The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has rejected the Australian College of Nursing push to let nurse practitioners run urgent care clinics independently. The RACGP says UCCs must sta...
Australia is wrestling with how precision health will reshape digital care. The piece explains that moving to a personalised agenda will expose gaps in how Australia handles complex data flows and lar...
Future Health Expo 2027 was announced as the first event of its kind, taking place in Auckland, New Zealand, from 15 to 17 April 2027. It blends a two‑day professional conference and trade show with a...
GPs in Katherine floods led a rapid primary care response as the town faced its worst floods in 28 years. Dr Karin Jodlowski-Tan, in a clinical governance role at Wurli-Wurlinjang Health Service, help...
AHPRA chief executive Justin Untersteiner told the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia National Conference in Melbourne that the regulator expects uncertainty in the coming years. The organisatio...
Industry groups across Europe, nearly 50 digital bodies including Technology Ireland IBEC, have pressed the European Parliament and European Council to urge the European Commission to table a standalo...
At Imprivata Connect in Sydney, Eye and Ear Hospital chief clinical informatics officer Kate Renzenbrink warned that digital health introduces new risks that are not yet well understood. She cited poo...
Not-for-profit Warrigal has begun a 12-month trial of Care Companion at Warrigal Goulburn in partnership with Ericom Software. The system uses ceiling mounted Xandar Kardian radar sensors to monitor h...
Gippsland Health Alliance will deploy a region-wide digital referral platform that replaces fax-based workflows and links GPs with hospital services across eastern Victoria. The rollout brings Consult...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners NSW & ACT has filed a pre Budget submission with the NSW Government arguing that well connected general practice is the best way to rein in rising...
1800Medicare has been launched as Australia’s grand national triage service, but its future is unsettled as patient-facing AI agents move fast. The government’s system faces the risk of becoming redun...
The Australian health AI company Heidi has released Heidi Remote, its first dedicated clinical hardware. The clip-on device weighs 22 grams, runs for up to 14 hours on a single charge, and can cover f...
The Australian General Practice Research Foundation has opened two GP led grant rounds. The Ageing Well Research Grant offers $150,000 to GP led research addressing ageing, aged care and end‑of‑life c...
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing opened a February consultation on modernising the GP to hospital based specialist referral ecosystem. The RACGP published terms for indefinite referrals...
HL7 Australia released AU eRequesting Release 1.0, the first national FHIR standard to govern diagnostic requesting across pathology and radiology. The specification defines how requests are created,...
In New South Wales a record number of doctors started GP training in 2026, with 530 aspiring GPs entering the AGPT program. That is a 27 percent rise on 2025. A rural training pathway attracted 255 tr...
Australia is accelerating toward AI enabled care as patient side tools like ChatGPT Health and Claude Health start guiding patients through symptoms and care options. The rise of online GP platforms s...
Vision-enabled AI scribes were tested by Flinders University researchers in a study published in npj Digital Medicine. The team combined Google Gemini with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to capture both v...
Care Pathways Australia Review, commissioned by Streamliners and conducted by Nous Group, was released in March 2026 after 42 stakeholder consultations across seven states and territories. It finds Au...
