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Medication app helps make life easier
By Josh Jennings

7 July 2018 — 12:15am
MedAdvisor founder Josh Swinnerton is excited about the Australian company's international future.
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Software engineer Josh Swinnerton’s health tech startup MedAdvisor doesn't have a rosy origin story but the company has blossomed into something bright all the same.
Swinnerton conceived the idea for medication management app MedAdvisor in reaction to his mothers’ experience with arthritis and Parkinson’s disease.
His mum was simultaneously managing more than 10 medications and Swinnerton recognised how onerous a juggling act it was.
He created an app that could notify her when she needed a script refill and when her medication was low.

Now a lot of people are using the app for the same sorts of reasons.
Swinnerton says it's heartening to hear first-hand stories from the end-users.
“Compared to working in the finance sector or something, it feels good to be having that kind of positive benefit on something as important as their health,” he says.
As founder and chief product office, Swinnerton says his overarching role is to ensure the product team is running smoothly. With many heads motoring frenetically together at MedAdvisor, the post-it notes tend to go everywhere.
“The office is covered in whiteboards,” Swinnerton says.

“Like a lot of businesses, we have hundreds of ideas and hundreds of requests from clients or partners who’d like us to do this or add that.”
Swinnerton, whose qualifications include a Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Graduate Certificate of Product Engineering and Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has held a number of senior software engineering positions.
He also founded ergonomics software company DeskActive before launching MedAdvisor in 2012. This year the app reached one million connected users.
Swinnerton says good health tech start ups are attracting a lot of industry attention and this bodes well for his current goals to expand MedAdvisor internationally.
“We’re now taking overseas expansion very seriously,” he says. “We’re getting some runs on the board with our first overseas clients and the best markets.

“As an Australian startup, seeing that we can deliver benefit in other countries and be world-leading in what we do is very exciting.”