ANDHealth today thanked RMIT University for its support as a core partner with their membership arrangement concluding after eight years.

RMIT University was a key supporter before the creation of ANDHealth and joined as a founding core partner when ANDHealth commenced operations in 2017. Since then, RMIT has played a key role in ANDHealth’s evolution from tiny non-profit startup to the digital health commercialisation engine room it is today, contributing invaluable expertise, services, personnel, time and financial support to ANDHealth’s nationwide programs.

ANDHealth CEO Bronwyn Le Grice acknowledged the support and impact RMIT University has had on ANDHealth and the broader digital health sector in Australia.

“ANDHealth is built on a premise of ‘harnessing the collective’. Everything that we have been able to achieve so far, and continue to achieve, in pursuit of growing a world class digital and connected health sector in Australia, is centred in our core partner organisations,” Ms Le Grice said.

“RMIT backed ANDHealth when it was just a concept and has played a critical role in helping us to support our sector to grow at a rate of 65% per annum (CAGR), and to build a pipeline of SMEs experience substantial commercial success, in Australia and overseas.

“Whilst RMIT University are finishing up as a core partner and ANDHealth member, I want to acknowledge what we’ve achieved together and also know that we will continue to support each other and engage proactively to further accelerate Australia’s digital and connected health sector,” Ms Le Grice said.

RMIT Executive Director of Research Partnerships and Translation, Tim McLennan, said the partnership with ANDHealth had helped turn the possibility of digital health into a practical reality.

“When we started working with ANDHealth there were plenty of ideas and optimism about what digital health could be, but no established pathway to translate that into a commercial and real-world success. Some eight years later there’s now a thriving sector in Australia which is globally competitive, in no small part to the work of ANDHealth, and we’re proud to have played a part in that,” Mr McLennan said.

The work that ANDHealth has done in growing the digital and connected health sector in Australia has put it on the map globally and made it a valuable player in the delivery of health care.

ANDHealth continues to have a strong core partner network across the digital and connected health ecosystem, including Telstra Health, Planet Innovation, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Curve Tomorrow, HPM Executive and HLTH Community, alongside over 18+ program and ecosystem partners and support from various State and Federal Government Departments and Agencies.