Interoperability

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has lodged a submission to Parliament arguing that GPs should be formally embedded in the National Disability Insurance Scheme legislation. This c...

Medicare gaps are forcing rural Western Australia to rely on local councils to keep general practices running. At a senate hearing in Kununurra, Rural Health West outlined how Medicare’s design strugg...

England's NHS England has walked back some rhetoric around its Advice and Guidance scheme after GP pushback in contract talks with the British Medical Association. Dr Amanda Doyle, NHS England's natio...

An evaluation of GP and pharmacist experiences with the PBS 60-day dispensing measure shows uptake has been slower than hoped. The study analysed PBS dispensing claims from 1 September 2023 to 30 Apri...

Australian insurer Bupa released the 2026 Pulse Check, a national survey conducted with Quantum Market Research among 2000 Australians. The study shows social media is now a go to source for health co...

MEDITECH has unveiled native ambient intelligence within its Expanse AI portfolio, designed to run inside the Expanse Now mobile app for physicians and the Expanse Point of Care app for nurses. The te...

The Medical Republic is hosting a free expert panel webinar on prevention on 28 April 2026 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM AEST. The session features Travis Grant from Accenture Health, A/Prof Alam Yoosuff o...

Agentic AI dominated conversations at HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, where vendors demonstrated systems that can reason, plan and carry out workflows inside core health IT platforms. These agents break down...

Eight Primary Health Organisations across New Zealand have kicked off a joint procurement to identify a single AI capable platform for primary health operations. The eight PHOs are WellSouth Primary H...

The Australian government has updated the Support at Home program to remove out-of-pocket costs for personal care such as showering, dressing and continence care. The change, effective from November 2...

The NSW Government announced that from 1 June eligible pharmacists who complete extra training will be able to prescribe the contraceptive pill to women over 18 without requiring a visit to a GP. The...

During a hearing on the administration of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, evidence emerged that it is not possible to reliably separate legitimate errors from deliberate fraud in NDIS claims...

The HSE Health App 5.0 update introduces GP specialist referrals and expands health data for chronic disease management and preventative programmes. It also widens visibility of day case and inpatient...

RMIT University has launched the RMIT AWS Innovation Lab (RAIL), a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services. The lab is described as the first dedicated AWS Cloud Innovation Lab at any Austral...

Since November the Integrated Assessment Tool has been used under the Support at Home program to decide how much home care funding an older Australian receives after a home interview. Assessors input...

The Australasian Institute for Digital Health will lead a national Clinical Informatics Fellowship program that is slated to launch in 2027, created in partnership with the Digital Health Cooperative...

Sparked is pushing forward FHIR data standards as part of its rollout, led by CSIRO’s Australian eHealth Research Centre. The initiative, supported by the Department of Health Disability and Ageing, t...

The Mater Queensland eConsult service, funded by the Queensland Government, has operated statewide since October 2025. It connects GPs with rapid specialist input across 16 subspecialties through the...

RACGP WA has lodged a pre-budget submission calling for a new state Chief General Practitioner to voice GP interests in WA policy development. The role would cost about $1.5 million per year and aims...

The Australasian Institute of Digital Health is moving to formalise a Clinical Informatics Fellowship with backing from the Department of Health Disability and Ageing and the Digital Health CRC. The p...