Founded by 24 year old medical student and ex-cancer patient Nikhil Autar, the Sydney startup was born out of both Autar’s own experiences while sick, and those of friends he lost to illness.
Aiming to bridge the information gap for patients needing a specialist doctor is Patient Connector.
Meditrav is looking to capitalise on the growth of medical tourism and develop the market in Australia, with an initial focus on attracting Chinese patients.
For ScalaMed, the journey to helping patients manage their health simply and conveniently, on the go, starts with medication management
Personify Care has developed a platform which offers clinical staff a quick and simplistic way to monitor a patient’s postoperative recovery.
CSIRO has announced a partnership between Data61’s Coviu and Health Team Australia, which will see a real-time online video platform rolled across Australia.
Swibo is a Wellington-based startup that provides physiotherapists with a balance training app to gamify the recovery and rehabilitation process of their patients. Swibo gamifies physiotherapy by transforming a user’s smartphone into a balance board.
Brisbane healthtech startup DoseMe has received $2.6 million in a Series A funding round led by a series of investors including Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter. The investment will help DoseMe commercialise into the Australian market and also expand into the US.
Australian healthtech startup HealthKit has announced today a partnership with Coviu, a startup from Data61. The partnership that will see 15,000 health practitioners provided with video consultation capabilities.
Sydney healthtech startup CancerAid has launched in the Apple Store and has also signed 17 new customers, including its first international customer in Hong Kong. CancerAid is one of the world’s first apps to bring personalised cancer care to smartphones and is set to revolutionise patient care on a global scale. The startup is now in the process of raising $1.25 million in Seed funding.
To decrease the cost of hospital expenditure and relieve the time spent between patient and doctor is new healthtech app, Ada. The app is a diagnosis smartphone service that was built in Berlin and London with the input of more than 100 medical doctors and years of clinical research.
Sydney-based startup Brontech is one of the latests startups to utilise blockchain technology in a different way to fintechs. Unlike fintech startups Brontech is not moving money, giving loans or encrypting currency, instead they are using blockchain to build a platform that can establish trust and security in the healthcare system.
Melbourne healthtech startup 4Dx has found an innovative and 21st century solution to measuring the function of the lung. 4Dx has created a product called the fluoroscope that takes an X-ray of the lung as the patient is breathing to provide a 4D functional measurement rather than a 3D anatomical measurement.
Coviu, with the help of Data61 has developed a platform from the ground up to target the next technology curve, being video conferencing technology.
Cricketer Steve Smith has turned a $100,000 startup investment into $12 million 
WeWork reveals an astonishing $2.4 billion annual loss as it pushes to an IPO 
Antler Australia just put $1.2 million into 12 startups in its first Sydney accelerator 
Atlassian became a A$50 billion company last week, just as the tech giant revealed bigger operating losses 
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