Healthcare providers will be able to access individual patients’ medication histories in real-time, the federal government pledged Wednesday, to reduce medication errors, adverse drug reactions or inappropriate use. Health...
Australian clinicians are still heavily dependent on paper-based systems to share routine information, new government data reveals, despite a decade of investment in digital health infrastructure. Healthcare providers still...
Australia’s flagship digital health accelerator program ANDHealth+ has secured $33 million in fresh funding from the federal government to expand its support for high-growth digital and connected health startups,...
We are well-practised in navigating the predictable milestones – youth, puberty, parenting – and we’re becoming more familiar with menopause and mental health. However, when it comes to dying...
New laws that will force health providers to upload pathology and diagnostic imaging to My Health Record by default or forgo Medicare payments will be introduced to Parliament next...
Six telehealth research projects will share in more than $5 million in grants to build an evidence-base for how the service can be best used, after broad uptake during...
ChatGPT-generated health advice becomes less reliable when it is infused with evidence from the internet, according to a world-first Australian study that highlights the risk of relying on large...
The federal government has extended the life of the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre to ensure its R&D program can reach translation and commercialisation stages, but has committed no...
Digital health businesses still face systemic barriers to scale despite being the fastest growing part of the sector, according to startup and scaleup accelerator ANDHealth. ANDHealth chief executive Bronwyn...
There is nothing like a pandemic to shine a light on the vulnerabilities and complexities in the global health and medical supply chains. Australia has tremendous capability across the...