We’re building a digitally connected health ecosystem, where predictive data, precision tools and virtual models transform how care is delivered, accessed and scaled. From hospital systems to handheld devices, our precinct is helping shape the future of healthcare.
Data + Devices =
Smarter Care
Innovation & Research Strengths
Our digital health ecosystem supports smarter, faster and more personalised care across a range of services. We’re working with clinicians, data scientists, startups and health administrators to improve outcomes and drive efficiency.
Core capabilities include:
- Virtual care, remote monitoring and wearable integration
- Precision medicine and genomics
- Telehealth and clinician communication platforms
- Predictive analytics and point-of-care diagnostics
- Digital workflow automation to reduce admin and improve productivity
- Medical education tools and hospital demand management
This innovation is driven by leading teams and platforms within this precinct, including:
- Gold Coast Health’s Transformation and Digital Services team, delivering system-wide improvements across hospitals and co-designing with the best external innovators
- Datarwe, a clinical data engine powering predictive tools and precision medicine
- Griffith University School of ICT, advancing healthcare AI
- Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC), creating micro-devices for diagnostics
- Australian Centre for Precision Health (PRECISE), digital twins and digital solutions for personalised care and rehab
- A network of clinicians across public and private care working on real-world testing and deployment
Global Industry & Research Connections
Innovation thrives through collaboration
We work with industry pioneers and agile startups to take healthtech from idea to implementation. Partners include:
Datarwe
Powering predictive tools from real-world clinical data
Foxo
Unified clinician communication via QR-code tools
Lyrebird Health
Ambient listening and medical scribing
Healthcare Logic
Hospital system visualisation platform
From Concept to Commercialisation
We don’t just support innovation. We help launch it.
Whether you’re developing a new platform or refining a digital health tool, we provide clear pathways from idea to adoption. We support you through testing, validation and scale.
We offer:
- Concept Development & FeasibiityLet’s explore your next step
We offer digital health innovators a comprehensive launchpad to move from concept to clinically validated, market-ready solutions. We support:
- Rapid software prototyping, algorithm development, and cloud integration via Griffith PRECISE digital health labs
- Co-design with clinicians, patients, and health stakeholders to ensure user-centred, clinically relevant design
- Simulated clinical environments for workflow validation, interoperability, and early data capture
- Guidance on data governance, privacy compliance, and SaMD regulatory frameworks (e.g. TGA)
- Connections to clinical and technical advisors to assess integration pathways and unmet needs
- IP strategy, licensing, and feasibility support through Griffith Enterprise
- Business model validation via programs like NextGen, LuminaX, and AmplifyTech
- Access to seed funding, grants, and investor networks
- Market research and competitive analysis for product positioning
- Cybersecurity and human factors expertise to ensure safety and usability
We help you refine, validate, and launch digital health solutions with clinical impact and commercial potential.
- Usability Testing & Iterative DevelopmentLet’s explore your next step
We help digital health companies refine and validate solutions through rigorous usability testing, secure software development, and clinical integration support. We offer:
- Access to simulated clinical environments and operational IT systems for workflow and interoperability testing
- Human factors and usability assessments with clinicians, patients, and end users
- Cybersecurity risk assessments and data privacy compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, Australian Privacy Act)
- Support with software design controls, documentation, and quality systems aligned to regulatory standards
- DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and agile support for continuous development and deployment
- Connections to clinical pilot partners and early adopters for real-world feedback
- Data validation and analytics refinement for AI and data-driven tools
- Early regulatory engagement to align software validation and clinical evidence requirements
- Guidance on reimbursement frameworks and payer strategies
- Support in securing funding for pilots, development, and commercialisation
We help you optimise usability, ensure compliance, and prepare for clinical validation and market success.
- Clinical Validation & Regulatory ComplianceLet’s explore your next step
We help digital health companies generate the clinical evidence and regulatory documentation needed for approval, adoption, and scale. We offer:
- Real-world validation through embedded testbeds at Gold Coast University Hospital and Griffith Health Clinics
- Support for TGA SaMD, FDA 510(k), CE marking, and ISO 13485-aligned quality systems
- Access to Gold Coast Health’s nationally accredited HREC and Research Governance Office for streamlined, multi-site ethics review
- Longitudinal data capture via integration with hospital systems and registries
- Support for pilot and observational study design, management, and outcomes tracking
- Connections to clinical trial partners and digital health advisors
- Post-trial analysis of clinical, behavioural, and economic outcomes to support payer value cases
- Guidance on cybersecurity and data security compliance
- Support for technical documentation, publication strategies, and clinical adoption planning
- Access to translational researchers and commercial experts to package evidence for regulators and investors
We help you validate, comply, and scale with confidence.
