Digital Health Transformation

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...

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...

AI in Australian healthcare shows big potential but is not scaling. A Q4 2025 survey of 500 health workers by Appian found 60 per cent are piloting AI or running small tests, while only 12 per cent ha...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and around 20 peak patient bodies travelled to Canberra to push for reform of Medicare rebates for longer GP consultations. They note that more th...

The piece argues that the real limit on product led platforms is the underlying architecture. Roadmaps push ahead, but the core platform often lags. In health tech, platforms must handle data moving a...

AI is moving into everyday management in digital health. It allocates work, tracks compliance and tunes workflows. In Australia this shift raises psychosocial risk concerns. The Safe Work Australia mo...

Dr Paul Eleftheriou from Nous Group is moving to Medibank as chief medical officer (customer). He will finish at Nous on 13 March and start at Medibank on 31 March, taking over from Dr Christopher Rob...

Sparked is Australia’s push to speed up FHIR based health information exchange. It brings together a diverse mix of health system players and has moved the standards from theory to practical output. T...

At the National Health Summit 2026 a panel highlighted that clinicians must keep decision making at the point of care as AI tools grow in use. The final decision stays with clinicians, and they need t...

Australia’s health tech sector moves toward formal AI governance. Magentus became the first company to sign the inaugural Voluntary Code of Conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health sof...

Sonic Healthcare and Healius posted stronger first-half 2026 results, signalling pathology volumes are recovering after Covid lows. Sonic reported revenue of A$5.445 billion, up 17 per cent year on ye...

Best Practice has integrated Lyrebird Health’s AI scribe into the BP Premier free tier. The move gives general practices access to AI assisted note taking without extra costs, aiming to support clinic...

Pharmx Technologies and Sigma Healthcare have unveiled a multi year strategic alliance. Pharmx becomes the core technology infrastructure partner for Sigma and the Chemist Warehouse network across Aus...

Streamliners has announced an integration with Heidi Health to bring HealthPathways local clinical guidance into Heidi's AI powered clinician assistant. The move comes as Heidi expands into decision s...

Alcidion has secured regulatory clearance for Concept Detection, an AI assisted feature within the Miya Precision platform's Noting module. The Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods lists Concept D...

Uniting NSW & ACT has moved Buddy, a generative AI assistant, into production across 1,000 community care workers. The tool reduces admin work and speeds up documentation, with post-visit notes droppi...

At the IHCA FutureCare 2026 conference, Prof Brian Pickering of Mayo Clinic urged that Irelands national EHR needs a built in cognitive layer. He warned that piling data into the system without guidin...

Grahame Grieve, the HL7 leader and creator of FHIR, spoke on PULSE the Podcast about the central role of data sharing in modern health technology. He argues the FHIR community must stay open and trust...

Australia needs a national digital nursing passport. The Australian College of Nursing released its 2026–27 pre-budget submission. It calls for a federally funded National Nursing Capability Passport...