My Health Record

In January 2026 the AI health assistants ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare launched. These tools are purpose built to guide health decisions and are becoming the main way many people start thei...

Interoperability is no longer a buzzword. In Australia, the health system remains a patchwork of clinics using different software. This creates gaps when care is handed off between GPs, specialists an...

Dedalus topped Black Book Market Research’s 2026 State of Australian Healthcare IT evaluation, taking the most top rankings across 18 strategic-fit dimensions for Australian EMR platforms. Health serv...

The Sparked program, led by CSIRO, aims to standardise health data sharing through national FHIR standards. It has delivered multiple implementation guides, e-requesting tools for pathology and imagin...

The federal government has announced a two stage reform to how medicines are dispensed and tracked in Australia. In the first stage, all online and telehealth prescribers will upload details of a pati...

The Australian Medical Association argues interoperability in health IT must be compulsory and backed by enforcement. In a new report, the AMA warns that without mandated standards and penalties, data...

The Australian Medical Association has released a report that flags serious risks from Australia’s fragmented digital health systems. These systems are often isolated and use incompatible software, wh...

The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...

Australia is moving to a national medicines record that ties scripts to the My Health Record. Health minister Mark Butler announced two major reforms after a preventable overdose death: online telehea...

The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...

Black Book Market Research released the State of Australian Healthcare IT 2026. It assesses acute-care EMR and EHR platforms. Thirteen platforms were evaluated. Four hundred fifty four Australian hosp...

Australia’s Healthdirect launched 1800Medicare at the start of the year as part of a federal pledge to improve Healthdirect services under one national system. The new branding is still led by Healthd...

AI powered consumer health tools are set to reshape Australia’s health sector. ChatGPT Health is in trial with selected users, and Claude Health is expected to launch soon. The industry has long resis...

Australia has enacted reforms to My Health Record through the Health Legislation Amendment Act 2025. The changes make uploading mandatory for pathology and diagnostic imaging reports. From October 202...

Australia’s My Health Record has been modernised to give patients access to pathology results on the same day as their clinician. From March, patients can view limb X-ray reports immediately after upl...

The Telehealth Sector Working Group led by medicinal cannabis company Montu has urged the Australian Digital Health Agency and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to mandate telehealth sta...

The My Health Record system has been modernised to let patients access most pathology results on the day they see their clinician. Patients can also upload those results to AI tools like ChatGPT Healt...

Black Book Market Research’s State of Australian Healthcare IT 2026 examines which acute-care EMR and EHR platforms fit Australian health systems. It draws on 454 hospital and health service staff acr...

AI is moving fast. ChatGPT Health and Claude Health are already changing how patients interact with their data. In Australia, the Australian Digital Health Agency guides policy through the National Di...

Artificial intelligence tools are moving from pilot projects to day-to-day practice in Australian primary care. OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a platform that lets patients upload medical records...