Interoperability

Fiona Armstrong, chief executive of Liquid, outlined a bold rethink of care delivery at the international e-Mental Health Conference in Toronto. She argues health has become overly specialised and fra...

Whiddon is a not-for-profit aged care provider with 23 residential homes across New South Wales and Southeast Queensland. It has chosen Telstra Health to supply its residential aged care software. The...

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has released early figures for the Bulk Billing PIP. In the first two months, the BB PIP paid out $61,370,277.86 to 2,949 practices. The average payout...

In January 2026 the AI health assistants ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare launched. These tools are purpose built to guide health decisions and are becoming the main way many people start thei...

Interoperability is no longer a buzzword. In Australia, the health system remains a patchwork of clinics using different software. This creates gaps when care is handed off between GPs, specialists an...

An interim review of a national pilot run by 12 Primary Health Networks evaluated a coordinated effort to boost GP engagement with family violence services. The program subsidised family violence trai...

Digital Health Week 2026 showcased Professor Peter Steele from the University of Melbourne. He framed AI as something to implement through front end Learning Health System work. LHS lets health servic...

Dedalus topped Black Book Market Research’s 2026 State of Australian Healthcare IT evaluation, taking the most top rankings across 18 strategic-fit dimensions for Australian EMR platforms. Health serv...

The Sydney Adventist Hospital hosted the inaugural Women in CI Asia Pacific Summit 2026 on February 6–7. Surgeons and hearing specialists from across the Asia Pacific shared concerns about gaps in adu...

The Sparked program, led by CSIRO, aims to standardise health data sharing through national FHIR standards. It has delivered multiple implementation guides, e-requesting tools for pathology and imagin...

Irish medtech company xWave Technologies has teamed with Lanas's iMedDoc to deliver a fully digital radiology referral workflow across Ireland. The integration embeds xWave Refer into the iMedDoc EMR...

Health Samurai's Nikolai Ryzhikov outlined SQL on FHIR 2.1, aiming for a March release. The effort standardises how FHIR data is flattened and queried so analytics tools in existing BI ecosystems can...

New Zealand is progressing with the Shared Digital Health Record (SDHR), following a limited rollout with early adopter general practices. Health NZ plans to start onboarding general practices this ye...

An independent review of the Sparked Program, the HL7 FHIR accelerator funded by the Australian Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, has been released. The Evaluation Report 2023-2025 was cond...

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...

Findings from 2026 General Practice Business Viability Insights, produced by Hunter New England Centre Coast PHN, show staffing remains a core problem and administration is a heavy burden. About one t...

AI scribes reached real scale in Australian clinics during 2025. Lyrebird, the notes first mover, saw about a quarter of Australian GPs using an AI scribe by mid 2025, turning a once visionary idea in...

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...

Western Australia’s East Metropolitan Health Service has gone live with Code Focus, a digital clinical coding management and workflow platform. The rollout covers EMHS services and moves away from man...