Digital Health

1800Medicare has been launched as Australia’s grand national triage service, but its future is unsettled as patient-facing AI agents move fast. The government’s system faces the risk of becoming redun...

Parliament House hosted the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre at its first Parliamentary Innovation Showcase, with health leaders, policymakers, researchers and industry representatives watch...

Australia has moved to a new phase in Alzheimer's care as monoclonal antibodies become available through regulatory approvals. The Therapeutic Goods Administration granted donanemab (Kinsula) approval...

At Karinya, a 50-bed not-for-profit residential aged care facility in regional Western Australia, telehealth changed how care is delivered. Narrogin Cottage Homes explained how a single telehealth car...

The MEL-SELF randomised trial enrolled 504 adults previously treated for early-stage melanoma across dermatology clinics in Australia and randomised them to either patient-led surveillance or clinicia...

AI for Care, Ireland’s first national strategy dedicated to applying artificial intelligence in health and social care, was unveiled by Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. The plan targets four...

A major systematic review published in The Lancet Psychiatry evaluated 54 randomised controlled trials from 1980 to 2025, involving 2,477 participants, to test whether medicinal cannabis benefits ment...

Researchers led by Associate Professor Leigh Frame at George Washington University reviewed 58 human studies to examine how gut microbiome dysbiosis relates to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’...

The Northern Territory held its inaugural GPs@Parliament last week, organised by the RACGP NT faculty. General practitioners offered MPs health checks as they spoke one-on-one about general practice,...

Healthcare leadership faces a high failure rate in the first year, with research showing 40 to 50 per cent of senior leaders exit within 18 months. The piece foregrounds a chief operating officer in a...

Edith Cowan University researchers tested I-VADE, a virtual reality de-escalation training, with 221 undergraduate nursing students. The 20 minute session used individual headsets and small facilitato...

Australian digital health matured in 2026 with two big capital events that move the sector from pilots to core infrastructure. In February 2026, Hims & Hers agreed to buy Eucalyptus for $1.15 billion,...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners welcomed reforms to the Workforce Incentive Program Rural Advanced Skills stream. The changes set a GP’s total FTE as solely the service they prov...

The Mapping the Digital Gap 2025 Outcomes Report, produced by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society with support from Telstra, surveyed 12 remote First...

NSW Health is accelerating its AI push with more than 450 AI initiatives in flight across the system, according to eHealth NSW chief executive Richard Taggart, spoke at Australian Healthcare Week. He...

The HSE and University of Galway’s HIVE Lab kicked off a national rollout of the All-Islands Health Virtual Care Programme, extending to 12 offshore islands. Over the next two years, a universal digit...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners released results from the 2026.1 cycle for the Applied Knowledge Test and the Key Feature Problem. In January, over 2,200 candidates sat the two e...

At the Healthcare 2040 Expo in Sydney, health AI experts pressed governments to prioritise governance and data foundations rather than just new tools. A MIT Media Lab study cited by speakers suggested...

Western NSW Local Health District completed a two year evaluation of its Virtual Support remote monitoring program. The study, led by the University of Sydney School of Rural Health with the Digital H...

Cohealth chief executive Nicole Bartholomeusz resigned, announced via LinkedIn, triggering questions about the provider’s future. Within a day the organisation said it would close three GP clinics whi...