Health Data

National digital health strategies in the Asia-Pacific struggle to turn commitments on gender equality, equity and human rights into real plans. In Vietnam, policy emphasises digital health and gender...

Generative AI for health is moving from labs to real use. OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a health focused version that can connect to medical records and wellness apps, upload diagnostic imaging...

The Australian Medical Association submitted to an inquiry into the Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Bill 2025. The AMA argues the bill would...

The federal government has announced a two stage reform to how medicines are dispensed and tracked in Australia. In the first stage, all online and telehealth prescribers will upload details of a pati...

The European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration have jointly issued guidance on using artificial intelligence in drug development and regulation. The document sets out 10 princip...

The Australian Medical Association has released a report that flags serious risks from Australia’s fragmented digital health systems. These systems are often isolated and use incompatible software, wh...

Apple Watch will now offer hypertension alerts in Australia after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the feature in December. Apple expects more than one million people with undiagnosed hyp...

A webinar marking global Data Privacy Day warned governance hasn’t kept pace with AI adoption in health care. AI is now embedded in health tools from EHRs to coding and documentation workflows, often...

Black Book Market Research released the State of Australian Healthcare IT 2026. It assesses acute-care EMR and EHR platforms. Thirteen platforms were evaluated. Four hundred fifty four Australian hosp...

Australian researchers conducted a population based retrospective cohort study to map polypharmacy in colorectal cancer patients. They linked several data sets in New South Wales to track medicine use...

AI powered consumer health tools are set to reshape Australia’s health sector. ChatGPT Health is in trial with selected users, and Claude Health is expected to launch soon. The industry has long resis...

ChatGPT Health was launched in early January 2026. It allows patients to upload medical records for AI analysis and uses the data to interpret recent test results, help patients prepare for appointmen...

The NHS England has given the go ahead to 19 ambient voice scribes that listen to consultations and produce real time clinical notes. The aim is to free doctors from routine note taking so they can fo...

Healthcare got complex not because software was missing, but because systems were not built to work together. The centre of gravity is moving to a data spine. This spine links EMR and PMS with platfor...

Dedalus ANZ has appointed Dr Vinod Seetharaman as Chief Medical Officer. He brings 23 years of medical and leadership experience. The move aligns with a push to transform care beyond treatment, emphas...

AI hype in health care meets real limits. Google’s AI Overviews misread a calendar example, showing reliability gaps. OpenAI markets ChatGPT Health as a tool to help people understand health and welln...

The Health Service Executive in Ireland published the National Service Plan 2026 with a budget of 29 billion euros. It lays out a clear digital and care reform path, including the rollout of the Natio...

The United Arab Emirates is building a national AI enabled health ecosystem focused on prediction, prevention and personalisation. The effort rests on unified data assets, population genomics and a re...

The Australian AI scribe provider Heidi has seen rapid growth over 18 months. Growth was enabled by MongoDB Atlas and its vector search, which let Heidi scale to 81 million medical consultations world...

The My Health Record system has been modernised to let patients access most pathology results on the day they see their clinician. Patients can also upload those results to AI tools like ChatGPT Healt...