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title: HTA Monthly Wrap - August 2022
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This month the HTA shares news about more healthtech winners, a blog from the DHA, upcoming HTA events, and more.

| View in browser Kia ora from Callaghan Innovation, Welcome to the August 2022 edition of the HealthTech Activator (HTA) Monthly Wrap. This month saw the winners for the NZ Hi-Tech Awards announced at the Gala Dinner on August 5th, with healthtech company Alimetry taking home a record three awards - congratulations to the team!     In other sector news, Toku Eyes was announced as 42PLUS1 US Satellite Award Winner and will be heading to Europe for the final pitch event; NZD$5.1 million in funding was announced for three international research projects led by NZ universities using Soul Machines’ technology; and Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ is trialling a biosticker technology from the US to improve patient experience by enabling monitoring from home.    The Digital Health Association (DHA) celebrated their 20th birthday last week in Wellington, bringing together key private and public sector organisations operating across NZ. In this edition we share a blog from Ryl Jensen, CEO of the DHA, discussing their double decade milestone, digital’s role in NZ’s health system and some of the other ongoing work the DHA is doing.    Several HTA in-person events are coming up in October and November: you can find links to register for all the HTA workshops and other upcoming healthtech sector events on the HTA website. First off the rank will be the popular HTA market validation workshops, Introduction to Knowing your Customer and your Market, taking place in Christchurch (October 4th) and Auckland (October 20th).        More detail and links to everything discussed above and more are provided below. If you have any comments or suggestions to improve our monthly roundup, we would love to hear from you! As always, thanks for subscribing to the HTA.        HTA news It’s All Systems Go for Digital Health in New Zealand Ryl Jensen, Digital Health Association   Ryl Jensen is CEO of the Digital Health Association (DHA), the industry body representing the majority of digital health companies and organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this blog, Ryl provides her perspective on where things are at and where things are heading for digital health across New Zealand.   Read more on the HTA website       Upcoming HTA events    Introduction to Knowing your Customer and your Market Workshop 4 October 2022, Christchurch & 20 October, Auckland \| Facilitated by Dan Hansen and Will Perry of Apagie   This popular in-person workshop is part of the HTA market validation series and is aimed at early-stage healthtech companies, or healthtech companies that would like to have a fresh look at their market and how they have validated it to date.   This workshop is run by Dan Hansen and Will Perry from Apagie, who use their cross-industry experience to give companies the right processes and perspectives for successfully commercialising their health technology. Register for Christchurch - 4 October Register for Auckland - 20 October   You can view more upcoming HTA events on the HTA website.       Upcoming Community Events 2022 NZ Healthtech Insights Report Launch Tonight - 31 August, 6pm - Hosted by TIN, Auckland   Sold out, but you can read more here - if you're going the HTA team will see you there!   TTM speaker series: Health & Technology - The importance of having a Pacific lens 7 September, Online   Get in early: HiNZ Digital Health Week NZ 2022 5-8 December, Rotorua       Other sector news Toku Eyes: 42PLUS1 US Satellite Award Winner Ehsan Vaghefi of Toku Eyes will be heading to Europe for the 2022 finals of 42PLUS1 Grand finale at the DxPx EU event. (August: 42PLUS1)   2022 NZ Hi-Tech Awards - Winners Announced! Alimetry won big at the 2022 Hi-Tech Awards, taking home a record three awards for their gastric disorder technology (5 August: NZ Hi-Tech Awards)   Kiwi invention to prevent NICU babies' skin injuries a success Following a published proof of concept study in May 2022, Dr Deborah Harris of Pēpi Splint discusses their innovation to prevent skin injury in baby ICU (6 August: One News)   BioSticker trials monitor patients in the community Wearable technology from US company BioIntelliSense is being deployed in Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ trials to allow monitoring of patients from home (11 August: HiNZ)   Machine Learning checks quality of GPMRI referrals Under a new national ACC programme, machine learning is being used to significantly reduce the need for manual review of MRI referrals from GPs (16 August: HiNZ)   Digital humans to provide better healthcare services in NZ Soul Machines’ Digital People will be used as part of three international research projects led by the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury  (22 August: IT Brief New Zealand)       Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe to future emails on the HTA website. Kind regards, HealthTech Activator team Callaghan Innovation Callaghan Innovation, Gracefield Innovation Quarter, 69 Gracefield Road, Lower Hutt, Wellington 5010 Manage preferences |
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