- Scalability & Quality AssuranceLet’s explore your next step
As digital health solutions evolve beyond validation, we can provide the infrastructure and expertise to support secure and scalable deployment. We can:
- Support robust software development and deployment using CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and version control
- Guide the development of quality management systems aligned with ISO 13485 and IEC 62304 for SaMD
- Facilitate cybersecurity audits and data protection planning to meet HIPAA, GDPR, and Australian Privacy Act standards
- Assist with interoperability testing, EMR integration, and compliance with HL7/FHIR and clinical workflows
- Provide access to testing environments for performance, stress, and compatibility testing
- Connect you with clinical and technical partners for deployment and onboarding
- Help establish post-market surveillance and incident response frameworks for compliance
- Advise on licensing models, SLAs, and onboarding strategies
- Support access to scaling grants, enterprise funding, and export-readiness programs
- Facilitate engagement with procurement and health system integrators for full-scale implementation
We help you scale confidently, securely, and be ready for wide clinical adoption.
- Market Access & Health Systems IntegrationLet’s explore your next step
We help digital health companies achieve large-scale adoption, reimbursement success, and long-term commercial growth. We can:
- Facilitate engagement with clinicians, procurement teams, and health executives via the Gold Coast Health Innovation Office
- Connect you with health economics and reimbursement experts for pricing strategies and payer submissions
- Enable real-world deployment and outcomes tracking in hospital and community testbeds
- Support post-market obligations, including data reporting, software updates, and user support systems
- Link you to export pathways and global markets through Trade & Investment Queensland and INVEST Gold Coast
- Provide access to grants, investors, and national programs via MTPConnect and Life Sciences Queensland
- Assist with go-to-market strategies across public, private, and direct-to-consumer channels
- Support integration with EMRs, telehealth, and digital ecosystems
- Help with branding, communication, and procurement readiness
- Build strategic partnerships with health providers, distributors, and service organisations
We empower digital health companies to move confidently from pilot to scale, locally and globally.
We offer digital health innovators a comprehensive launchpad to move from concept to clinically validated, market-ready solutions. We support:
- Rapid software prototyping, algorithm development, and cloud integration via Griffith PRECISE digital health labs
- Co-design with clinicians, patients, and health stakeholders to ensure user-centred, clinically relevant design
- Simulated clinical environments for workflow validation, interoperability, and early data capture
- Guidance on data governance, privacy compliance, and SaMD regulatory frameworks (e.g. TGA)
- Connections to clinical and technical advisors to assess integration pathways and unmet needs
- IP strategy, licensing, and feasibility support through Griffith Enterprise
- Business model validation via programs like NextGen, LuminaX, and AmplifyTech
- Access to seed funding, grants, and investor networks
- Market research and competitive analysis for product positioning
- Cybersecurity and human factors expertise to ensure safety and usability
We help you refine, validate, and launch digital health solutions with clinical impact and commercial potential.
We help digital health companies refine and validate solutions through rigorous usability testing, secure software development, and clinical integration support. We offer:
- Access to simulated clinical environments and operational IT systems for workflow and interoperability testing
- Human factors and usability assessments with clinicians, patients, and end users
- Cybersecurity risk assessments and data privacy compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, Australian Privacy Act)
- Support with software design controls, documentation, and quality systems aligned to regulatory standards
- DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and agile support for continuous development and deployment
- Connections to clinical pilot partners and early adopters for real-world feedback
- Data validation and analytics refinement for AI and data-driven tools
- Early regulatory engagement to align software validation and clinical evidence requirements
- Guidance on reimbursement frameworks and payer strategies
- Support in securing funding for pilots, development, and commercialisation
We help you optimise usability, ensure compliance, and prepare for clinical validation and market success.
We help digital health companies generate the clinical evidence and regulatory documentation needed for approval, adoption, and scale. We offer:
- Real-world validation through embedded testbeds at Gold Coast University Hospital and Griffith Health Clinics
- Support for TGA SaMD, FDA 510(k), CE marking, and ISO 13485-aligned quality systems
- Access to Gold Coast Health’s nationally accredited HREC and Research Governance Office for streamlined, multi-site ethics review
- Longitudinal data capture via integration with hospital systems and registries
- Support for pilot and observational study design, management, and outcomes tracking
- Connections to clinical trial partners and digital health advisors
- Post-trial analysis of clinical, behavioural, and economic outcomes to support payer value cases
- Guidance on cybersecurity and data security compliance
- Support for technical documentation, publication strategies, and clinical adoption planning
- Access to translational researchers and commercial experts to package evidence for regulators and investors
We help you validate, comply, and scale with confidence.
