The Rural Doctors Association of Australia says rising fuel costs threaten remote healthcare access. President Dr Sarah Chalmers, a remote GP in the Northern Territory, told The Medical Republic that...
Symex Labs is developing a wearable hormone biosensor to support IVF treatment, in collaboration with RMIT, the University of Melbourne and Monash IVF. The patch targets progesterone and oestradiol, r...
Gold Coast Health has signed a deal with Alcidion to roll out Miya Precision across its three hospitals and community health network. The end to end remote patient monitoring solution will link with G...
Digital care journeys are split into two camps, a view supported by Dr Joshua Liu, the cofounder and CEO of SeamlessMD. Since 2020 health systems have divided into an EHR first approach that seeks a s...
March 2026 brings changes to My Health Record that let patients see limb X-ray results the moment they are uploaded. Other imaging tests such as CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound and torso scans become viewabl...
The federal government has expanded access to health information in My Health Record under the Sharing by Default reforms. Patients can view limb x-ray reports as soon as they are uploaded. This week...
A Health Affairs study analysed dissatisfaction, stress and burnout among primary care doctors in the United States and nine other high income countries, including Australia. The results showed that w...
At a parliamentary forum focused on ME/CFS and long covid, lawmakers, clinicians, researchers and people living with the conditions discussed reform progress and remaining gaps. The hearing highlighte...
Lin Hua slept in a parked car after a family crisis in Sydney’s north, living with depression and an ADHD diagnosis from the pandemic era. Her path to care began at a neighbourhood health hub in Dee W...
A US pediatrician reported in the New England Journal of Medicine a case where a mother refused all childhood vaccines after citing the CDC’s ongoing review of its guidance. The scene occurred at the...
Five Faces, a Brisbane based patient experience software firm, has rolled out Patient Journey Support as part of its Unified Patient Hub. The platform guides patients from waitlists through perioperat...
Monash University researchers partnered with nine Indonesian health leaders to create the Value-Based Digital Health Innovation Canvas (VDHIC). Funded by the Australian Government through the DFAT via...
Australian startup i-scribe offers a clinician-led AI medical scribe. It uses ambient listening to generate notes, letters and summaries in real time. Dr Emily Powell, the chief medical officer, helps...
Australia's 16 specialist medical colleges have launched a national framework to improve ethical billing and fee transparency in specialist care. The Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges develope...
Medtech Global has launched Medtech AI in New Zealand. The platform integrates with Medtech Evolution, the practice management system, to deliver context aware patient summaries and automated clinical...
AI in Australian healthcare shows big potential but is not scaling. A Q4 2025 survey of 500 health workers by Appian found 60 per cent are piloting AI or running small tests, while only 12 per cent ha...
A study published in Cognitive Processing examined whether conspiracy beliefs align with autistic traits. It enrolled 412 adults from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe and used four sta...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has completed the first in-person ADHD training cohort for 100 South Australian GPs. They are now qualified to diagnose, manage and prescr...
A new app called Patient Consult Summary is being rolled out nationally. It helps clinicians turn complex clinical advice into clear, patient friendly written summaries during video calls. PCS works i...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners SA launched its 2026 election policy platform in the SA campaign. A key ask is to create a South Australian Centre of Excellence in Neurodiversity...
