- State Government leading a delegation of WA organisations to
AusMedtech 2024
- AusMedtech is the premier industry event for medical device
companies in Australia
- Number of WA's medtech and digital companies have doubled in
past five years
Eleven Western Australian
organisations are attending the AusMedtech 2024 conference to showcase a range
of medical devices and service opportunities.
Science and Medical
Research Minister Stephen Dawson is leading the delegation of WA organisations to
the conference as well as addressing the premier industry event about the
dynamic health and medical research ecosystem in WA and the business
opportunities available.
The number of Western
Australia's medical technology and digital health companies have doubled in five
years with many of these companies now reaching major milestones, including
AusMedtech attendee Metabolic Health Solutions (MHS), a grant recipient of the
Cook Government's Investment Attraction Fund (IAF).
The IAF funding has
supported MHS in manufacturing their first batch of locally made ECAL Devices
to measure and monitor a patient's metabolic health.
AusMedtech enables
companies from across the country to share advancements, insights and best
practice with counterparts along with securing potential interstate and
international partners.
The conference is
attended by representatives from key national and global markets.
The eleven WA organisations
include:
- Orthocell;
- Metabolic
Health Solutions;
- Resonance
Health;
- Pawsey
Supercomputing Centre;
- OncoRes
Medical;
- Inspiring
Holdings;
- Curtin University - Healthy Connections;
- The
University of Western Australia;
- WA
Department of Health;
- WA
Country Health Service; and
- WA
Life Sciences Innovation Hub.
For more information: https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-jobs-tourism-science-and-innovation/ausmedtech
Comments attributed to Science and Medical Research Minister Stephen
Dawson:
"AusMedtech is a
fantastic opportunity for our local medtech organisations to showcase and
broadcast their innovative ideas and the boundless business opportunities that
are available here in WA.
"In WA we are extremely
fortunate to have a pool of amazing and very talented health and medical
researchers, whose work is positioning WA as a global leader.
"AusMedtech is the
nation's premier industry event and offers a multitude of opportunities for building
business networks, both interstate and internationally.
"This delegation of WA
organisations are experts in their field, and this is a great opportunity to promote
WA's medtech sector and all our State has to offer to support growth in the
industry."
