Avive Health is opening its second Melbourne hospital, Avive Clinic Melbourne, in Alphington. The facility will offer 30 beds for specialist mental health care after a $15 million upgrade to the forme...
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...
Australia faces a mental health crisis with persistently high suicide rates and record psychiatric drug use, despite rising spending. ADHD prescriptions have surged from 500,000 to 4.5 million in litt...
In Australia, automated insulin delivery systems are expanding, but access remains unequal. The opinion by Dr Ben Nash and Dr Morgan Rayner explains that AID combines a continuous glucose monitor, an...
Clean Slate Clinic, an Australian virtual, doctor-led alcohol detox and recovery platform, has secured 4.3 million dollars to accelerate growth of its at-home model. The funding package includes a 2.8...
Isla Health announced the establishment of a European headquarters in Ireland, supported by IDA Ireland, to push its Digital Pathway Platform beyond the UK. The new base will be in Sligo, with 20 high...
South East Queensland's first regional digital plan was released by the Council of Mayors SEQ under the SEQ City Deal. The 10-year roadmap highlights telehealth, remote patient monitoring, accelerated...
Two rural general practitioners, Dr Bianca Howard and Dr Luke Davies, have joined the Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service in Western Australia after a five-year stint at the Ord Valley Aborigin...
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia released the 2025 National Consumer Sentiment Survey, based on 5,160 interviews conducted in early 2025. It shows that only a third of Australians have heard of...
Go Gentle Australia released the 2026 State of VAD report, examining voluntary assisted dying in Australia and New Zealand. It finds that restrictions on telehealth and electronic communications conti...
At the Informa Connect Virtual Care conference in Sydney, Eucalyptus senior legal counsel and head of public policy Lyndon Goddard urged industry self-accreditation for online telehealth to embed nati...
On International Trans Day of Visibility the Australian Human Rights Commission released Equal Identities, a human rights review of the experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia. It...
The HepLink telehealth service was launched by Hepatitis Australia to deliver an end-to-end care pathway for hepatitis C using integrated digital platforms. MediRecords provides the cloud-based clinic...
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...
Ireland's St Vincent's University Hospital launched its surgical urology virtual ward pathway in September 2025. In its first six months the programme freed 162 urology bed days and shortened post ope...
Associate Professor Joel Rhee, a GP with a special interest in aged care and the head of general practice at UNSW, led a 30-year analysis of Medicare funded GP home visits for a grant to the Australia...
Parliament House hosted the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre at its first Parliamentary Innovation Showcase, with health leaders, policymakers, researchers and industry representatives watch...
On election eve in South Australia, the Australian Medical Association SA released an election scorecard that maps major party commitments against seven reform priorities. The scorecard uses a traffic...
The Australian Digital Health Agency has created a national governance body for digital health, abbreviated as NCGC-DH, to raise clinical oversight of digital health tools. The committee will guide th...
Westpac NZ has released the Healthcare in New Zealand report, arguing the private health sector can help upgrade IT systems and adopt digital technologies. It calls for private investment to speed up...
