Carepatron, a New Zealand health tech, secured NZ$250,000 from the Maori Development Fund to accelerate its AI Clinical Support Co-Pilot, a tool embedded in practice management software to speed up ad...
A health media editor highlights growing anxiety about artificial intelligence in health work. A circulating paper titled A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI argues that friendly, con...
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia reportedly paid up to 110000 per year for a seat at a Canberra birthday dinner for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. The event doubled...
All 16 Australian medical colleges have launched a national framework to guide ethical billing, cost transparency and informed financial consent. The Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges, which i...
The National Telehealth Standards were unveiled in Parliament House by a cross‑party group of MPs, patient advocates and industry leaders. They stem from a national, patient‑led collaboration convened...
A Danish study led by psychiatrists at Aarhus University and published in Acta Psychiatr Scand analysed digital health records from about 54,000 patients with diagnosed mental illness. The team found...
Closing the Gap in remote Aboriginal health is not just about buildings. The federal government has allocated 144 million dollars for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation infrastructure...
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...
The Health Service Executive and the Department of Health in Ireland have launched the Sharing the Vision Digital Mental Health Strategy 2026-2030. It frames digital technology as a key lever to stren...
Medtech Global has launched Medtech AI in New Zealand. The platform integrates with Medtech Evolution, the practice management system, to deliver context aware patient summaries and automated clinical...
Healthpoint and Whakarongorau Aotearoa in New Zealand signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise a long-running collaboration that guides how they help whānau find the right care at the right t...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is emphasising frontline GP advocacy through its GP Advocate Network, which now includes 151 members across Australia. Dr Jennie Wright, a...
A major Australian study examined more than 330,000 aged care residents across about 3,000 facilities from 2013 to 2019. It shows GP continuity matters. Only 17.3% kept their usual GP after moving in,...
A Melbourne research team has developed a portable, point-of-care test that can detect four common sexually transmitted infections in under an hour. The CRISPR-based device tests for syphilis, gonorrh...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing has clarified there are no immediate plans to display individual GP fees on the Medical Costs Finder. This sits alongside new laws aimed at publishing no...
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...
Rising living costs have sharpened the focus on private health care costs in Australia. Insurers and some government voices have pointed to non GP specialists as a primary driver of higher out of pock...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has stepped up warnings about fake GLP-1 weight loss products. Recent tests on imports show many items marketed as GLP-1 receptor agonists or analogues conta...
A new digital platform called Pathways is being developed to support Australians making income protection claims related to mental health. The project is a collaboration between the Digital Health Coo...
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...
