The GP angel investor: ‘A lot of frustrated clinicians like me are in the system wanting to fix it’
When Dr Amandeep Hansra graduated, she struggled to pick a specialty. “One week I wanted to be a surgeon, the next week I wanted to…
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Is implanting spinal cord stimulators for pain really the next pelvic mesh scandal?
For months, private health insurers have been demanding that the TGA stop doctors implanting spinal cord stimulators. Private Healthcare Australia says the devices, which involve…
Pancreatitis, party mishaps and panic — the clinical cases where AI fails
Imaging misinterpretation was meant to fall quickly to AI’s diagnostic supremacy, but a study of 150 clinical challenges suggests that imaging, numbers and party hijinks…
Meet the GP who engineered his own AI assistant: ‘My clinical work still pays better’
Dr Horst Herb is a rural GP by day. His evenings, however, are dedicated to coding an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assess studies before…
Scammers try to steal money from GPs buying tickets to international medical conference
Scammers are targeting GPs with fraudulent versions of an upcoming conference being staged by the World Organisation of Family Doctors. Organisers have urged GPs who…
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…
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…
