Interoperability

At HealthTechX Asia in Singapore, Professor Adam Chee, Director of AI Development at Singapore General Hospital, warned that health AI projects often start with a solution rather than a clearly define...

HIMAA welcomes the release of the National Model for Clinical Governance by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. The model recognises Health Information Managers, Clinical C...

The Albany After Hours GP Clinic has its Federal funding renewed for 2026–27 after a sustained push by RACGP WA and local advocates. The clinic had been told the funding would not continue beyond 30 J...

Pharmacist UTI prescribing in NSW produced final findings from the NSW pharmacist-led prescribing trial, covering about 17,400 women treated at community pharmacies across NSW and the ACT. The Univers...

The Medicare Benefits Schedule indexation factor for 1 July 2026 will be 2.6%, applying to most general medical services items and diagnostic imaging. The government indicated the change alongside CPI...

Australia's health reform agenda has evolved through decades of reform, from the Medibank universal cover to Medicare and the subsequent funding and governance overhauls. The piece maps key milestones...

Mercy Health has chosen Hewlett Packard Enterprise to lead a connectivity overhaul across more than 40 sites in its healthy ageing and residential aged care footprint. The project will support more th...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has lodged a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into epilepsy in Australia, calling for a 40% uplift to Medicare rebates for longer GP consulta...

Medtronic has announced the creation of a European software development hub in Galway, Ireland, to act as a global centre of excellence for cardiac digital health. The facility will develop cloud base...

Data Dissect has launched a modern AI driven registry platform now backed by Neo Data Pty Ltd after an acquisition completed earlier this year. The SaaS product runs on AWS sovereign infrastructure an...

NSW Health has launched the Single Digital Patient Record across the Hunter New England region this week. Calvary Mater Newcastle is the first affiliated health organisation to go live on the Epic bas...

The Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority led the go live of the Epic electronic medical record at Hunter New England Local Health District, timed for 6am. It is described as the larg...

From 1 July 2026, bulk billing in Australia requires an electronic act of assignment for every bulk-billed encounter. The Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Act 2024 and three supporting changes r...

Consultmed has joined MediRecords Marketplace to enable a two way FHIR enabled connection that lets MediRecords users receive referrals and clinical communications from more than 60,000 healthcare pro...

Epic's single digital patient record rollout across the Hunter New England Local Health District is poised to go ahead after a final go/no-go decision window between 5:00 and 5:30 am Sydney time. The...

Paragraph 1: SnotWatch, the respiratory arm of the Ecologic Health Outcome Monitoring Environment Reporting project, is mapping how viruses circulate using near real time PCR data. Led by Murdoch Chil...

Daniel McCabe is transitioning from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s Medicare Benefits and Digital Health division to lead the DoHDA Technology Assessment and Access division. He will...

Newcastle GP Dr Max Mollenkopf has split White Bridge Medical Centre into two Services to separate bulk-billing and premium care. White Bridge Express is the bulk-billing arm with kiosk check-in, a se...

Stryker says hospitals are wrestling with growing operational complexity because systems for communication, coordination and workflows do not interoperable well. The company’s Asia Pacific head, Micha...