Ai In Healthcare

An extra 387.4 million dollars will be allocated to CSIRO over the next four years, supplementing the 278 million previously announced through 2025 and CSIROs near 1 billion dollars in annual funding....

Interoperability in Australian health care is moving from planning to execution. The Australian Digital Health Agency reports that 47% of initiatives under the national digital health plan for 2023 to...

Singapore is moving to scale AI-enabled healthcare, led by a HealthTechX Asia session with Health Minister Tan Kiat How. He highlighted a super-aged society with more than 20 per cent of residents ove...

Heidi unveiled a purpose-built clinician lapel that can record and transcribe consults offline and now includes a new Heidi Evidence decision support layer. The hardware reveal occurred at a Melbourne...

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians in the United States as a free option for now, pitched as a secure clinical reasoning partner that draws on trusted medical sources to help with patient cons...

The Health Information Management Association of Australia will run the Privacy in Practice series during Privacy Awareness Week 2026 from 6 to 8 May. The program comprises three online sessions and a...

Health NZ’s BroPilot project is a culturally grounded adaptation of Microsoft Copilot developed by Troy Baker. The pilot sits within Haoura Māori Services and aims to reflect Māori values, whakaaro an...

Australian researchers from Flinders University argue that AI tools are not yet ready for wide deployment in healthcare. In a Science commentary, they respond to a US study that tested a large languag...

A Science commentary from Flinders University researchers responds to a US study that assessed AI diagnostic reasoning in emergency scenarios. The US work found OpenAI’s o1-preview correctly identifie...

SpacePort Australia and Aexa Aerospace have formed a joint venture named The Hamilton Project to develop a deductive medical AI model for use aboard spacecraft and space stations. The collaboration ai...

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is under scrutiny by the Australian National Audit Office for how it applies artificial intelligence to manage health provider non-compliance. DoHDA’s t...

The RACGP has urged the Australian National Audit Office to press DoHDA on the risks of using AI to monitor Medicare non-compliance. In an April 2026 submission, the college argued AI should be avoide...

Australian insurer Bupa released the 2026 Pulse Check, a national survey conducted with Quantum Market Research among 2000 Australians. The study shows social media is now a go to source for health co...

Australian health policy circles are weighing a licensing regime for doctors around the safe use of medical AI. The idea is in the thinking stage and would start with a compulsory AI training componen...

NiCE has announced a native integration between its CX AI platform CXone and Epic EHR. The update brings patient records and communications into a single AI powered interface that clinicians use every...

The Australian Association of Practice Management (AAPM) will participate in Health Tech X Asia, a conference in Singapore on May 6-7. AAPM chief executive Miranda Grace will be on site to emphasise h...

The Australian healthtech founder Atif Nisar is leading the integration of his MedTalk.co platform with Canberra Health Services to deliver a robust, industrialised healthcare solution. The collaborat...

Oracle has opened the Oracle AI Centre Sydney to support organisations across Australia and Oceania in testing early-stage AI in secured cloud spaces using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The health sect...