Reimagining Healthcare

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 d...

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 g...

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 inspir...

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 an...

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...

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 particip...

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 Ne...

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 discuss...

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 land...

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 thei...

Dr Louise Metcalf is a psychologist and the Founder and CEO of Gheorg, an online robot who helps kids with anxiety. Louise’s vision and clever approach to design has resulted in an educational and loveable online character that families can easily download as an app and introduce to their child. In this episode, Louise shares her story with irresistible enthusiasm and energy. From her clinical car...

Megan Capriccio is the Co-founder of the FemTech Collective, a premier network supporting founders of female healthtech innovation around the world. Megan has a very diverse background. From researching the role of women on the international stage at the University of Sydney, to establishing a tequila company that empowers and celebrates women in the wine and spirits industry, Megan is passionate...

Luke Fletcher is the Co-founder and CEO of Foxo, a digital health communication platform that facilitates communication between healthcare teams and organisations in a clinically safe, secure and seamless way. In this episode, Luke shares the development process of Foxo and how design-thinking has helped them build a modern, secure and private communication platform for healthcare professionals. L...

Susie Jones is the Co-founder of Cynch Security, a cyber-security business fitness software, designed to build cyber-security into healthcare businesses. In this episode, Susie shares how her journey working within insurance and cyber-security for major corporations led to the development of Cynch Security's innovative subscription model. She describes how this model helps healthcare businesses ac...

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, a...

Dr Qusai Hussain is the Founder and CEO of Cyber Clinic, an online mental healthcare clinic providing quality therapeutic matching, online video consultations and measurement supporting outcomes anywhere, anytime. In this episode, Qusai shares how Cyber Clinic helps strengthen the therapeutic alliance, and how this directly relates to positive client outcomes. Qusai and Yianni also explain how the...

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-b...

Mat McGann is the Co-founder and CEO of Health Horizon, a health-technology tracking platform which uses humanised AI to discover and organise public information about healthtech innovation into curated timelines. In this episode, Mat shares the key benefits Health Horizon can bring to consumers, practitioners, investors and policymakers — and what type of insights are available on the platform to...

Matt Green is the Founder of BodyGuide, a body literacy and movement guide app that provides guidance and digital health programs to help manage pain and other movement issues. This episode focuses on Matt's journey as an allied health practitioner moving into healthtech innovation, and unpacks the process of building an emerging and innovative approach to health literacy, self-management and self...

Benjamin Gold is the Co-director of Home Physio Melbourne. In this episode, Ben explains how the convergence of health technology, attitudes, patient requirements, and how the impacts of COVID-19 are driving higher demand for home healthcare service models. And, we discuss the value of empowering team members to use key principles and implement innovations like telehealth to cope with the dramatic...

Scott Taylor is the CEO and Co-founder of Perx Health, a digital healthcare app that uses rewards, games, and challenges to motivate behavioural change for people living with chronic conditions. In this discussion, Yianni and Scott work through the behavioural science and techniques used by healthtech to help supercharge patient willpower, how to break down complexity and barriers to adherence, an...

Cate Schreck is the Director and Service Excellence Coach at Lightbulb Training Solutions, a team of highly-skilled workplace trainers and facilitators who specialise in customer service and teamwork professional development programs for workplaces. In this episode, Cate shares her passion for frontline customer service and how adopting a human-centric approach, rather than being sales-motivated,...

Ronan Leonard is the Founder of Eccountability, a mastermind mentoring, coaching & support programs helping entrepreneurs & founders of healthcare and healthtech organizations discover and align themselves, their business needs, and their world views around meaning and purpose. Ronan and Yianni discuss why values, ethos, and vision are the keys to forming an essential relationship with cus...

Dr Cam McDonald is a dietitian, an exercise physiologist, a PhD scholar and a leader in personalised health. He's also the CEO of Ph360 — a provider of the healthtech lifestyle application Shae — along with supporting programs, education, coaching and healthcare personalisation. Dr Cam shares his passion, his history, and his knowledge of the latest research on body types, genetics, and environmen...

Ravini Abey is the Co-founder and CEO of PhysiVoice. In this episode, Ravini shares how her personal healthcare journey led to the motivation to create PhysiVoice, a healthtech start-up aimed at cultivating more meaningful relationships between patients and allied health practitioners. Yianni and Ravini discuss how AI, combined with a more holistic biopsychosocial approach to clinical practice, ca...