Company overview ยท September 2026
SmartHeal turns the clinical device already in the clinician's hand into a clinical grade assessment tool. The assessment, the measurement, the photos and the evidence based record are done in seconds instead of 25 minutes.
SmartHeal is an Australian owned health technology company. The product runs on a standard smartphone the clinician already has, with nothing to issue, carry, calibrate or maintain, and one standard record and photo set travels with the patient between roles of care. The intellectual property is Australian owned, a patent application has been filed in Australia, and data is hosted in Australia.
No hardware. No attachments. No calibration stickers. The clinician reviews and accepts every output.
The problem
- Chronic wounds affect more than 450,000 Australians and cost the health system A$9.8B a year.
- Wounds are still measured by hand with a paper ruler, so two clinicians assessing the same wound record two different sizes.
- Without an objective baseline, nobody can tell whether a wound is healing, and 85% of assessments end up clinically inappropriate.
- The cost of getting it wrong is stalled healing, avoidable hospital admission and preventable amputation.
The solution
STEP 1
Photograph
One photo on a standard clinical device, at the bedside or in the community.
STEP 2
Measure
AI returns length, width, area and perimeter, plus a structured TIME assessment.
STEP 3
Clinician accepts
The clinician edits or overrides anything, then accepts. Nothing is saved without them.
STEP 4
Record
Report generates for handover and audit, and the healing trajectory builds over time.
- Hardware free. The established products need a bracket, a marker sticker or a dedicated device. We need none of them.
- Human in the loop by design. Explainable output, full clinician override, complete audit trail.
- Data handling. Encrypted, with tenant isolation, hosted onshore.
- Currently selling as a clinical decision support system. Patent pending.
Team
Santosh Kaur
Founder & CEO. 17 years in healthcare as a doctor and nurse. Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospital.
Dave C.
Chief Technology Officer. 25 years in technology, and has founded and led technology businesses. Full stack AI, backend and mobile.
Ruds K.
Chief Operating Officer. Managed a team of 200 as COO.
Advisors
Prof Fiona Wood AM
Burns and wound care
Hon. Jaala Pulford
Former Minister for Innovation
Alexander Gosling AM
Commercial and partnerships
Dr Michelle Barakat-Johnson
Clinical wound care
Dr R.S. Kumar
Wound care, Asia Pacific
Rita Arrigo
AI and digital health
Santosh Kaur
Founder & CEO, SmartHeal
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA