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Avant’s new AI solution helps book appointments

Avant Practice Solutions has previewed Xaida, a new artificial-intelligence (AI) medical receptionist that can handle inbound calls and help patients to book appointments. The Avant team gave a live demonstration of Xaida’s abilities at the Digital Health Festival. With advancements in agentic-AI, the digital assistant can handle a wide range of inbound calls as well as […]

Engage with us early on AI, says TGA

Suppliers of AI technologies in healthcare should identify early on whether they need TGA approval, while users should look for proof that AI’s “benefits outweigh the risks,” according to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)’s Tracey Duffy. Speaking at the Digital Health Festival in Melbourne earlier this month, Ms Duffy – TGA’s First Assistant Secretary of […]

Sparked Accelerator gains momentum, community grows

Continued funding for the Sparked Accelerator program is boosting healthcare data sharing in Australia, according to the program’s leader Dr David Hansen. Speaking at the Digital Health Festival in Melbourne earlier this month, Dr Hansen – Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) at CSIRO CEO and research director – gave an overview of progress in interoperability, […]

A new decade, a new mindset

In the next decade, the health system will ideally have a “mindset shift” towards personalised, proactive and preventive care, say Victorian health department executives leading strategic planning. Department of Health Chief eHealth Strategy Officer Emily Mailes said: “Currently, we wait for people to get sick and then treat them in hospitals. That model isn’t sustainable. […]

EMR experiences shared at DHF25

No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, the sooner you engage with clinicians the better, say some of Australia’s most seasoned electronic medical record (EMR) implementers. Sharing experiences on a panel “EMR – building for context specific needs” at Digital Health Festival 25 last week in Melbourne, the discussion turned to workforce […]

NZ’s $3.7b health tech sector on show at DHF25

New Zealand’s health technology sector is now valued at more than $3.7 billion and growing annually, according to Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey – who led New Zealand’s delegation to this year’s Digital Health Festival in Melbourne. “Health tech is New Zealand’s second largest tech sub-sector and is playing a significant role in the […]

Billions invested as Saudi Arabia announces a new AI zone

Saudi Arabia’s mission to be a global leader in artificial intelligence received a $5 billion boost this week with the announcement of a joint investment with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is partnering with HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s newly created company responsible for driving AI innovation across the Kingdom to build a groundbreaking “AI Zone” in […]

Concentric looking at Ireland

Digital patient consent leader Concentric may expand its footprint into Ireland, says founder and CEO Dafydd Loughran. Dr Loughran said Concentric was having “early-stage conversations” in Ireland, with two Dublin hospitals preparing pilot deployments. Concentric digitises the consent process end-to-end, embedding high-quality clinical content and facilitating shared decision-making well before the day of surgery. Patients […]

Embrace change, urges McCabe

Australia’s healthcare challenges – including workforce, huge demands on our hospitals and ageing populations, chronic disease and fragmentation in care settings– require some major changes to be made, the audience at Digital Health Festival 25 heard yesterday. Daniel McCabe, the First Assistant Secretary, Medicare Benefits and Digital Health at the Department of Health and Aged […]

Opportunities for digital seen in new portfolio

Minister Mark Butler’s new department will be called the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Following a reshuffle of Cabinet responsibilities, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has published a new Administrative Arrangements Order outlining the allocation of executive responsibility among ministers. The new arrangement transfers the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Foundational Supports […]

Oneview sets new standard for AI trust with latest ISO certification

Oneview Healthcare has this week announced its achievement of ISO 42001 certification, becoming one of the first companies on the ASX and in the connected care sector to reach the certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). ISO/IEC 42001 is a management system standard focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), and is intended to provide […]

AI-enabled iMedX coding module keeps humans in the loop

Health information management provider iMedX has launched its new HIM Companion Suite at this year’s Digital Health Festival in Melbourne, with the aim of consolidating coding processes into a single platform and removing the need for multiple coding solution providers. iMedX managing director Australia & New Zealand Alexander Zacher told Pulse+IT the suite was designed […]

QLD Health dedicated to digital

Dr Tanya Kelly described Queensland as an “avid uploader” to the My Health Record when she gave an update on the state’s digital initiatives at the Digital Health Festival today. Dr Kelly who is A/Deputy Director-General Queensland Health – eHealth Queensland, gave a comprehensive overview to a packed audience. On recent legislation she said: “What is […]

Goto.health first to offer allied health real-time payment

Goto.health, the allied health appointment booking platform, today announced a strategic partnership with global fintech leader Airwallex, integrating real-time payment infrastructure across its platform. This first-of-its-kind integration in the allied health sector enables instant payment settlement through the NPP, automatic appointment verification, and real-time analytics—expected to dramatically reduce the $247 million in annual no-show costs […]

Telstra Health announces new partners for ‘modernisation journey’

Telstra Health today announced the expansion of its digital health ecosystem with two new partners – Salesforce and Snowflake –joining existing partner Smile Digital Health. Telstra Health’s expanded technology partnerships support the delivery of its modernisation programme to connect care with “a trusted, unified platform”. The unified platform will be built on foundations of clinical […]

Minister to lead NZ delegation to Digital Health Festival

New Zealand’s digital health community is set to be well represented at this year’s Digital Health Festival in Melbourne, with more than 20 organisations attending as part of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise delegation. Minister for Mental Health and Associate Minister for Health Matt Doocey would lead the delegation and be speaking at the […]

Scripto startup puts therapists and patients ahead of paperwork

Scripto founder and occupational therapist Julian Corvin will make her entrepreneurial debut in the startup arena at Digital Health Festival 2025 this week, saying she wants her technology to be liberating for other OTs. Scripto is her innovative solution to support allied health professionals to meet their documentation obligations and reporting standards for the National […]

Relationships, collaboration, drivers for success at Adeney Private

When ICT project director Paul Gladwell joined the team to build Victoria’s Adeney Private Hospital in February 2023, he found it was a clean slate. “They were just starting to dig the hospital foundations next to the site office. There was an IT Design Specification for the core infrastructure – the boxes, the cables, the […]

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