Digital Health

Federal health minister Mark Butler announced an extra $1.5 million in funding to keep Cohealth services at Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington open for 12 months. The money is time limited and contin...

ACSALDH released a position paper urging Australia to reset how digital health research is funded across universities. The work draws on responses from 37 member universities and argues that progress...

MedTech Actuator used HealthTechX Asia in Singapore to highlight momentum in SaMD and digital health across Asia. The organisation’s Head of International Programmes, Gwendolin Mah, attended as a dele...

Flinders University researchers published a paper in the Digital Health journal arguing that co-design is essential for inclusive and ethical technologies for ageing populations. The work examines how...

Health NZ’s BroPilot project is a culturally grounded adaptation of Microsoft Copilot developed by Troy Baker. The pilot sits within Haoura Māori Services and aims to reflect Māori values, whakaaro an...

An open letter to Treasurer Dr Chalmers argues prevention in Australia is a fiscal problem and should be treated as infrastructure. It advocates creating the Australian Preventative Health Agency to a...

A Science commentary from Flinders University researchers responds to a US study that assessed AI diagnostic reasoning in emergency scenarios. The US work found OpenAI’s o1-preview correctly identifie...

An Australian study finds substantial variation in how general practitioners investigate and manage colorectal cancer symptoms. The retrospective analysis used data from 70,107 patients aged 40 and ov...

The Northern Territory will launch its first single employer model trial for rural generalist registrars in June. The plan is funded through December 2028 and can include up to 24 full‑time equivalent...

A multinational team led by Mays M. Jarrah from the University of Sharjah examined how prediction tools for multiple myeloma are used today and what remains to be built for routine care. The study, pu...

England's NHS England has walked back some rhetoric around its Advice and Guidance scheme after GP pushback in contract talks with the British Medical Association. Dr Amanda Doyle, NHS England's natio...

Australian insurer Bupa released the 2026 Pulse Check, a national survey conducted with Quantum Market Research among 2000 Australians. The study shows social media is now a go to source for health co...

The Australian government has updated the Support at Home program to remove out-of-pocket costs for personal care such as showering, dressing and continence care. The change, effective from November 2...

The NCSP has formalised self-collection as a universal option for cervical screening, alongside clinician-collected tests. National data show 74.2% of screen-eligible Australians were up to date with...

During a hearing on the administration of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, evidence emerged that it is not possible to reliably separate legitimate errors from deliberate fraud in NDIS claims...

RMIT University has launched the RMIT AWS Innovation Lab (RAIL), a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services. The lab is described as the first dedicated AWS Cloud Innovation Lab at any Austral...

Guidance from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing clarifies the prescribed pattern of services rule and when the Professional Services Review can seek repayments from Medicare rebates. The...

Dr Adele Stewart uses a NewsGP opinion to argue that chronic pain cannot be explained by tissue damage alone and GPs should adopt a biopsychosocial, person-centred approach. She ties this to the 2020...

Medicinal cannabis prescriptions in Australia declined sharply in the second half of 2025, according to the Penington Institute. The report, using data from the Federal Department of Health, Disabilit...