Clinical Decision Support

A large analysis of US electronic health records followed more than 280 000 people over up to five years after starting gender-affirming hormone therapy GAHT. Transmasculine individuals faced a marked...

The Australian Medical Association submitted a policy proposal to cap spinal imaging requests by chiropractors at three per patient per year. A departmental letter dated 15 November 2025 is cited, wit...

The Australian Medical Association warns Medicare not to restrict GP access to MBS item 55278, which covers renal duplex ultrasound with B mode imaging and integrated Doppler flow analysis of renal an...

Professor Louise Stone lays out a blunt view of general practice in Australia. She uses the Cynefin framework to map patient problems into four habitats. The simplest are known knowns: clear diagnoses...

Western Australia’s East Metropolitan Health Service has gone live with Code Focus, a digital clinical coding management and workflow platform. The rollout covers EMHS services and moves away from man...

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...

A large population based study using health data from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden finds no link between long term proton pump inhibitor use and stomach cancer. Researchers analysed da...

OncoAssure from Ireland will team up with Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in New York to test how useful the OncoAssure Prostate Test is for prognosis. The study will analyse biopsy tissue from m...

cpThrive is a mobile app designed to help people with cerebral palsy, their families and clinicians find evidence based therapies. It is commissioned by Cerebral Palsy Alliance, The University of Sydn...

A study published in Nature Health on 15 January 2026 looks at whether colour vision deficiency affects cancer outcomes. Researchers used TriNetX electronic health record data to identify 135 patients...

Australia has enacted reforms to My Health Record through the Health Legislation Amendment Act 2025. The changes make uploading mandatory for pathology and diagnostic imaging reports. From October 202...

The Australian AI scribe provider Heidi has seen rapid growth over 18 months. Growth was enabled by MongoDB Atlas and its vector search, which let Heidi scale to 81 million medical consultations world...

Northeast Health Wangaratta has gone live with the Charm Oncology Information Management System, replacing paper-based chemotherapy prescribing and scheduling with a fully electronic workflow. The Vic...

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...

Researchers at the Australian National University analysed more than 1.4 million emergency department ED visits in the Australian Capital Territory from 2000 to 2021. They found extreme weather is alr...

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...

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing will end the Pay Doctor Via Claimant system by July 2028 and replace it with a simplified electronic funds transfer process for Medicare rebates. Under...

Alcidion Group has been selected by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust as the preferred supplier for a new electronic patient record system. The deal is subject to final negotiations and...

The Northern Territory government has announced a ban on puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone treatments for adolescents. This move follows similar restrictions in Queensland, which extended...