A little about my backgroundAs a child, I have always had a strong interest in high technology and innovation, in particular, being excited about the potential of computers. The first programming language I self-taught myself was QBasic as part of Microsoft DOS on an Intel 286 bulky laptop my father brought home from his workplace.
During high school, I self-taught myself how to program using Qbasic to make simple games for personal entertainment and algorithms to help me with school work. As a VCE graduate, I was shortlisted for entrance into medical school at various universities outside of Melbourne, Australia. Being a young man who preferred to stay with my parents with enjoying all the luxuries, I opted out of studying medicine interstate and instead, chose to study physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne. I immensely enjoyed studying physiotherapy and as a new graduate, went straight into private practice. My interest in primary care and musculoskeletal medicine led me to startup a solo physiotherapy practice within a local GP clinic as a new graduate. At the time, faxes were commonly used to communicate between GPs and other health professionals, Medicare payment processing was conducted manually with an imprinter, and physiotherapists were using pen and paper to record clinical notes and prescribe stick figure home exercise programs for their patients. As a result of these frustrations, I partnered up with my high school mate who was a computer programmer and we built and pioneered the world's first web browser practice management software for allied health professionals. Key features included digital clinical note taking, appointment bookings and payments. We leveraged this platform to build a statewide network of allied health services within GP clinics and closed deals with Healthscope Limited and Medi7 Group of Medical Centres. From grassroot experiences of applying technology in primary care, I came to the self-realisation that I had a knack for this. From this point on, I have devoted my career to being at the intersection of primary healthcare and cutting edge technology. Since then, I have owned my own sports & musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice, and and treated over 25,000 patients. In addition, I have successfully established a number of health tech related startups, consulted and advised for healthcare peak bodies, healthcare businesses and health IT corporations. Recently, I fell in love with programming, so I deferred the Master of Computer Science and committed to a full time intensive and “hands-on” course at Academy Xi to become a full stack software engineer. I am now also a professsional software engineer working on an enterprise scale SaaS CRM system for an ASX listed tech company as my day job. I was an awardee of the 40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians 2020 for the category "Science & Medicine". Connect with me via LinkedIn here |