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.
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