GPs blindsided as hundreds of children booted off public allergy clinic waitlist
GPs say they will be left to pick up the pieces after Canberra Health Services’ “unacceptable” decision to remove hundreds of patients from its public…
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Violent patients face hospital bans under state govt election promise
A state government vying for re-election has pledged to ban violent patients from hospitals and force them to pay for their ambulance transport if they…
Are you better at medical exams than clinical decision support AI? Judge for yourself…
A medical AI company claims to have released the “best medical AI model in the world” after its latest decision support tool scored 100% on…
Heidi launches AI ‘agents’ to take on clinical admin tasks
Australian AI healthcare company Heidi has launched AI ‘agents’ that it says can handle clinical administrative tasks, including preparing referrals and identifying patients due for…
Who needs the PBS? Mark Butler offers backdoor funding stream for pharmacist scripts
Yesterday’s announcement that the Federal Government will fund pharmacists to initiate oral contraceptives and prescribe for UTIs for all women carries heavy symbolism. It lies…
GP-led ADHD care improving access for children, Aussie study suggests
ADHD-trained GPs have “substantially improved” access to care, with children waiting an average of just three weeks for their first appointment, a NSW study has…
Doctors lash out at state AMA over pay deal vote
AMA Victoria and the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation Victoria have rejected calls for a revote on a narrowly approved pay deal with the State…
TGA concerned AI scribes are doing more than just transcribing
A TGA review has found that eight AI scribes on the Australian market include functions likely to qualify them as medical devices, which means they…
Urgent surgery referrals missed in hospital email bungle
More than a dozen patients have had timely surgeries delayed after thousands of emails were left unread in an inbox at a major hospital. An…
HPV vaccine linked to lower odds of preterm birth: study
Women who receive the HPV vaccination before pregnancy have lower odds of major pregnancy complications, with the association stronger among women vaccinated before age 17,…
