Tag: Healthcare

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.

Time-poor Australians are increasingly booking their healthcare appointments outside of office hours through online services and apps like 1st Available.