Health tech burnout is framed as a workplace safety issue driven by a constant load of regulatory conformance and interoperability work. The piece cites a Medical Software Industry Association briefin...
The Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement (A-EU FTA) is described as a catalyst for Irish digital health and medical device firms seeking scale in Australia. The deal targets three core areas and includes...
The NDIS functional capacity assessment market has grown without a standard template, minimum quality standards or clear consequences for poor work. The author argues this gap lets low-quality reports...
Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services is introducing the country’s first digital immunisation record system. The rollout is backed by UNICEF and the Government of Japan and will cover 220 imm...
The RACGP has raised concerns about a Federal Government plan to overhaul the Medical Costs Finder, arguing it would publish individual GP fees and likely out-of-pocket costs. The submission says publ...
Private health premiums rose 4.4 per cent on 1 April, matching the 4.4 per cent rise in the medical hospital services category of the ABS CPI. This occurs as the health system remains tilted toward ex...
Victoria posted a record intake of future GPs in 2026, with 363 doctors commencing general practice training in February. The cohort includes 161 AGPT registrars, 149 on the rural pathway, 53 on the c...
efex has acquired Priority 1 IT to deepen its healthcare and medical IT capability and extend its footprint across Queensland. Priority 1 IT provides IT support to more than 600 medical centres, healt...
MedLuma, created by Medcast, launches as an Australian AI evidence layer that uses local Australian data and governance. It will be embedded in Best Practice, the patient management system used by abo...
Doctors for the Environment Australia marks 25 years with a gala to celebrate a long-running climate‑health mission. The organisation, founded in 2001 by David Shearman and Tony McMichael, has driven...
At the Informa Connect Virtual Care conference in Sydney, Eucalyptus senior legal counsel and head of public policy Lyndon Goddard urged industry self-accreditation for online telehealth to embed nati...
The Australian Digital Health Agency, in partnership with La Trobe University, has launched Digital Health Foundations for Nursing and Midwifery: Competency Preparation for Placement, a free online co...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has urged a major software overhaul to embed social determinants of health from a patient’s first contact and to continue tracking them through ca...
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine has asked the federal government to commit to improving rural maternity services in the upcoming budget. In its pre-budget submission, ACRRM outline...
The World Health Organization alongside the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Temasek Foundation launched a three-year programme to move ASEAN health records from paper to secure dig...
In Canberra, leaders from over 50 medical colleges, associations and societies gathered to address reforms to Australia’s health system. The session was led by Dr Sanjay Hettige, chair of the AMA Coun...
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...
The Australian health AI company Heidi has released Heidi Remote, its first dedicated clinical hardware. The clip-on device weighs 22 grams, runs for up to 14 hours on a single charge, and can cover f...
Beamtree's Global Impact Committee released a major report on precision health and its potential to cut waste and harm in healthcare. It notes that the cost of gene therapy, access and equity, workfor...
