Two panel sessions on AI governance were held during Information Awareness Week, bringing regulators, professional bodies and information management groups together to discuss how data quality shapes...
The 2026 Close the Gap report was released on National Close the Gap Day and confirms that some progress has been made, but most health and equity targets remain off track. It notes that about one thi...
The WA government used the WA Digital Health Summit to confirm progress on AI-assisted clinical scribes in the WA Health system. Lisa O’Malley, speaking for the Medical Research Minister, said pilots...
A new blood test score named MAPI, the MetALD-ALD Prediction Index, distinguishes metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease from alcohol-driven injury in steatotic liver disease. It rel...
A Labor MP sent a targeted letter to a Victorian general practice, expressing disappointment that it is not operating as a fully bulk-billing clinic and urging a move to 100 per cent bulk-billing. The...
CyberCX analysed more than 100 serious incidents across Australia and New Zealand in 2025. Separately, Threat Labs Healthcare 2026 used anonymised Netskope data from healthcare customers worldwide bet...
Svitla Systems and Cloudera announced a strategic alliance focused on building trusted data foundations for secure, production-ready AI in highly regulated sectors, with healthcare a priority. The par...
The federal government has expanded access to health information in My Health Record under the Sharing by Default reforms. Patients can view limb x-ray reports as soon as they are uploaded. This week...
A survey of more than 2,200 Australian women and girls found violence against women is the top health concern. The results, published in BMC Women’s Health, were shared by Monash University researcher...
Researchers studying humpback whales at the New Caledonia breeding grounds report a clear rise in singing as the population grows. The study finds that male whales have begun singing more often in old...
A coalition of telehealth operators and insurers has released a self-published set of National Telehealth Standards. The 34 page document outlines expectations around clinical governance, patient safe...
The 2025 Digital Health Festival will be held in Melbourne on 20–21 May, gathering RACGP leaders and hundreds of health tech professionals to discuss transforming care through stronger GP digital conn...
Australian startup i-scribe offers a clinician-led AI medical scribe. It uses ambient listening to generate notes, letters and summaries in real time. Dr Emily Powell, the chief medical officer, helps...
Gender data gaps underpin health outcomes. More than 75% of gender related data is over a decade old, limiting how governments and health systems design interventions. Women have long been underrepres...
A new study compares primary care in six wealthy nations and finds the sector is undervalued and underfunded. Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
