Digital Health: The Sleeping Giant of Australian Health Technology Industry
In the first half of 2020 Australia has seen significant reform to reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care services, increased acceptance of digital health technologies by the medical community and patients, and a widespread recognition of the need to embrace digital health.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for swift, wholesale change to the way we view healthcare in the modern world, however the advocacy and support for Australian Digital Health companies has been bolstered in recent years by ANDHealth, whose mission is to provide programs and support to digital health companies specific to the challenges of commercialising in the digital health sector.
The recently released ANDHealth report describes digital health as the sleeping giant of the Australian health technology sector, which, if
awakened, would achieve the triple aim of economic growth through high-value STEM-based job creation, increased advanced manufacturing and clinical trials activity, and sovereign health system capability and resilience.
ANDHealth CEO Bronwyn Le Grice steps us through key report data from 317 emerging high growth potential digital health companies across Australia. Each of these companies has been supported in some way by ANDHealth since 2017.
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Being Part of the New Health Frontier
In November last year, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport delivered its bipartisan report “The New Frontier: Delivering better health for all Australians” on the approval processes for new drugs and novel medical technologies in Australia.
Australian Health Journal spoke to some of the industry bodies who were part of the Inquiry, for their comments on the process, the report and hopes in the recommendations being implemented.
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Redefining diversity in clinical trials
Ensuring inclusion, diversity, equity and patient input in the development of novel drugs and medical devices has become well accepted in health care. However appropriate implementation of these elements has been a challenge for many. Only by implementing these conscious inputs can patient outcomes be improved and health disparities in marginalised groups be addressed.
Australian Health Journal spoke to Gillian Mason, Consumer and Community Involvement Lead at Hunter Medical Research Institute in Newcastle, NSW on this topic discussed at the recent ARCS Conference in Sydney.
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Psychiatrists to discuss connectedness at RANZCP 2023 Congress
Next week, at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) meet for the RANZCP 2023 Congress on the theme of “New Horizons: Connected Futures”
Australian Health Journal spoke to current President-Elect Dr Elizabeth Moore and soon to be President, RANZCP about the Congress, as well as the recent Federal Budget announcements around mental health funding.
