Interoperability in Australian health care is moving from planning to execution. The Australian Digital Health Agency reports that 47% of initiatives under the national digital health plan for 2023 to...
Rauland Australia and New Zealand unveiled Concentric Care Unify, a dedicated aged care platform, at the ITAC Conference 2026 in Brisbane. The system brings messaging, alerts and analytics into one ce...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners will steer the development of a nationally consistent urgent care standard. This follows the federal government confirming urgent care clinics wil...
Singapore is moving to scale AI-enabled healthcare, led by a HealthTechX Asia session with Health Minister Tan Kiat How. He highlighted a super-aged society with more than 20 per cent of residents ove...
Australia's health safety authority released the Emergency Laparotomy Clinical Care Standard in May 2026. The standard covers emergency laparotomy for urgent abdominal conditions such as bowel obstruc...
Blair Comley delivered the keynote at the Public Health Association of Australia national conference, arguing for a sharper focus on prevention and early intervention. He traced the social investment...
Urgent care clinics will become a permanent pillar of Medicare after the government announced a funding package worth $1.8 billion over five years from 2025-26, with ongoing funding above $525 million...
More than one million Australians have downloaded the 1800MEDICARE app, marking a milestone for the national digital health program. The Australian Digital Health Agency says the uptake shows strong d...
An open letter to Treasurer Dr Chalmers argues prevention in Australia is a fiscal problem and should be treated as infrastructure. It advocates creating the Australian Preventative Health Agency to a...
The New Zealand digital health sector is at a turning point after 2026 data breaches and outages raised public concern. Health NZ has published the Health Information Security Framework with HISO 1002...
The GPCCMP dashboard has been added to MediRecords Clarity to support proactive chronic care management. It pulls data for every patient on an active Chronic Condition Management Plan, showing the pla...
Health New Zealand's Shared Digital Health Record (SDHR) pulse check examined public views on health information sharing after high profile cybersecurity incidents. Feedback from consumer channels, ea...
Bowel Cancer Australia is developing age-specific guidelines for early onset colorectal cancer in collaboration with the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration ALEC. The National Health and Medical...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is inviting member nominations for a vacancy on the RACGP Expert Committee – Standards for General Practices (REC–SGP). Expressions of interest sh...
GPs under NDIS are pressuring for formal recognition as medical specialists within the disability scheme. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners lodged a submission with the joint stand...
Canadian researchers at MacEwan University ran a controlled experiment to test whether infrasounds influence physiology and mood. The team exposed participants to infrasounds at 18 Hz using hidden sub...
The Australian Digital Health Agency says the National Healthcare Interoperability Plan is 75 per cent complete after the latest quarterly update. The plan is a multi‑year drive to secure health infor...
Australia's health system is highly fragmented with about 40 payers, including nine governments and 29 private insurers, plus patients paying out of pocket. The analysis contrasts this with Taiwan's N...
An Australian study finds substantial variation in how general practitioners investigate and manage colorectal cancer symptoms. The retrospective analysis used data from 70,107 patients aged 40 and ov...
