It was during his surgical training that Tom Kelly realised something was deeply broken in the healthcare system. “In outpatient clinics you’d have three or four doctors seeing a hundred patients in a few hours,” he recalls. “So much of the work was just getting through paperwork – figuring out what tests had been done, writing letters, filling in forms. All of it got in the way of actually doing what we were trained to do: making a diagnosis and treating the patient.”

Rather than accept that mountain of admin as inevitable, Kelly did something unusual for a junior doctor: he pressed pause on his surgical career and founded a tech start-up.

That gamble is paying off.

The Melbourne-based doctor is chief executive of Heidi Health, which has just closed a $US65 million ($98.5 million) Seri

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