My Health Story, a 2026 Melbourne Design Week Finalist

2026-01-27T15:55:27+11:00January 27, 2026|Blog, Events, Media|

Melbourne Design Week (MDW) is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and has grown since 2017 to become Australia’s premier design event, supported by the National Gallery of Victoria and the design community, which deliver events as part of the festival. The MHS team is thrilled to announce that it has been selected as a finalist and is very excited about the opportunity to present at the national level. MDW is an annual 11-day program [...]

Geelong Advertiser: Pain Turns into Runway Success Story

2025-11-02T12:55:18+11:00November 2, 2025|Blog, Media|

Misdiagnosed for more than four years after a 2007 accident, Soula and Theo Mantalvanos have fought on to develop a patient-driven health record system that is now an award winner, Cam Ward writes. The ingenuity that saw Soula and Theo Mantalvanos begin a new career after a devastating accident may soon be helping others facing a similar burden. The couple have run the Queenscliff Gallery for a decade, having been forced to give up their Melbourne graphic design [...]

My Health Story Wins Runway Incubator Cohort 16

2025-07-04T15:02:37+10:00July 4, 2025|Achievements, Blog, Health tech, Media|

It’s been an extraordinary 16 weeks participating in Runway’s incubator program. For My Health Story (MHS) founder Soula Mantalvanos and her partner, Theo, it was totally worth every minute of committing to learning, listening, studying, re-evaluating, reassessing, re-questioning, and enduring the moments of pain to reassure their vision for a global patient-driven health record. And reassurance they got, coming out as winners as judged by LaunchVic and Global Power Generation Australia of Runway’s Cohort [...]

My Health Story Success: Runway Incubator Program

2025-02-20T14:46:04+11:00February 20, 2025|Achievements, Blog, Media|

My Health Story couldn’t be more thrilled to be successful in their application to join Runway’s much-needed Incubator program Cohort #16, 2025. Soula Mantalvanos, founder of MHS, has been pursuing several funding and support opportunities since 2016 when her dream to change the fragmented care system began. It couldn’t have come in a better form than Runway – an Incubator program held within her Geelong, Victoria, Australia region. The best part is that her [...]

The Health Festival of Geelong – a Huge Success

2024-07-28T12:26:36+10:00July 27, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management, Media|

My Health Story (MHS) was thrilled to be invited as 'a fellow dedicated health care provider' to the inaugural Health Festival of Geelong last week. The event was a unique opportunity to focus on Health Promotion and increase health literacy. Organised by a team of clinicians, the Health Festival of Geelong was a chance for all stakeholders (patients, carers, professionals, allied healthcare workers, specialists, Government, and more) to discover resources in the region of Geelong Victoria, all in [...]

Digital Health Festival 2024 – Start Up Heaven

2024-05-13T09:46:11+10:00May 13, 2024|Blog, Health tech, Media|

What a thrilling two days at the Digital Health Festival 2024 (DHF) at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre! Soula and Theo Mantalvanos, founder and director of My Health Story (MHS), attended the event after being short-listed for the extraordinary opportunity of a booth in the Start-Up Arena. DHF is where 7,000 people whose primary interests and work are in healthcare and progressing the industry through innovation. In short, the DHF is the ultimate place for health-inspired ideas. In the first few hours, it became apparent that the idea of individuals self-managing their health information and coordinating their care was no longer foreign—the DHF audience was well-versed on the topic and eager for a tool to help them better arm and/or understand their patients and clients.

Come and see My Health Story at the Digital Health Festival May 7 – 8, 2024

2024-04-26T10:51:03+10:00April 26, 2024|Blog, Media|

The Digital Health Festival 2024 (DHF24) is just days away, and the My Health Story (MHS) team is getting ready to meet the health industry's movers and shakers. Will you be there? The event is 90% sold out. The DHF24 is all about the future of healthcare – that's why we're there.  As a start-up, MHS is there to present to the healthcare industry and meet possible partners. What is MHS looking for specifically? MHS wants to meet with leaders interested in patient-centred care and patient empowerment. To meet with groups, services, and employees in the healthcare industry that can implement MHS into healthcare, and by that, we mean:

My Health Story at the Digital Health Festival in 2024

2023-12-27T13:51:13+11:00December 27, 2023|Achievements, Blog, Health tech, Media|

The Digital Health Festival (DHF) is Australia's most important health transformation event. DHF is where health leaders meet to learn new skills, assess the latest solutions, network and form partnerships. It's also where they get the chance to meet a select group of 'trailblazing startups' who are out to revolutionise healthcare. My Health Story is thrilled to be accepted as one of these trailblazers presenting at the DHF24 event held 7 - 8 May at the Melbourne Convention [...]

The Hurting Strings – An Artist’s Story of Pain

2025-07-09T10:32:05+10:00September 18, 2023|Advocacy, Blog, Media|

The Hurting Strings, an award-winning documentary was created by Australian filmmaker Peter Lamont in 2014 and has had thousands of views resonating with so many people living with invisible illness. It is a little sad that the film still has so much meaning, in fact, it's still relevant so many years later. I truly wish it wasn't. 

Soula Mantalvanos on The Health Design Podcast

2023-08-07T13:17:49+10:00August 7, 2023|Blog, Media|

The Journal of Health Design Australia presents The Health Design Podcast (THDP) with Moyez Jiwa, who recently invited My Health Story's (MHS) founder, Soula Mantalvanos, to chat. THDP aims to feature interviews with the world's leading health design experts, including clinicians, designers, patients, authors and researchers. Their motto: Better health by design. In the podcast, Soula discusses her health experience, the problems that inspired her to build a health summarising resource, and why she believes it can help individuals receive the tailored care they need.  Listen up!

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