Kia ora from Callaghan Innovation,

Welcome to the October 2022 edition of the HealthTech Activator (HTA) Monthly Wrap. The KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards took place on the 6th of October, with several healthtech projects in the limelight. The research underpinning University of Auckland spinout Alimetry received the Breakthrough Project Award and AUT’s RespirAq was highly commended by the judges in the same category.   

In this month’s HTA blog, we hear from Abbas Al-Murrani from Health Economics Consulting NZ. Abbas discusses the fundamentals of health economics and some of the frameworks involved in demonstrating value to healthcare payers. Continuing on this topic, the HTA is also running a new webinar covering Global Trends in Health Technology Assessment on December 9th - details below. 

Other upcoming HTA events include Increasing the Value of your Healthtech Company (in-person, Auckland) and Demystifying Regulatory and Quality (online). You can view all upcoming events on the HTA website.   

Read on for links to everything mentioned above and more sector news from the past month.

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HTA news

Health Economics - Where to Begin?

Abbas Al-Murrani, Managing Director and Health Economist at Health Economics Consulting NZ

In this month’s HTA blog, Abbas Al-Murrani of Health Economics Consulting NZ discusses the fundamentals of health economics and some of the frameworks used for demonstrating value in healthcare.

Read more on the HTA website

Upcoming HTA events 

Increasing the Value of your Healthtech Company Workshop

17 November, Auckland | Facilitated by Jai Basrur & Kate Wilson

Our next HTA Auckland workshop is ideal for earlier-stage healthtech businesses seeking to develop strategies for leveraging their existing and future intangible assets to maximise value. 

Run by Jai Basrur and Kate Wilson, this in-person workshop provides an overview of the relevant principles, concepts, and practical considerations for bolstering the value of a healthtech business.

Global Trends in Health Technology Assessment Webinar

9 December, Online | Presented by Thomas Paulsson

This webinar will provide participants with an overview of some of the approaches used by decision makers in key markets to evaluate a novel health technology, and reviews some of the trends that healthtech companies should be aware of.

Demystifying Quality and Regulatory Workshop

14 December, Online | Facilitated by Natalia Lopez and Yaara Yarmut

This regulatory workshop is provided in collaboration with Te Tītoki Mataora, and has moved online for those unable to attend in-person in Auckland. Aimed at pre-spinout research groups and early-stage startups, this workshop covers the fundamentals of quality and regulatory considerations for medical devices. 

You can view more upcoming events and e-learning on the HTA website.

Other upcoming Community Events

Digital Health Week NZ 2022

5-8 December, Rotorua. You can read more and register here.

BiotechNZ Connect Event: Celebrating 2022

8 December, Auckland. You can read more and register here.

Other sector news

MedTech Bites September/October 2022 edition

The latest edition of the CMDT’s newsletter features company stories and other healthtech sector news and events (4 October: CMDT).

2022 KiwiNet Awards Winners

Alimetry won the Breakthrough Project Award and RespirAq was highly-commended in a healthtech-dominated project category (6 October: KiwiNet).

Healthtech: three part series from NBR (paywall)

NBR’s Fiona Rotherham investigates NZ’s healthtech sector in a three-part series covering challenges, Health NZ’s work, and investment (10-12 October: NBR).

The Clinician: succeeding in Singapore

Ron Tenenbaum and Tam Hankinson from The Clinician discuss their journey and success in securing major health contracts in Singapore (13 October: myNTZE).

Kiwi researchers working to sniff out bowel cancer – but not the way you think

Promising research investigating the use of breath samples to detect bowel cancer has been trialled with around 170 patients in Wellington and Porirua (23 October: Stuff).

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HealthTech Activator team

Callaghan Innovation