[Music plays and an image appears of the Prize for New Innovators medallion in the centre screen, and text appears beneath: Dr Nikhilesh Bappoo, BAICD PHD MPE BPHIL (HONS)
[Images move through to show a close view of the Veintech ultrasound machine, then the Lubdub heart sensor, and then a rear view of Dr Nikhilesh Bappoo working on a computer]
Dr Nikhilesh Bappoo: Imagine we had a world where no life is lost because health care was too complex, too out of reach, or too late.
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How could technology play a role in making health care more equitable for any patient, for any health care worker?
[Image changes to show Nikhilesh talking to the camera, and the medallion and text appears: Dr Nikhilesh Bappoo]
My name is Nikhilesh Bappoo. I am CEO and Co-Founder of VeinTech and Co-Founder at Lubdub.
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I am a medical technology innovator.
[Images move through to show views of a tourniquet being tightened on an arm while a health care clinician tries to find a vein]
Cannulation is the most common invasive medical procedure in health care.
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The fail rate is surprisingly high primarily due to the inability to see or feel a vein.
[Images move through to show views of Nikhilesh using the Veintech ultrasound on a clinician’s arm, and demonstrating to another clinician]
We have developed in Australia a hand held device that uses ultrasound technology.
[Images move through to show a close view of the Veintech ultrasound equipment, Nikhilesh using it on a clinician’s arm, and then Nikhilesh talking to the camera]
It collects a blueprint, it maps it out on the screen and it provides a result that is very simple to interpret.
[Image changes to show a view of the veins in the arms on a computer screen, and then the image changes to show Nikhilesh and another clinician looking at the computer screen]
A bit like a runway that the plane needs to land on we’re providing a runway of veins that the clinician can land their needle into.
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So, VeinTech is finding the right vein first time every time.
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Lubdub was formed with the goal of creating technologies that better help map your heart health.
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Cardiac health has been a reactive part of medicine to date.
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About half of the patients that will present to the Emergency Department with heart failure or other heart conditions will have telltale symptoms for up to five years before that happened.
[Images move through to show Nikhilesh and his colleague working on a computer, the Lubdub app on a Smartphone, and then Nikhilesh and another colleague looking at the Lubdub sensor]
Lubdub provides data that is collected in real time. It’s all connected to a mobile phone that is then interfaced with a web page for the clinician.
[Camera zooms in on them both looking at the sensor and talking together]
All of it is with the idea of reducing that time between the onset of symptoms and the commencement of treatment.
[Images move through to show Nikhilesh talking to the camera, a close view of the Lubdub sensor, Nikhilesh and a colleague looking at the sensor]
It takes a village to build a start up, taking great science, building great technology and turning that technology in products that can be used every day by everyone.
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What unifies all of us is purpose to make an impact in health care.
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I am incredibly honoured to receive the Prize for New Innovators.
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It gives me a license to go bigger so that great science can make it out into the real world.
[Music plays and the image changes to show the Prize for New Innovators medallion on the left, the Australian Government Coat of Arms on the bottom right, and text appears in the centre: 2025 Prize for New Innovators]
