Aged care assessments go AI in Australia
Australia’s aged care assessments for at home support now rely on a computer algorithm. The system weights answers, scores them, and converts them into numbers that decide eligibility and funding leve...
Australia’s aged care assessments for at home support now rely on a computer algorithm. The system weights answers, scores them, and converts them into numbers that decide eligibility and funding leve...
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...
ChatGPT Health was launched in early January 2026. It allows patients to upload medical records for AI analysis and uses the data to interpret recent test results, help patients prepare for appointmen...
The NHS England has given the go ahead to 19 ambient voice scribes that listen to consultations and produce real time clinical notes. The aim is to free doctors from routine note taking so they can fo...
Dedalus ANZ has appointed Dr Vinod Seetharaman as Chief Medical Officer. He brings 23 years of medical and leadership experience. The move aligns with a push to transform care beyond treatment, emphas...
AI hype in health care meets real limits. Google’s AI Overviews misread a calendar example, showing reliability gaps. OpenAI markets ChatGPT Health as a tool to help people understand health and welln...
The United Arab Emirates is building a national AI enabled health ecosystem focused on prediction, prevention and personalisation. The effort rests on unified data assets, population genomics and a re...
The National Reconstruction Fund, Australia’s sovereign investor in manufacturing capability, has taken a $20 million preferred equity stake in Omniscient Neurotechnology. The Sydney‑founded company u...
New modelling from Dexcom shows publicly funded continuous glucose monitors for type 1 diabetes in New Zealand have opened access to more than 19,000 people in the first year since October 2024. The p...
Valentia Technologies has launched OctansCare, a modular digital front door that is already live in New Zealand. Built on cloud-enabled microservices, it acts as a connectivity layer above existing Pr...
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 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...
A US health service study published in JAMA Network Open shows emoji use in electronic health record notes is widespread. Researchers found 372 distinct emojis across 4,162 notes created between 2020...
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...
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...
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...
Potentia Capital has acquired HotDoc for about 250 million dollars. The deal price sits just over eight times revenue and at least 30 times EBITDA. HotDoc runs a GP booking platform used by patients a...
OpenAI has begun rolling out ChatGPT Health in Australia, starting with a limited number of early users. The feature will expand to more users on a waitlist soon and broadly in February. ChatGPT Healt...
The Western Australian government is investing $700,000 in an AI pilot to improve hospital patient flow. The project is a partnership between the Office of Digital Government and WA Health. It aims to...
Australian research organisations Orygen and the University of Melbourne have secured $14 million in funding from Wellcome to expand their digital mental health platform, MOST-Nexus. This platform bui...