Reimagining Healthcare

Natalie Jack is a registered music therapist, allied health supervisor, professional development coach, healthtech enthusiast, and lecturer. Natalie has drawn on her extensive 20+ year career as a healthcare professional (both domestically and abroad) to pursue her passion for supervision and integrated healthtech. And today, she supports and guides practitioners through their own careers. This ep...

Ben Walker is the Founder of the innovative chartered accounting and business advisory firm, Inspire CA. Inspire CA focuses on helping healthcare or healthtech business owners get cashed up, so they can put more money, time and happiness from their business. Ben believes in dreaming big and making an impact in business, while still making time for your family. Whether you're a start-up or a mature...

Dr Ben Buchanan is a psychologist and Co-founder & Director of NovoPsych, an Australian healthtech company providing software for administering psychological, remote and online questionnaires to patients. As a trained clinical psychologist, Ben is passionate about clinicians evaluating their own practice through the use of routine outcome monitoring, which is why he created NovoPsych. In this...

Kennedy Lay is a physiotherapist, a student mentor and the Founder & Director of The Communication Experience and The Breakthrough Event, an allied health and sports medicine virtual conference. In this episode, Kennedy comments on his observations about communication challenges during his time as a physio student and what he's doing to address those issues for new healthcare graduates with Th...

MetaOptima is a technology company that is focused on delivering intelligent dermatology solutions for clinicians. They created the MoleScope, a lightweight and clinical-grade mobile dermatoscope, and an intelligent supporting dermatology platform called DermEngine. In this episode, Yianni is joined by Peter Birch, MetaOptima Technologies Asia Pacific General Manager. Peter explains how AI can sup...

Will Egan is the Chief Strategy Officer at Ausmed. Ausmed is an online, continuous professional development (CPD) platform, designed for a modern healthcare workforce to complete and comply with mandatory CPD requirements as well as other learnings. In this episode, Will walks through planning, learning and documenting CPD — and how this makes meeting Ahpra and other peak body audit requirements e...

This episode is based on the Digital Health Service Delivery presentation, which was a live webinar to over 950 healthcare practitioners around Australia on the 24th of March, 2020. Yianni Serpanos is the host of this podcast and the founder of both the digital health practice management software Coreplus, and the digital health innovation community, HealthTechX. Yianni is committed to helping sup...

Steve Telburn — the Managing Director of Secret Sauce IP Ventures — is an accomplished tech entrepreneur, having started up and assisted multiple early-stage companies as a CEO through to successful exits. After studying life sciences at university, he worked in the IT department of Telstra where he was responsible for connecting the Telstra team with the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, thus facili...

Megan Walker is the Director of Market Savvy, an agency of allied healthcare marketing specialists and health promoters. She holds three degrees, a masters in business marketing, and is a veteran ethical marketer with over 25 years experience in the healthcare industry. Thirteen years ago she started her own agency, and she now works with a variety of different healthcare organisations across Aust...

Tony Simmons is the Founder and Director of Mktplace Ventures, a start-up and scale-up business advisory and community of investors. With a background in law and a fascination for the seed-stage of business, Tony uses his business-based perspective on intellectual property and technology to help fledgling companies build the strong foundations needed to become players in their markets. In this epi...

Dr Huu Kim Le is an Australian child analyst and psychiatrist, specialising in video game addiction. Based in South Australia, Kim can reach young and remote Australians across Australia thanks to telepsychiatry. Growing up as a gamer himself, he’s combined the two loves in his life — video games and medicine — and is an expert in the rapidly growing field of gaming addiction. In today’s episode,...

Catharine Nixon and Kayci Scaggs are the co-founders of the Vitamin C Blog. With a combined background of healthcare and marketing, Catharine and Kayci have created an online platform focused on facilitating connections between health industry experts and consumers seeking simplified and seamless healthcare support and content. Through twenty-five years working as a registered nurse in public, pri...

