Meet the Team

Paul Venables has an enviable track record of bringing IT innovation to healthcare.

Paul can claim a 50+ year career in informatics, taking roles with multinational companies before becoming a founding shareholder and Director of a highly successful Australian Healthcare software company, where he remained for 16 years.

In that time Paul helped the company grow into an international success story before retiring in early 2016. Paul continues to actively maintain his interest in the use of technology to improve healthcare delivery, with a particular interest in improving communication between Patients and Staff in the health sector.

Patient Connect and Staff Connect are aligned with that vision.

Andrew Cockayne is Director of Connected Health and Managing Director of our part owner and sister company, Connected Tech Group.

Andrew is the architect of Patient Connect and Staff Connect software and continues to be the driver behind its future development direction. He initially introduced it to healthcare markets in England and Ireland and is also a key figure in its introduction to Australia and Asia Pacific regions.

Andrew spent his early career in UK central government, including developing policy at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.

He went on to work in operational delivery and strategy roles in industry, in social care and in the UK National Health Service.

Andrew O’Callaghan is an experienced software development team leader in IT with an excellent track record gained from experience working across a number of industries in Australia and overseas

Andrew’s Health industry experience includes major projects for SA Health and Hong Kong Hospital Authority; along with roles at Saab Systems, Tenix Defence, Department for Environment & Heritage and DXC Australia.

Andrew’s role with Connected Health is to manage software developments focussed towards Australian market requirements such a Coordinated Care module that primarily arose to meet the Commonwealth Healthcare home initiative but has been extended for much broader applicability.