire wellbeing journey, and grow practitioner businesses Avaana are helping practitioners to grow their business, market themselves effectively and fill those dreaded white gaps in their appointment calendars. They are also helping patients address the challenge of getting access to good wellbein...
