On 16 and 17 June, local and international health leaders will gather in Canberra for a prevention workshop and summit focused on clarifying who owns prevention, how it is measured, and where to inves...
Lumonus, a Sydney based developer of an AI platform for radiation oncology clinical workflow and automated treatment planning, announced a collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre. Th...
The Australian Medical Association has filed a submission with the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing in response to the second consultation on Medicare funded cardiac imaging items. The AMA...
The NDIS functional capacity assessment market has grown without a standard template, minimum quality standards or clear consequences for poor work. The author argues this gap lets low-quality reports...
During Australian Healthcare Week in Sydney, leaders outlined how Australia’s end-to-end digital health vision is evolving, but turning ambition into scalable, usable change remains a challenge. eHeal...
Two major health groups in the Northern Territory clash over pharmacy scope reforms. The Australian Medical Association NT issued a hard line call to scrap the idea, while the RACGP NT chair urged a m...
At the WA Digital Health Summit in Perth, health economist Luke Slawomirski warned that preventive healthcare is being neglected. He framed Australia’s system as reactive, expensive and fragmented, mo...
At the Australian Financial Review healthcare summit in Sydney, Dr Nick Coatsworth challenged simple budget splits and highlighted the NDIS as a major, growing funding item. He floated moving some NDI...
Legislation called the Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures Bill 2025 passed, banning life insurers from using genetic test results to assess applicants. The move is design...
Private health premiums rose 4.4 per cent on 1 April, matching the 4.4 per cent rise in the medical hospital services category of the ABS CPI. This occurs as the health system remains tilted toward ex...
Australia's Commonwealth government has announced a $7.45 million funding package for Victoria to strengthen pelvic pain care in general practice. Part of the money will back Primary Health Networks t...
The Federal Government has launched a free telehealth therapy for emerging mental illness, offering LiCBT low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for people 16 and older. Access is available witho...
Victoria posted a record intake of future GPs in 2026, with 363 doctors commencing general practice training in February. The cohort includes 161 AGPT registrars, 149 on the rural pathway, 53 on the c...
The ACT Government released the Digital Health Record Benefits Realisation Yearbook three years after go-live to show what the system has delivered. The DHR has consolidated more than 50 legacy system...
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is lobbying to make PBS prescribing rights for pharmacists permanent, building on trial funding for pharmacist‑led prescribing that has not yet started. Guild president...
Orchestral launched Orchestral for Medication Safety to help clinicians verify prescriptions in real time within pharmacy dispensing workflows in New Zealand. The system sits inside existing dispensin...
A major new review finds e-cigarettes are likely carcinogenic to humans, with links to lung and oral cancer. The analysis examined all peer reviewed trials and studies published between 2017 and mid 2...
The government has committed to overhauling referral pathways and fixing rising non-GP specialist costs. A Grattan Institute 2025 paper proposes a digital asynchronous secondary consultation system wh...
Amazon Connect Health has run a pilot with UC San Diego Health that shows AI front end agents can verify patient identity, schedule appointments, deliver patient insights, document in the EMR and code...
Pharmacy access expands, consultation declines. Australia is weighing reforms to scope of practice rules and pharmacy prescribing to address primary care workforce gaps. Two decades after emergency co...
