While all industries have had digital transformation plans in the pipeline, the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated shifts to digital ways of living and working. ATM withdrawals have rapidly declined, online food delivery rates have more than tripled, and specialist telehealth appointments grew more than ten-fold in the month of March in Australia. The push to digital ways of […]
Opyl has pivoted directly into the AI tailwind that is transforming healthcare. Like a super powerful industrial magnet, we use AI to identify and gather data into groups with the ability to predict, analyse, quantify and visualise real world data far more accurately and faster than any person could do. Our company uses AI to […]
The second Top10 Dynamic Entrepreneur that we are happy to interview this week is Errol McClelland, who has single-handedly taken his company TurmeriX from a market stall in Victoria to a global distributor – with his product now in 12 countries. This is all in just three years… TurmeriX is a healthcare business based on Turmeric, […]
Online healthcare marketplace HealthEngine has now raised close to $50m after closing a $26.7m Series C funding round. Sequoia India, which has worked closely with Apple’s Steve Jobs, Google’s Larry Page and LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner and other high-profile founders, led the round. The VC firm, which counts HealthEngine as its first direct investment in an […]
New technologies continue to launch in the blink of an eye meaning it isn’t always easy for business leaders to discern which will and won’t advantage their organisation. To help you identify the best tech bets for 2017, here are five guiding principles. 1. Spot the exponential curves and work out the customer value proposition within them Disruption by low-cost competitors […]
A Sydney-based ‘Hipster-Hacker-Hustler’ trio was awarded top honours at Johnson & Johnson’s inaugural Health and Technology Challenge, ‘HaTCHathon’, having impressed the judges with their innovative smartphone program designed to assist people recovering from knee reconstructions. The weekend-long ‘hackathon’ event, held last month (9 to 11 September), challenged students, health tech experts, entrepreneurs, and start-ups […]
Sydney-based healthtech start-up CancerAid has closed its Seed B funding round at $1.25 million, bringing its total valuation to $4.25 million. Founded in August 2015 by doctors Nikhil Pooviah and Raghav Murali-Ganesh of the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse cancer hospital, the company last month launched an app that manages a patient’s cancer journey, including their treatment and […]
Price comparison, a booking engine and an online marketplace – these three phrases are not usually associated with the quest for medical treatment. Not until entrepreneur, Pawel Cebula, asked himself one question and decided to act on the response: why can’t tools that work for other industries, also work for the growing number of medical […]
An inviting atmosphere at a healthcare clinic can be the difference between a continuous stream of patients and an empty waiting room.
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Time-poor Australians are increasingly booking their healthcare appointments outside of office hours through online services and apps like 1st Available.
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