Digital Health

The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released a report on automated decision making across 23 government agencies. ADM means using software to automate a decision. The agencies were n...

Black Book Market Research released the State of Australian Healthcare IT 2026. It assesses acute-care EMR and EHR platforms. Thirteen platforms were evaluated. Four hundred fifty four Australian hosp...

Australia’s Healthdirect launched 1800Medicare at the start of the year as part of a federal pledge to improve Healthdirect services under one national system. The new branding is still led by Healthd...

The Department of Health Disability and Ageing launched a nationwide campaign to promote expanded bulk-billing incentives and the Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program. The campaign carries the tagl...

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 is expanding access to after-hours care through 1800MEDICARE, a government-funded virtual GP service that launched on 1 January. The program is operated by Healthdirect Australia and funded...

Two changes to Australia’s home-based aged care funding have reshaped how people access care at home. Since November last year, an assessment algorithm now determines how much support is available und...

A randomised clinical trial was run across seven government-designated rehabilitation centres in Shenzhen, China. It enrolled 154 parents who were the primary caregivers of children aged three to nine...

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...

Australian researchers conducted a population based retrospective cohort study to map polypharmacy in colorectal cancer patients. They linked several data sets in New South Wales to track medicine use...

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 Australian GP policy landscape is adjusting to Medicare's chronic disease management CDM framework, with a new CDM framework taking effect from 1 July 2025. The Royal Australian College of General...

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...

Healthcare got complex not because software was missing, but because systems were not built to work together. The centre of gravity is moving to a data spine. This spine links EMR and PMS with platfor...

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...

Consultmed has been chosen by Eucalyptus to support Juniper, the weight management program. GPs can refer patients to Juniper through Consultmed, with full integration into practice management systems...

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 Health Service Executive in Ireland published the National Service Plan 2026 with a budget of 29 billion euros. It lays out a clear digital and care reform path, including the rollout of the Natio...

Galway medtech company Luminate Medical has secured a Series A of €18 million. The round is led by Lachy Groom and Artis Ventures with participation from Western Alliance Life Sciences, alongside exis...