Health Data

A cyber incident hit New Zealand’s ManageMyHealth patient portal in late December 2025. Hackers calling themselves Kazu claimed the breach and posted a sample with a ransom demand. ManageMyHealth lear...

A US health service study published in JAMA Network Open shows emoji use in electronic health record notes is widespread. Researchers found 372 distinct emojis across 4,162 notes created between 2020...

Black Book Market Research’s State of Australian Healthcare IT 2026 examines which acute-care EMR and EHR platforms fit Australian health systems. It draws on 454 hospital and health service staff acr...

ATAGI has updated measles vaccination guidance for infants travelling overseas. Infants aged 6–11 months who get an MMR dose before travel must have that dose repeated. They should then receive two mo...

Alcidion Group has been selected by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust as the preferred supplier for a new electronic patient record system. The deal is subject to final negotiations and...

Victoria has expanded its Community Pharmacist Program, now marketed as Chemist Care Now, to broaden what pharmacists can provide without a prescription. The changes add two additional hormonal contra...

The Department of Health Disability and Ageing maintains a public register of data matching activities. It confirms a 36 month PBS claims campaign started in December 2025. The effort compares pharmac...

In late December NSW moved to end referral of surgery related deaths to CHASM, the state’s independent review body. The CHASM program will be replaced by a new model led by the Clinical Excellence Com...

Potentia Capital has acquired HotDoc for about 250 million dollars. The deal price sits just over eight times revenue and at least 30 times EBITDA. HotDoc runs a GP booking platform used by patients a...

ManageMyHealth, a trans-Tasman patient portal, was hacked by the ransomware gang Kazu on 30 December 2025. Roughly 125,000 of its 1.8 million users were affected. The breach involved patient documents...

A new report from the Department of Health highlights that smaller GP practices, especially those with fewer doctors, limited staff, or in lower socio-economic or rural areas, face more barriers to ac...

Canopy Healthcare, the largest private oncology provider in New Zealand, experienced a cyber breach in July 2025. The incident involved unauthorised access to a part of their administrative systems. A...

Alcidion, an Australian digital health company, has been chosen as the preferred supplier for a new electronic patient record system at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. The...

Health New Zealand has responded to a cybersecurity breach involving Manage My Health in Northland. The breach affected patient data, prompting Health NZ to provide support for those impacted. They ar...