Welcome to the June edition of the HTA Monthly Wrap. It’s been a busy year for the HTA, hosting 13 community events, adding multiple new resources to the website, and providing freedatabase search supportto over 20 companies. If you’re in need of support,please get in touchwith us to find out more about how the HTA can help you.
We’re excited to share two of our first events confirmed for the second half of 2022, with more events for you to viewon the HTA events page. Over July and August we will continue to plan and build more HTA events for healthtech companies, including more webinars and in-person workshops that will be shared in future emails.
As we head intoHealthtech Week 2022, we’re also pleased to share an article from the team at our partner organisation, Te Tītoki Mataora (TTM) - The Medtech Translator, discussing the resources available through TTM for supporting healthtech research translation (more on this below).
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
Accelerating the Translation of MedTech Research
Ella Dixon, Te Tītoki Mataora Te Tītoki Mataora - MedTech Translator is a multi-faceted initiative focused on growing Aotearoa New Zealand's deep tech sector by supporting research and industry that address healthcare needs. Support is provided through two mechanisms, including the Research Acceleration Programme (RAP) funding and the HealthTech Capability Programme.
The Clinical Validation page on the HTA website has been updated with diagrams and case studies that aim to help entrants to the healthtech community understand key aspects of the trials process.
1 September 2022, online | Facilitated by Tim McCready of BioPacific Partners This online introduction workshop is tailored for the specific challenges of capital raising faced by healthtech companies. We encourage those early to mid-stage healthtech companies seeking to raise capital for the first time (outside their immediate networks) to attend.
Introduction to Knowing your Customer and your Market Workshop
15 September 2022, Christchurch | Facilitated by Dan Hansen & 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.
Volpara continues its relationship with Microsoft, announcing a joint project to accelerate development of a product for heart disease detection in women (22 June 2022: IT Brief NZ)
Registrations are open for Digital Health Week NZ (5-8 December), links to more information and other resources in the latest HiNZ newsletter (23 June 2022: HiNZ)
