The Australian Medical Association argues interoperability in health IT must be compulsory and backed by enforcement. In a new report, the AMA warns that without mandated standards and penalties, data...
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...
The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...
Australia is moving to a national medicines record that ties scripts to the My Health Record. Health minister Mark Butler announced two major reforms after a preventable overdose death: online telehea...
The Australian Digital Health Agency has invited software developers and implementers to test the Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide. The directory aims to provide n...
AI adoption in Australian healthcare is lagging, even with regulator approved tools available internationally. Few AI tools are used in routine patient care. Barriers include how AI fits into busy cli...
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...
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...
The Australian GP policy landscape is adjusting to Medicare's chronic disease management CDM framework, with a new CDM framework taking effect from 1 July 2025. The Royal Australian College of General...
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...
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...
Australia has enacted reforms to My Health Record through the Health Legislation Amendment Act 2025. The changes make uploading mandatory for pathology and diagnostic imaging reports. From October 202...
Eucalyptus, a digital clinic operator, has partnered with Consultmed to use its platform for secure, structured communication between clinicians and patients’ regular GPs. The deal supports shared car...
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...
Northeast Health Wangaratta has gone live with the Charm Oncology Information Management System, replacing paper-based chemotherapy prescribing and scheduling with a fully electronic workflow. The Vic...
The Telehealth Sector Working Group led by medicinal cannabis company Montu has urged the Australian Digital Health Agency and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to mandate telehealth sta...
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...
A Commonwealth Fund global survey of nearly 11,000 GPs across 10 countries, including Australia, shows burnout is high among Australian clinicians. In Australia, 32% of GPs report burnout, with admini...
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...
