Digital Health

Australia’s healthcare sector is set to triple over the next decade.

Meet demand for integrated database systems, improved patient experiences and enhanced remote care. Share in this extraordinary growth.

Expanding by a record 8 per cent each year,¹ Australia’s digital healthcare sector is presenting significant demand for medtech innovations that will take it into the future, and Victoria's thriving digital health ecosystem is developing and launching the solutions.

Victoria’s health care system leads the way in developing improved national health care experiences. It is home to more than 300 medtech companies and start-ups, contributing A$36 billion to the economy in 2019-2020 and employing 12 per cent of the state’s population.²

Join companies such as XRHealth, Planet Innovation, Health Delivered, Seer Medical and Blamey Saunders Hears, who are creating technology that treats a wide range of medical conditions and facilitate improved health support.

Why develop your digital health solutions in Melbourne?

Victoria demonstrates strong return on investment in health innovations

The Victorian Government is committed to supporting global innovators and investors in the development of products that improve quality of health care. Victoria’s health sector also provides the world-leading expertise and cutting-edge capabilities needed to successfully launch solutions that drive Australia’s future of healthcare forward.

• Australia has consistently ranked in the top ten globally for health expenditure per capita, ranking higher than the OECD average³.
• Victoria's start-up and tech funding accounted for more than 65 per cent of Australia’s funding market share in 2018-19, totalling A$4.5 billion⁴
• Sustained investment has returned more than A$4.50 in economic activity for every dollar of government investment and created more than 73,000 direct and indirect jobs in the sector⁵
• Victoria’s medical technology and pharmaceutical companies now attract more than 40 per cent of Australia’s medical research investment (more than any other state), spending almost A$1 billion on research and exporting more than A$2.4 billion a year⁶
• Healthcare is Victoria’s largest employer, employing 12 per cent of all Victorians and contributing over A$36 billion to the Victorian economy in 2019-2020⁵
• World-class systems such as The Connecting Care Electronic Medical Record (EMR) program are being funded and built to connect medical institutions to new central databases
• Regulation in Australia is undertaken by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - a founding member of the International Medical Device Regulator Forum, facilitating faster approvals of therapeutics

You can access a strong pipeline of specialist talent in health, biomed and technology

• Victoria is home to 14 independent medical research institutes with more than 5,800 skilled staff. The state’s wider medical research sector supports more than 30,000 jobs across institutes, universities and industry⁷
• Victoria is home to more biomedical engineers than NSW or Queensland and has a comparable number of data scientists with NSW⁸
• Victoria’s tech talent pool has more professionals with software development skills than Singapore and Hong Kong, and is growing faster than anywhere else in Australia⁸.

We can introduce you to channels that connect you to healthcare providers, researchers and tech innovators

• Melbourne is home to the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, a powerful mix of over 40 hospitals, medical research institutes, biotechnology organisations and universities, and one of the world's largest biotechnology hubs
• Melbourne is a global hub for biopharma manufacturing and mRNA research, home to Moderna’s first mRNA manufacturing facility outside of North America and The Advanced Genomics Collaboration initiative between Illumina and the University of Melbourne
• The Melbourne Digital Health Ecosystem, launched by RMIT University in partnership with the European Connected Health Alliance, establishes connections between healthcare providers, researchers and tech innovators
• Strong Melbourne-based partnership connections to national support networks such as the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) and ANDHealth are fostering collaboration between technology providers and industry

Broad government support for the advancement of Victoria’s digital health development hub

The Victorian Government understands that improved digital health services means better care. That’s why it is committed to ongoing support of a sector that is rapidly growing and developing innovative research hubs designed to close the gaps in national health infrastructure and drive Australia’s future of healthcare forward.

• The Victorian 2021/22 Budget has committed A$7.1 billion to upgrading and improving health care systems, including the improvement of telehealth and digital administration
• The Victoria Government has pledged A$210 million to support research and growth of medical institutions, including A$155 to build an Australian Institute for Infectious Disease
• Research is supported by the Federal Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), a A$20 billion long-term investment supporting Australian health and medical research

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