Insights & writing.

• 24 Jul 2026 For practices

  WorkSafe VIC, SIRA NSW, the TAC and Comcare: how the report actually changes by scheme

  Four personal-injury schemes, four rulebooks: different AMA Guides editions, different psychiatric instruments, different impairment thresholds. Why "the IME report" is a family of documents, not one.

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• 21 Jul 2026 For practices

  What the MBS actually pays for in eye care, and why billing is hard

  The MBS looks like a price list but behaves like a rulebook: frequency caps, referral windows, per-eye items and the multiple operation rule. Why correct billing is a rules-engine problem, not data entry.

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• 9 Jul 2026 For practices

  How a medico-legal report survives cross-examination: grounding every fact to its source

  A medico-legal report is evidence, and evidence gets tested. The discipline behind one that holds up: every factual line traceable to its source page, assumptions stated, and the gaps named rather than smoothed over.

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• 1 Jul 2026 For patients

  Where your eye scans go: your data when a clinic moves to cloud software

  When your clinic moves to the cloud, where do your scans and records actually go? Plain English on data residency, who can see your information, breach notification, and the rights you hold over it.

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• 25 Jun 2026 For practices

  How a referral actually travels: HL7 v2, secure messaging and the IHI

  The real plumbing of Australian health data, traced one referral at a time: the HL7 v2 message, the IHI and HPI-O, the provider directory, secure delivery and NASH - and where each one breaks.

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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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