Digital Health

Australia’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs will run a wide review of how recent Medicare reforms affect rural primary care. The inquiry will assess the 1 November 2025 changes...

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...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen warn social media chatter about low testosterone shapes patient views. Mass screening for low testosterone is not clinically warranted. Many healthy men h...

Zebra Technologies has announced a wave of APAC leadership appointments to speed the adoption of AI powered automation in health care and other sectors. Tom Christodoulou takes on the role of Sales Vi...

The federal government has announced a two stage reform to how medicines are dispensed and tracked in Australia. In the first stage, all online and telehealth prescribers will upload details of a pati...

ANDHealth has opened applications for the 2026 intake of its ACTIVATE scale-up program, supported by LaunchVic and the Victorian Government. ACTIVATE runs for six months, from May to December 2026, de...

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...

Birregurra, a rural Victoria town of about 1000 people, currently has only one GP at Birregurra Medical Centre. The clinic sits roughly two hours from Melbourne, and Dr Jared Kilday is leading a push...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners reports a clear rise in patients presenting with workplace related mental health concerns. In a newsGP poll, 82% of GPs said they had seen more pa...

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...

Abortion is legal across Australia since 2023, but access remains uneven and expensive. The federal government has spent about $573 million on women’s health in the last year, funding contraception, m...

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...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is refreshing its website and member portal. It is asking members from all career stages to provide input so the new digital space fits real needs...

The European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration have jointly issued guidance on using artificial intelligence in drug development and regulation. The document sets out 10 princip...

Beacon Hospital in Dublin became the first in the world to trial the Prism-2 software for the Affera Mapping and Ablation System in a clinical setting. The Affera system is used to treat atrial fibril...

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...

The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...

The Medical Republic ran a rare interview with Professor Candid. He is widely known for a controversial prank that allegedly involved grafting a cow’s udder onto a coworker’s back. The conversation tu...

The Australian Digital Health Agency has invited software developers and implementers to test the Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide. The directory aims to provide n...

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...