We will introduce healthcare enablers from our community here with highlights of their contributions. If you are or know any enablers, please let us know.
Saurabh Mishra, a Melbourne based entrepreneur in healthcare for the past 21 years. He has founded and scaled several e-health/digital health ventures including
- eClinic (e-messaging between medical clinics and diagnostic labs – bought by ASX listed Healthscope in 2009),
- PalCare (cloud based health records for patients in palliative care, used by most palliative care agencies in Australia and New Zealand, bought by ASX listed Healthscope in 2009),
- SamplesPlus (enabling Australian GPs to source free samples of pharmaceutical products, bought out by Chemist Warehouse in 2010),
- Healthnotes (enabling interactivity between pharmacies and patients around script refills, bought out by ASX listed MedAdvisor in 2016 ASX:MDR).
His current venture is Allevi8 (https://allevi8.net/), supporting those affected by a significant physical or mental health challenge with meditation & mindfulness practices.
Awadhesh Kumar is Melbourne-based and founded PlasmIT (https://plasmitvector.com) to scale timely, high-quality critical care delivery in ICU. He understands that the future of care will be defined by how we empower them with intelligence – seamlessly integrated into clinical workflows to improve outcomes at every point of care.
At PlasmIT, his team is builiding PiMed, an AI-first connected care delivery platform – starting with Smart ICU on Mobile™ – designed to extend critical-care expertise through predictive insights, integrated workflows, and evidence-based decision support.
PiMed – Smart ICU on Mobile™ is an affordable, vendor-agnostic, privacy & AI-first platform that integrates with existing hospital systems. By enabling a decentralised, scalable SaaS model, it enhances care provider productivity, optimises ICU utilisation and improves patient outcome globally.