Digital Health Week 2026 showcased Professor Peter Steele from the University of Melbourne. He framed AI as something to implement through front end Learning Health System work. LHS lets health servic...
Whakarongorau Aotearoa in New Zealand will develop an AI concierge triage and navigation platform to improve access to mental health and addictions support nationwide. The project will receive matchin...
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...
In Australia, mobile devices are central to health services. Clinicians use them to access records, document care and coordinate tasks across wards and facilities. When one device fails, care teams sl...
The Waiting Time Action Plan 2026 has been published by the Irish Department of Health and the HSE to cut waiting times for inpatient and outpatient care. It outlines six targets under three themes: r...
The Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) has lodged a submission to a Senate inquiry opposing CSIRO job cuts and calling for more funding for the Australian eHealth Research Centre. It argu...
Australia's health and care systems now rely on virtual care, telehealth and tech-enabled services. Traditional clinical governance has guided safety and quality in hospitals and clinics, but it misse...
GPs in Australia are stepping up to counter medical misinformation online. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and other health voices are warning patients about misleading o...
Generative AI for health is moving from labs to real use. OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a health focused version that can connect to medical records and wellness apps, upload diagnostic imaging...
Apple Watch hypertension alerts are live across Australia. The feature runs in the background and uses the optical heart sensor to track how blood vessels respond to each heartbeat. It analyses data o...
AI scribes reached real scale in Australian clinics during 2025. Lyrebird, the notes first mover, saw about a quarter of Australian GPs using an AI scribe by mid 2025, turning a once visionary idea in...
A team of Australian researchers, backed by the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI, built Humanity’s Last Exam, a rigorous benchmark of 2500 questions across maths, humanities and natural sciences. Eac...
St Vincents Health Network Sydney has appointed Dr Chris Robinson as National Chief Medical Officer. He previously led as Medibank’s Chief Medical Officer for Customer, where he helped redesign mental...
Apple Watch will now offer hypertension alerts in Australia after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the feature in December. Apple expects more than one million people with undiagnosed hyp...
A webinar marking global Data Privacy Day warned governance hasn’t kept pace with AI adoption in health care. AI is now embedded in health tools from EHRs to coding and documentation workflows, often...
AI adoption in Australian healthcare is lagging, even with regulator approved tools available internationally. Few AI tools are used in routine patient care. Barriers include how AI fits into busy cli...
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...
