Health
Is Telehealth Destroying the Physio Profession?
Last week i had a thought leader within the Physio profession present a controversial question for my thoughts: Is telehealth destroying the health profession? This was my response: I completely understand the hesitation that Physiotherapists feel when faced with the treat of digitised consultations, bereft from physical touch. I felt the same way when…
Read MoreHealth Conference Organisers, We Need To Talk…
I wanted to jump out of my seat and scream…or lie on the floor and have a tanty like a 5 year old. It was the end of a long day at an Allied Health Conference, and my expectations of the day had been left well and truly unmet. Why? Because in…
Read More5 Ways to Avoid Burnout in Your Health Career
Burn out can be defined as ‘fatigue, frustration, or apathy resulting from prolonged stress, overwork or intense activity.’ (Official source: the Dictionary app in my iphone). Even before I graduated as a Physiotherapist, I was told in one of my University classes that I was likely to burn out. I hadn’t worked a day in…
Read MoreTop 5 Tech Trends Health Professionals Must Plan for in 2017
From my experiences scouring the globe for tech trends and how they apply to the health industry, I want to share with you the top 5 digital tech trends that health professionals need to be looking out for in 2017. 1) Virtual and Augmented Reality Virtual reality is conveyed within a digital headset, where…
Read MoreThe future of digital health: what could that mean for your small business?
I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was witnessing a paraplegic person walk again. I viewed this amazing moment in a video shown by a fellow presenter at the International Society of Digital Medicine conference in Nanjing, China. A robot exoskeleton was wrapped around the body of the paraplegic person, and they were walking with crutches…
Read MoreWhen bedside manner goes online: The future of business communication
Have you heard of the concept of ‘bedside manner’? The term hails originally from the health industry, where it referred to the personal skills that a doctor required to communicate with their patient. The term can, however, be applied in a business sense to refer to how we communicate with our customers in a transaction…
Read More7 Things about the health industry that need a good shakeup
Let me start by saying that on the whole, I love the health industry. We are caring, we are motivated and in many cases, we literally save lives. Becoming involved with entrepreneurs across wide a range of areas, however, has given me a unique birds eye view of how different industries are moving and changing…
Read More3 Life hacks to shed your entrepreneural fat
I grew up as a ballerina, I trained as a health professional, and I have led health and fitness programs all my life. I have always prided myself on my fit and active lifestyle. That is, until January this year, when I pulled on my boardshorts for an afternoon of stand up paddle boarding. Oooooeee…
Read MoreHow to treat patients in your pyjamas – 5 ways health businesses can take their services online
There I was, in the midst of a bone chilling Melbourne winter, propped up in bed under some toasty blankets with my laptop on my knees. As I hit ‘send’ on a message for a patient that I was treating online, I couldn’t help but chuckle. I was, quite literally, treating a patient in my…
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