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Sydney healthtech Patient Connector helps patients find specialist doctors
Aiming to bridge the information gap for patients needing a specialist doctor is Patient Connector.
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Brisbane startup MyMedKit delivers online pharmacy orders on-demand
MyMedKit was founded with the aim of simpiifying healthcare. As founder Joe Zhou put it, “People should be able to access medicines while sick at home with a touch of a button.”
Partner Content
[VIDEO] Talking everything HCF Catalyst with Slingshot Accelerator and HCF
We had a chat with the Slingshot Accelerator and HCF teams about everything HCF Catalyst and what kind of Startups and Scaleups HCF and Slingshot are looking for.
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Healthtech startup HotDoc raises $5 million Series B round led by Right Click Capital
HotDoc has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round led by Right Click Capital, with participation from existing backers including AirTree Ventures.
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Victorian startup Medtasker aims to streamline communication and task management for hospital staff
An aspect of hospital TV dramas that’s somewhat true to life is staff relying on pagers as a key mode of communication. Medtasker wants to update this.
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Melbourne healthtech TALI Health is taking a gamified approach to treating child inattention
TALI Health provides engaging software platforms and game-based apps to assess and treat core childhood difficulties, such as inattention, and improve cognitive and academic performance.
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MedCorp Technologies has developed a wearable to bridge a communication gap between doctors and patients
After seeing a close friend’s battle with cancer, Jacqui Savage decided she had the background and skills to try to do something she hopes will save lives.
Advice
Healthtech app Be A Looper aims to help those suffering from depression easily check in with their support loop
Be A Looper works by allowing each user to add up to five people to their support ‘Loop’. Users check in daily with a rating of how they’re feeling on a scale of one to five, with others in their loop also checking in.
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With a focus on regional areas, telehealth startup Lysn connects people to vetted psychologists for video consultations
Looking to address both the stigma around mental health and the dearth of mental health professionals outside the major cities, Lysn is a telehealth service connecting patients to vetted psychologists.
Talent Unleashed
Winning a Talent Unleashed Award provided medical technology startup Life Whisperer with “invaluable” credibility
The Talent Unleashed Awards have uncovered a wide variety of innovative companies over the years, with more than a few working to save or make lives better from the medical or health technology sector. The latest to join this group of alumni is Australian startup Life Whisperer, which is working to better the often costly… Read more »
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Healthtech startup ScalaMed wants to help patients manage their own prescriptions
For ScalaMed, the journey to helping patients manage their health simply and conveniently, on the go, starts with medication management
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The segments healthtech and biotech investors are putting their dollars towards
Startups in the wide-ranging Australian healthtech sector have raised more than a combined $165 million in funding, while biotech sits at $87.8 million.
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The problems healthtech and biotech startups in Australia are solving
Between bone repair glue and gene splicing, there is a diverse range of startups working to improve our health or innovate the way the sector operates.
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Industry segments that have raised the most money in NSW
Sitting behind fintech startups, the expected champion in NSW amongst all the industry segments, are health and biotechs.
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CSIRO and Monash University partner to launch M2 medical precinct to support healthtech startups
The CSIRO has this week launched M2, a new facility that will help emerging medical technology companies and researchers commercialise their ideas.
