About Healthshare

Our Mission

Healthshare is an Australian national health initiative designed to provide better access to health expertise and improve the quality of health information online.

Healthshare's contributors include the most prestigious associations, leading brands, eminent hospitals and significant healthcare organisations and professional member organisations that represent Australia's foremost medical expertise. From beyondblue to Diabetes Australia to Sports Medicine Australia, Healthshare is bringing together diversity in thought leadership from the top minds in the healthcare field to provide consumers with multiple perspectives.

Our goal is to build Australia's leading interactive health network where Australians go to for quality health information and community support.

Why Healthshare Was Created

Personal experience helped the founders recognise that Internet searches result in vast information that is typically static, from questionable sources, highly fragmented, developed for an overseas audience and not necessarily relevant to you or your situation.

With this in mind they embarked on a mission: to use the Internet to enable people to better access health expertise and in return be more active and informed in their own healthcare and that of their loved ones.

How It Works

Healthshare provides a question and answer service for Australians to get answers from qualified local experts across over 360 topic areas. The service operates in a community environment which provides support and encouragement.

Our Principles

We are guided by two key principles:

• Transparency: We want people to know exactly who is providing the health information. That way our members can put the answer into context and determine how much credibility to attribute to it.
• Openness: To provide the most authentic, comprehensive and valuable user experience, our philosophy is to keep the site as 'open' as possible to ideas, feedback, opinions and comments. In return we will build vibrant health communities based on trust and credibility, with users returning to the site often to read different points of view and contribute their own health experiences

Leadership Team

Healthshare is managed by a passionate and dedicated team that believe Healthshare is a positive force for anyone who faces a health challenge or just wants to improve their health.

Healthshare's leadership team is made up of executives from the Internet, FMCG, Healthcare, Advertising and Professional Services. Above all, the team are all Australian health consumers with decades of experience with the Australian healthcare system.

If you share Healthshare's vision and want to join our revolutionary organisation, please send your details into [email protected].