Trenthos Research - Insights https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/ Writing on healthcare and technology in Australia from Trenthos Research. en-AU Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +1000 Where the clinic day goes, and the workflow that gives it back https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/where-the-clinic-day-goes.html https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/where-the-clinic-day-goes.html For clinicians Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +1000 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. Before you launch clinical AI in Australia, work out if it is a medical device https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/clinical-ai-medical-device-tga.html https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/clinical-ai-medical-device-tga.html For practices Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +1000 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. What building compliant healthcare software in Australia actually takes https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/building-compliant-health-software.html https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/building-compliant-health-software.html For practices Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +1000 The engineering underneath the word compliant - data residency, tenant isolation, audit, retention - and the Australian rules that decide the architecture before a line of code is written. Privacy-preserving medical AI: federated learning, synthetic data, and the limits of de-identification https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/privacy-preserving-medical-ai-australia.html https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/privacy-preserving-medical-ai-australia.html Research Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:00 +1000 Most medical AI is trained overseas, far from the patients the data came from. The techniques that change that, and why de-identified is a discipline, not a guarantee. The state of ophthalmology software in Australia https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/state-of-ophthalmology-software-australia.html https://www.trenthos.com/research/insights/state-of-ophthalmology-software-australia.html For clinicians Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +1000 Australian eye care runs on a patchwork of ageing practice systems and imaging devices that barely speak to each other. Where the tooling is, why it is stuck, and what good would do differently.