Since 2015, the Innovation & Collaboration Centre has supported early-stage startups through providing workspace, mentoring and funding. Read more about our staff and our startups.

The Innovation & Collaboration Centre is home to Venture Catalyst and the state's first space incubator program Venture Catalyst Space. These programs are designed to help founders start their business.

The ICC holds regular feature events on a range of cutting-edge topics for the ICC community and the public, community events for ICC startups, industry experts and other close partners and affiliates, and internal events exclusively for ICC startups.

Precision Digital Health

Precision Digital Health Platform was founded by Dr Michelle King-Okoye while pursuing her PhD in Health Sciences. Conducting research with communities greatly impacted by cancer and chronic diseases - whose voices are under-reported – highlighted the urgent need for this social enterprise. This company is first of its kind with a mission focused on empowering marginalised voices through culturally safe and tech-enabled solutions.

 
  • Co-creating solutions with the community leveraging lived experiences
  • Co-designed digital communication and digital engagement
  • Unique datasets and portals that capture cancer care experiences/data along diverse care pathways
  • AI driven guidance informed by diverse community beliefs and experiences.

The technology is built around AI algorithms, which were informed by and generated from empirical research capturing the lived cancer experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. This enables personalised symptom appraisal, interpretation and tracking, while providing culturally appropriate support resources to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment. Natural Language Processing (NLP) ensures language adaptation that is culturally sensitive, and a cloud-based infrastructure supports data security, telehealth and digital integration, and scalability.

The potential markets are local and international community organisations, health-focused institutions and charities. These include a refugee and migrant centre to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Precision Digital Health is globally focused and seeking partnerships with multi-cultural community organisations, health and cancer institutions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean and developing countries. Currently, there are organisations that have expressed their desire to partner with Precision Digital Health based on a shared vision.

Dr Michelle King-Okoye

Dr Michelle King-Okoye

Founder

iccadmin@unisa.edu.au

(08) 8302 7368

 

 

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