Clinical Decision Support

MedLuma has been rolled out by Medcast as an AI powered platform that delivers real time, context aware clinical answers from trusted sources. The system uses verified Australian guidelines including...

Health Services Daily hosted a webinar on patient-side AI agents and how they are reshaping Australian consultations. The panel included Healthdirect chief executive Bettina McMahon, GP Dr Emily Kirkp...

The OPTIMAS-GP trial is evaluating an online antimicrobial stewardship toolbox for general practitioners to use during patient consultations. Backed by RACGP, the five-year program unites researchers...

General practitioners are increasingly facing medicolegal scrutiny over who bears responsibility for chasing test results after referrals. Anthony Mennillo, head of claims and legal services at Miga,...

Dr Katrina Sanders, the chief medical officer of Aspen Medical, argues for governance of the AI stack in healthcare rather than evaluating AI tools in isolation. She notes that most AI systems are val...

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has asked the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission to suspend each board director and consider removing them, a move aimed at restoring gove...

Australia's syphilis outbreak has prompted a national response from ASHM, which has launched a National Syphilis Awareness Campaign to help healthcare workers detect infections earlier and expand test...

AI for Care, Ireland’s first national strategy dedicated to applying artificial intelligence in health and social care, was unveiled by Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. The plan targets four...

A major systematic review published in The Lancet Psychiatry evaluated 54 randomised controlled trials from 1980 to 2025, involving 2,477 participants, to test whether medicinal cannabis benefits ment...

A large multi centre study led by Emory University shows breast arterial calcification BAC visible on routine mammograms signals higher cardiovascular risk. Researchers analysed 123 762 women aged 40–...

A new blood test score named MAPI, the MetALD-ALD Prediction Index, distinguishes metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease from alcohol-driven injury in steatotic liver disease. It rel...

Gold Coast Health has signed a deal with Alcidion to roll out Miya Precision across its three hospitals and community health network. The end to end remote patient monitoring solution will link with G...

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...

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...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed the SAFE score, a five minute questionnaire designed to flag adolescents and young women at risk of endometriosis. The tool converts response...

The federal government has expanded access to health information in My Health Record under the Sharing by Default reforms. Patients can view limb x-ray reports as soon as they are uploaded. This week...

A US pediatrician reported in the New England Journal of Medicine a case where a mother refused all childhood vaccines after citing the CDC’s ongoing review of its guidance. The scene occurred at the...

AI has moved from theory to practice. The journey includes Turing's ideas and the test that bears his name. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess, marking a milestone in machine re...