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Coronavirus has meant a massive boom in telehealth — one Australian start-up was ready – ABC News
The huge uptake in virtual doctor consultations has meant big business for one Australian telehealth company. Coviu, a business spun out of the CSIRO, has seen the growth it was expecting over five years in the space of just two weeks.
In mid-March, when most of us went into isolation, Silvia Pfeiffer was running on adrenaline and minimal sleep.
The telehealth start-up she’d been working on since being hired by the CSIRO in 2012 was suddenly part of the Federal Government’s strategy in fighting COVID-19.
Dr Pfeiffer is a computer scientist and the co-founder of Coviu, a healthcare videoconferencing platform.
A day after Health Minister Greg Hunt announced telehealth would become a Medicare item, the fledging company took of…
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