« Many maternity units have closed in Australia in the last 15 years, in fact about 41% of them, mainly in rural, regional and remote Australia », said on 9 July, 2018 to Health and Tech Intelligence  Edwina Sharrock, a midwife from Tamworth (New South Wales) who founded Birth Beat, a mobile application accepted earlier this year into the health tech program of Slingshot, the country’s leading health technology accelerator.