Insights & writing.
We write about healthcare and technology in Australia - the technical and regulatory realities of building it, what works, what is harder than it looks, and what we are learning as we go. Our writing is about our own work and the environment we build in; it never concerns identifiable patients.
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14 Jun 2026
For clinicians
Where the clinic day goes, and the workflow that gives it back
Two hours of EHR for every hour with patients, 4,000 clicks a shift, an inbox that never empties. The evidence on documentation burden, and the practice-management workflow that answers it.
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8 Jun 2026
For practices
Before you launch clinical AI in Australia, work out if it is a medical device
An AI scribe that only transcribes is not a medical device; one that diagnoses is. The TGA's medical-purpose test, the decision-support exemption, and what decides whether yours is regulated before launch.
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1 Jun 2026
For practices
What building compliant healthcare software in Australia actually takes
"Compliant" does a lot of quiet work in most healthcare pitches. Here is the engineering underneath it - data residency, tenant isolation, audit, retention - and the Australian rules that decide the architecture before a line of code is written.
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28 May 2026
Research
Privacy-preserving medical AI: federated learning, synthetic data, and the limits of de-identification
Most medical AI is trained overseas, on populations that are not ours, far from the patients the data came from. The techniques that change that - and why "de-identified" is a discipline, not a guarantee that data can never be traced back.
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23 May 2026
For clinicians
The state of ophthalmology software in Australia
Australian eye care runs on a patchwork of ageing practice systems and imaging devices that barely speak to each other. Where the tooling actually is, why it is stuck, and what good clinical software would do differently.
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