When Robert experienced a medical care failure in his own family, it inspired him to co-found Cogniom. The name is a combination of ‘cognition’ and ‘axiom’, and its purpose is to find truth in data for use in the medical field. Originally envisioned as a consumer service, Robert realised that just because something could be done, doesn’t mean people would necessarily want it. Five pivots later, an...

Renee McDonald is an online clinical counsellor and psychotherapist, an accredited clinical supervisor, an academic educator, a coach, a speaker, an author and the Founder of Australian Online Therapy Training (AOTT). This episode examines online therapy, from its fundamentals to the techniques and opportunities used to reimagine healthcare using this approach. Renee discusses how this extends to...

On this episode, I speak with David Di Sipio, a passionate psychologist and experience designer at the intersection between people, science and technology.  David is founder of MeetUp group UX Psychology and believes that tech is all about humans. He explains the BJ Fogg Model as he helps us understand behavioral science and how this ties in with technology in healthcare. He also unpacks the Hook...

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 becoming a Clinical Psychologist, to operating and selling a successful group psychology practice after 17 years, to coaching and speaking, as well as various board roles within healthcare associations. Kaye add...

On this episode, psychologist Dr. Natalie Flatt tells us more about her start-up, Connect Psych Services. This online service puts staff wellbeing at the fingertips of employees and is rooted in self-care, stress management and communication in the workplace. It is an ideal way for companies to successfully be part of a supportive collaboration for staff wellbeing. We learn that dealing with menta...

Katja Beitat is the Founder of CliniVid, a mobile-first digital healthcare information sharing app.  The app was established when Katja discovered communication gaps during care coordination that led to client dissatisfaction. CliniVid’s goal is to provide safe sharing of information across the healthcare sector. By pulling together patients records from different sources, CliniVid is able to crea...

Marijn Kortekaas of Physitrack is passionate about engaging clients whether they are in clinic or remote. In this episode, Marijn speaks to the questions of, “What is a digital healthcare network?”, “How do we connect practices with clients to deliver client-driven approaches?” and “How does a provider ensure safe, seamless and secure digital health information sharing with other connected points...

Rohan Braddy is the CEO at Mambourin Enterprises, an organisation that provides employment, education and training services to people with disabilities. On this episode, Rohan talks about the NDIS and how it is driving a more client-centric platform of care. Customers now hold the power in the healthcare space, which is why being customer-focused is so important. Rohan explains how Mambourin culti...

Ben Lynch is the CEO and a Founder of Clinic Mastery, an organisation which helps health clinics transform their client experiences in a way that’s personalised, engaging and memorable. In this episode, Ben talks about his career transition from being a podiatrist to eventually helping guide hundreds of other clinic owners to building successful practices. Ben shares a lot of key insights on the s...

Simon Taylor is the CEO and Founder of Rehab Guru, a web-based exercise prescription application with ease-of-use and client experience as its key pillars. With the product, exercise prescription and rehabilitation can now have real-time feedback, increased scalability and tools to monitor and help clients. As the healthcare sector (both private and public) shifts to a more digital infrastructure,...

Today’s guest is Claire Edwards is Founder of b.school4change and social movement #pledge4change and a purpose driven innovator promoting and supporting transformation within the healthcare. On this episode, Claire discusses methods and techniques to simplify making change using the Leading Change Model and explains whey we should accept changes in healthcare as a necessary step to transforming th...

Cathy Love is an author, business coach, occupational therapist and the Founder of Nacre Consulting. On this episode, Cathy talks about her practice, the motivations behind her work and some of the biggest obstacles within the allied healthcare field. She fully subscribes to the sentiment that, “Your level of success rarely exceeds your level of personal development.” Cathy touches on the power of...

Natasha Ace is Founder of the Private Practice Alliance. She has an immense amount of experience in the mental health field, having worked with 1,000s of practitioners to improve their practices. On this episode, Natasha shares her work with the Private Practice Alliance and their vision to understand and improve the client journey. They do this by supplying the necessary tools for practitioners d...