As digital health solutions evolve beyond validation, we can provide the infrastructure and expertise to support secure and scalable deployment. We can:
- Support robust software development and deployment using CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and version control
- Guide the development of quality management systems aligned with ISO 13485 and IEC 62304 for SaMD
- Facilitate cybersecurity audits and data protection planning to meet HIPAA, GDPR, and Australian Privacy Act standards
- Assist with interoperability testing, EMR integration, and compliance with HL7/FHIR and clinical workflows
- Provide access to testing environments for performance, stress, and compatibility testing
- Connect you with clinical and technical partners for deployment and onboarding
- Help establish post-market surveillance and incident response frameworks for compliance
- Advise on licensing models, SLAs, and onboarding strategies
- Support access to scaling grants, enterprise funding, and export-readiness programs
- Facilitate engagement with procurement and health system integrators for full-scale implementation
We help you scale confidently, securely, and be ready for wide clinical adoption.
We help digital health companies achieve large-scale adoption, reimbursement success, and long-term commercial growth. We can:
- Facilitate engagement with clinicians, procurement teams, and health executives via the Gold Coast Health Innovation Office
- Connect you with health economics and reimbursement experts for pricing strategies and payer submissions
- Enable real-world deployment and outcomes tracking in hospital and community testbeds
- Support post-market obligations, including data reporting, software updates, and user support systems
- Link you to export pathways and global markets through Trade & Investment Queensland and INVEST Gold Coast
- Provide access to grants, investors, and national programs via MTPConnect and Life Sciences Queensland
- Assist with go-to-market strategies across public, private, and direct-to-consumer channels
- Support integration with EMRs, telehealth, and digital ecosystems
- Help with branding, communication, and procurement readiness
- Build strategic partnerships with health providers, distributors, and service organisations
We empower digital health companies to move confidently from pilot to scale, locally and globally.
Purpose-Built Infrastructure
We offer end-to-end support for digital health and virtual care solutions:
- Cohort Innovation Space – home to digital health startups, AI labs and data science ventures
- Clinical trial partners – for real-time evaluation of virtual and digital tools
- Integration-ready hospital systems – with clinicians and researchers co-located
Talent & Workforce Pipeline
Future-ready biotech talent is right here and ready to collaborate.
We’re building the digital health workforce of the future. One that blends clinical insight, data science, and tech innovation.
Our partners across Griffith University, Gold Coast Health, private hospitals, and Cohort Innovation Space work together to provide:
- Student placements and internships in digital health, AI, and clinical informatics
- Research collaborations spanning health data science, software engineering and virtual care
- Access to graduates and early-career professionals with cross-disciplinary expertise
- Tailored training and work-integrated learning programs co-designed with industry and healthcare partners
From coding to clinical care, we help you connect with the talent shaping tomorrow’s health solutions.
Gold Coast Advantage
Australia’s lifestyle capital is now a global biotech destination.
The Gold Coast is more than a lifestyle city, it’s a nationally recognised leader in digital health innovation, offering the infrastructure, collaboration and clinical access to turn ideas into impact.
- Integrated ecosystem co-location with hospitals, universities and industry makes real-world testing and collaboration seamless.
- Digitally progressive health system where Gold Coast Health leads nationally in virtual care, predictive tools and clinician-designed tech.
- Innovation-ready infrastructure with access to purpose-built spaces at Cohort, Lumina and across the precinct supports rapid development and scaling.
- A growing tech-health workforce and an environment that attracts and retains top talent.
Become part of a growing global
Digital Health Ecosystem?
GCHKP
Success Stories
Come and experience the ecosystem they’ve dropped themselves into, it’s incredibly powerful because of the people that are coming, the people you have access to, and the athletes you have access to. It’s not just an environment of opportunity, it’s incredibly positive. If you came and experienced that ecosystem, you’d find those two major pillars: access, and a really positive environment.
Clare Minahan – Associate Professor, Griffith University
When I think about the number of elite athletes we have at Griffith University, right here on our doorstep, and the way we can connect sports tech companies directly to them, it’s incredible. Add to that the semi-professional athletes at the Southport Sharks and the fact that sport is in the Gold Coast’s DNA. We’re so lucky to have an innovation precinct purpose-built to support sports tech, it’s a game changer.
Craig Rowsell – Director, Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct
The 2018 Commonwealth Games put us on the world stage for sport and innovation, and one thing about the Gold Coast is, once we’re on the world stage, we don’t get off it. That momentum sparked lasting legacies like the Health and Knowledge Precinct, along with other high-performance centres across the city. It all feeds off each other, and that’s how the best in sports tech find their way to the Gold Coast.
Tom Tate – Gold Coast Mayor
As a student passionate about advanced medical research and its potential to transform lives, the Precinct offers an ideal environment for connecting with like-minded and leading individuals. The people here are proactive, always ready to offer support and inspiration, making it a fantastic place for someone like me who is just starting.
Dennis Nguyen – Student
Griffith University
Coming back from the US, where we work very closely with the world-renowned Texas Heart Institute, to see the expansion of the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct made it really attractive for us to bring our technology back here to work with a world-leading laboratory at Griffith.
