Hardware, plants, diastolic BP — Bunnings-based hypertension screening trial is just the beginning
A clinical trial is snagging Bunnings shoppers for a blood pressure check in a bid to reach patients who do not typically consider themselves at…
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RACGP publishes guidelines for GPs using AI scribes to draft medical notes
The RACGP has published guidelines for GPs using AI to generate medical notes based on recordings of their consultations, warning they could become over-reliant on…
‘We don’t know if it’s risk-free’: Experts raise fears about doctors using AI to draft medical notes
Regulators have no insight into the risks of the AI technology being used by GPs to record patient consults and generate medical notes, the Australian…
Could AI become the ultimate decider for end-of-life care?
Doctors obviously lack imagination. While the medical profession has been anguished at the prospect of their mass redundancy as a result of diagnostic machine learning,…
Patient medical data in MediSecure hack believed now sold on dark web
Patient medical data stolen in one of the nation’s biggest cyber attacks appears to have been sold on the dark web, possibly for US$50,000 ($75,000) a…
What you need to know about the new aged care incentive
Rural practices accessing the new aged care incentive can provide four of their eight annual visits via telehealth if required, the Department of Health and Aged Care says. The incentive,…
Patient names, medicine info and the doctor’s instructions among the data stolen in MediSecure hack
Hackers stole personal data including the health information of nearly 13 million Australians earlier this year, making it one of the nation’s biggest cyber attacks.…
GPs concerned as TikTok influencers encourage women to ditch hormonal contraceptives for period tracking apps
“I did an abortion clinic last week and every second young woman was using Flo.” Cairns GP Dr Heather McNamee is talking about the popular…
Specialist fee website charging doctors $250 a month outpaces govt’s $24 million alternative
Hundreds of doctors have been listed on a specialist fee website that launched last week, in contrast with the 20 doctors listed on the Federal…
MBS telehealth existing relationship exemption for patients with COVID-19 gets the chop
Patients with COVID-19 will be restricted to telehealth consultations with their regular practice from 1 July after Medicare scraps their exemption to the existing relationship…
