The University of Adelaide has incorporated a new medical record system into practical exams for fifth-year students.  The move aims to provide a more authentic learning experience and better prepare students for real-world clinical practice.  Professor Adam Montagu, Director of ...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to Australia's healthcare, an engineering professor has said chatbots could similarly start to gain ground in clinical settings. ChatGPT, a chatbot that makes predictions based on a vast dataset of words and natural ...

Academics have offered a sneak peek into how artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionise hospitals in 30 years. Professor of Economics David Orsmond and artificial intelligence expert Dr Hamid Alinejad-Rokny said a machine that provides nurses with patient-specific data could be ...

Professor Enrico Coiera says his prediction that digitisation in healthcare over the past decade would lead to increased data-driven patient harm has come true. Ten years ago the director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University warned in ...

Nursing Review spoke with the course director of Nursing at Swinburne University, professor Karen-Leigh Edward, about the role of digital technologies like interactive dummies to prepare future nurses for their profession. Professor Edward said there is a high demand for tech-savvy ...

Hospitals have been using paging technology to communicate with healthcare staff members for many years. Pagers are low-maintenance and reliable, they have a long battery life, and have proved to be extremely reliable.As modern solutions have emerged, pagers have become ...

“I guess there’s a lot of pressure, pressure on us, and its, its very tiring and challenging to get breaks in and so on,” she says into her phone to no one in particular.  “We’ve had, you know, young people that have had ...

As a former nurse, it breaks my heart to know that more than 600 nurses have lost their lives fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past month, as part of the Future of Healthcare webinar series, I have spoken to ...

Curtin University is utilising games technology to create web-based video simulations aimed at helping mental health experts identify and better communicate with people contemplating suicide. As the World Health Organization points out, suicide is the second leading cause of death ...

Nurses have made headlines in the US for using social media platform TikTok to spread health information some believe is unhelpful. One such nurse was spotlighted for her video claiming that the best way to prevent STIs was to wait ...