Much of the medical world is steeped in old-fashioned processes — clinics still use fax machines while doctors use pagers and paper notes in hospitals.

These are processes Martin Seneviratne hopes to help revolutionise.

The 27-year-old is working as a junior doctor at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, but has plans to develop a "hybrid career" working as a physician, software developer and tech entrepreneur.

"I made a pitch around how I thought data analytics and machine learning within medicine could really impact how we deliver health care and make it accessible worldwide."

The pitch earned Dr Seneviratne selection as one of 50 young people from across the world to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, in January.

Each year, youth representatives are chosen from the global shapers community — an international network of city-based hubs led by people aged 20 to 30 who have been selected for their leadership potential, social impact initiatives and high achievements.

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They will join heads of state, business leaders, academics and leaders of industry, arts and culture at the forum to discuss social issues facing the world; this year's theme is "responsive and responsible leadership".

The only other young Australian chosen to attend is Abdullahi Alim, a tech entrepreneur in Perth who recently won a 2017 Queen's Young Leader Award.

It is only the second time young Australians have been chosen to attend the annual meeting.

"It feels like a Willy Wonka golden ticket situation; it's such a privilege to be going across," Dr Seneviratne said.

"The reason the WEF have invited these 50 young people is to try and get a genuine dialogue with the new generation.

"They try and create real opportunities to have a voice and say what you think."

Finding tech solutions for medicine

Dr Seneviratne is passionate about finding ways technology can better intersect with medicine.

He has an impressive resume — an undergraduate degree in physics and postgraduate medical degree — and will be heading to Stanford University on a John Monash Scholarship next year to study clinical informatics.

The course aims to train its students to be innovative and use technology, computer science and software to solve problems across the medical landscape.

He already has some experience in that space having co-developed an app for cancer patients that helps them record symptoms, better understand their diagnosis and connect them with medical literature and other people undergoing treatment.

"It's about automating or digitsing processes in medicine; how can we move away from paper into the 21st century in clinical medicine.

"What I'm really interested in is the next step.

"The question I'll be looking at is how do we use the huge volumes of data in medicine more effectively so we understand you as an individual when you come into the clinic and personalise care as much as possible."