Ai In Healthcare

NSW Health is accelerating its AI push with more than 450 AI initiatives in flight across the system, according to eHealth NSW chief executive Richard Taggart, spoke at Australian Healthcare Week. He...

Health NZ's clinical director of the AI Laboratory, Dr Cheng Kai Jin, told Australian Healthcare Week that AI now spans risk scoring, machine vision and generative tools. Governance is central, with o...

The International AI Summit will be held in Dublin on 14 October 2026 as part of Ireland’s presidency of the European Union. The event is expected to attract more than 1,000 attendees including invest...

The GEMINI trial evaluated Mia v3, an AI mammography tool from Kheiron Medical Technologies now part of DeepHealth, within NHS Grampian's routine breast screening. The study tested 17 deployment optio...

Former Health Minister Greg Hunt addressed Australian Healthcare Week in Sydney to outline four megatrends set to redefine health systems: genomics, regenerative medicine, artificial intelligence and...

At the Healthcare 2040 Expo in Sydney, health AI experts pressed governments to prioritise governance and data foundations rather than just new tools. A MIT Media Lab study cited by speakers suggested...

CyberCX analysed more than 100 serious incidents across Australia and New Zealand in 2025. Separately, Threat Labs Healthcare 2026 used anonymised Netskope data from healthcare customers worldwide bet...

A rapid pre publication study in Nature Medicine shows ChatGPT Health failed to recognise emergency medical scenarios in more than half of the tested cases. Researchers used 60 medical scenarios acros...

UK researchers report that pairing an AI driven analysis with an electronic stethoscope can identify clinically significant valvular heart disease more quickly and cheaply. In a multi centre study, 17...

A free webinar on patient-side AI agents is being hosted by Health Services Daily and TMR for Wednesday 25 March at 3 pm AEDT. The session features Bettina McMahon, CEO of Healthdirect; GP Dr Emily Ki...

The 2025 Digital Health Festival will be held in Melbourne on 20–21 May, gathering RACGP leaders and hundreds of health tech professionals to discuss transforming care through stronger GP digital conn...

Carepatron, a New Zealand health tech, secured NZ$250,000 from the Maori Development Fund to accelerate its AI Clinical Support Co-Pilot, a tool embedded in practice management software to speed up ad...

Australian startup i-scribe offers a clinician-led AI medical scribe. It uses ambient listening to generate notes, letters and summaries in real time. Dr Emily Powell, the chief medical officer, helps...

A health media editor highlights growing anxiety about artificial intelligence in health work. A circulating paper titled A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI argues that friendly, con...

AI in Australian healthtech is reaching a tipping point as experts warn of risks beyond simple accuracy. A Cornell University arXiv paper on algorithmic sycophancy argues that generative AI can bias r...

A University of Sydney study, published in Lancet Primary Care, finds dermatology AI tools misdiagnose skin cancer in people with darker skin tones because training data lacks representation. The issu...

A Danish study led by psychiatrists at Aarhus University and published in Acta Psychiatr Scand analysed digital health records from about 54,000 patients with diagnosed mental illness. The team found...

Australia has launched its largest ever Parkinson’s disease study, analysing baseline data from the Australian Parkinson’s Genetics Study (APGS). The cohort includes 10,929 Australians with self-repor...

The Lancet has launched a global commission on Skin Health. The work is led by the International League of Dermatological Societies. Australian experts Victoria Mar and Adriene Lee are among the membe...

University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a cross-border partnership focused on applied AI. The pact links CeADAR at UCD with Momentu...