Entrepreneurial Story: Coviu Brings Virtual Hope to Speech Pathology Patients

Building Partnerships recipient Coviu is helping speech pathology patients find their voice virtually across NSW and soon, the world.

Coviu is a CSIRO spin-out and startup selling web-based video consultation software solutions to the Australian healthcare market.

Many Australians, from those in rural and remote areas to aged care residents, struggle to access local speech pathology services. Until now, no technology has delivered speech pathology assessments via video to the same level as in-person assessments.

Coviu received the Building Partnerships grant to collaborate with Pearson Australia Group and speech pathologists from the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, creating fairer access to speech pathology services through a custom solution based on Coviu’s platform. They are trialing a program linking patients and speech pathologists across city and country NSW. The strong results have attracted interest from speech pathologists in Australia, the US, and Europe, eager to adopt Coviu technology.

Beyond ensuring access to key speech pathology services, Coviu has supported doctors in delivering telemedicine appointments across Australia on a massive scale in response to COVID. On the day the Federal Government announced Telemedicine would be fully supported by Medicare, Coviu facilitated 400 appointments. Within weeks, doctors and health providers across Australia were using Coviu to support up to 25,000 appointments daily.

When doctors called, Coviu answered.

Source: Investment NSW