Future Thinking

In this Explainer, we examine national digital health and aged care strategies released since 2023, in Australia, with the aim of understanding how they fit together. We highlight the gaps …

Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) has used its response to the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Safe and Responsible AI in Australia discussion paper to reinforce its support of the development of a National AI in Healthcare Strategy.

A new paper published by leading Australian AI ethicist Stefan Harrer PhD proposes for the first time a comprehensive ethical framework for the responsible use, design, and governance of Generative …

In 2018 Australian researchers in digital health cited the many barriers hampering our world class health, medical technology, and pharmaceutical sector from delivering solutions that benefit Australia and Australian healthcare …

Our first report, Flying Blind: Australian Consumers and Digital Health highlighted the fragmented nature of Australian consumer health data. Volume 2: Flying Blind:  Australian Researchers and Digital Health turns its …

Improving the quality and safety of care for older people living in aged care settings is a key imperative for national health and social care systems globally. Quality and safety …

Telstra Health, the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) and CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre partnered to launch the understanding gender diversity in …

The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly accelerated digital health in Australia, bringing new ways to improve and support our health and wellbeing. But through this period of change, we’ve lacked an …