Reimagining Healthcare

Michael Wang is a Co-founder and CEO of Telecare, one of the largest virtual healthcare clinics in Australia. Telecare provides accessible, affordable, and efficient healthcare across specialist and allied health fields. In today's episode, Michael details his journey in starting a virtual clinic, and how Telecare is combining business, technology, and medicine to provide a digital-first healthcar...

Paul Wright is a Physiotherapist, and the author of the Amazon best-seller "How to Run a One Minute Practice". He's also the Founder of Practiceology, a program designed to help health business owners enjoy their lives by working less, earning more, and focusing on what matters. In today's episode, Paul shares his observations on the challenges of owning an allied healthcare business, and how over...

Rochelle Mutton is a senior Occupational Therapist and the Founder of Motivate Kids, a digital-first OT healthcare service provider which works with kids in Australia’s disability sector. Plus, Tim Wilson, Co-founder and Director of Snapforms is back to share his insight as a health-tech software provider. In this episode, Rochelle and Tim discuss the growing number of practice owners who recognis...

Travis Brunn, Rob Hydomako, and Eric Gartner are physiotherapists and Co-founders of SimpleSet, a digital health rehabilitation app that connects healthcare professionals with clients. They’ve each worked as physios for over 12 years, and founded SimpleSet 10 years ago to improve communication between clinicians and patients. In today’s episode, the boys discuss life as physios and digital health-...

Hugo Richards is the Co-founder and CEO of Dystech, an evidence-based online literacy measurement and dyslexia screening platform powered by artificial intelligence. Hugo believes all problems have solutions; sometimes they just take a long time to find. But with advances in technology and artificial intelligence (AI), suddenly our human brains and problem-solving capabilities are far less limited...

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’,...

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 workin...

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 desi...

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 observe...

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 ap...

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 ac...

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 ph...

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 alon...

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 outcome...

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 ta...

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 go...

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 episod...

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...

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...

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 ... al...

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 Innovati...

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 accessin...

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...

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 visi...

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 t...