Work on the national primary care data collection has begun, but the RACGP is pushing back on how much influence general practice will have in the data governance framework. The plan would assemble a...
Australia is at a defining moment for AI procurement, with BreastScreen NSW selecting Lunit over BRAIx in its screening program. Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy Andr...
The New Zealand digital health sector is at a turning point after 2026 data breaches and outages raised public concern. Health NZ has published the Health Information Security Framework with HISO 1002...
Bowel Cancer Australia is developing age-specific guidelines for early onset colorectal cancer in collaboration with the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration ALEC. The National Health and Medical...
Avive Health is opening its second Melbourne hospital, Avive Clinic Melbourne, in Alphington. The facility will offer 30 beds for specialist mental health care after a $15 million upgrade to the forme...
The HSE Health App 5.0 update introduces GP specialist referrals and expands health data for chronic disease management and preventative programmes. It also widens visibility of day case and inpatient...
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...
Paragraph 1: Federal MP Ed Husic used parliamentary time last month to recognise GP Teng-Kiok Kek for decades of service. Dr Kek was a Western Sydney general practitioner who spent 42 years at Mt Drui...
NSW Health’s Single Digital Patient Record rollout faces readiness gaps as Hunter New England Local Health District delays its go-live. Official schedules shifted from March 2026 to May 2026 on the SD...
The Australian healthtech founder Atif Nisar is leading the integration of his MedTalk.co platform with Canberra Health Services to deliver a robust, industrialised healthcare solution. The collaborat...
The National Cyber Security Centre has warned organisations to expect a wave of vulnerability disclosures as Anthropic's Mythos Preview is scaled up. Mythos Preview is a general‑purpose frontier AI mo...
The World Health Organization in Europe has launched the Health Information Systems Governance (HISGOV) database to help policy-makers, researchers and the public understand and improve health data ma...
The Australian Medical Association has asked for a seven-tier GP time-based Medicare Benefits Schedule item set in its 2026 budget submission. The proposal rewrites current levels A to E into seven ti...
Private health reform argues Australia’s private sector is not delivering value despite generous subsidies. It outlines three practical steps to fix this: measure patient-reported outcomes using PROMs...
Researchers from the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health say AI scribes offer a pragmatic, low-risk starting point for rural health services in Australia. The study appears in the Australian J...
South East Queensland's first regional digital plan was released by the Council of Mayors SEQ under the SEQ City Deal. The 10-year roadmap highlights telehealth, remote patient monitoring, accelerated...
An Auckland based psychiatrist, Dr Sidhesh Phaldessai, has developed the BAYA E AI app and it was selected for the DHF26 Startup Arena in Melbourne three weeks after its release. The product uses a na...
NSW Health has begun a limited rollout of the Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR). Built on Epic and hosted on the AWS cloud, the system will unify a fragmented legacy landscape across 17 local healt...
DHF26 in Melbourne on May 20 and 21 convenes international health tech voices to dissect bias, adoption and real world AI deployment. UK-based Dr MaryAnn Ferreux of Health Innovation Kent Surrey Susse...
AHPRA has begun permanently publishing sexual misconduct findings on practitioners’ public registrations. In the first tranche, 107 registrations were updated, with about 50 of the cases involving doc...
