Regulation and safety
Cancer Institute NSW seeks legal advice on keeping AI mammography software in use after its ARTG listing was cancelled (opens in a new tab)
The TGA says it has no specific safety concerns about the software.
Edition of Thursday 5 November 2026.
Australia
Primary care and general practice
Industry and vendors
Heidi and Canva each shed roughly one in five staff a day apart, flipping Australia's health-tech talent market (opens in a new tab)
Health Services Daily says the cuts also shift the balance between established EMR vendors and AI newcomers.
Australian start-up Pathways builds an AI platform for pre-surgery assessments to cut hospital admin (opens in a new tab)
It targets repeated collection of medical histories, medications and risk details across the surgical journey.
World
Rest of the world
NICE drafts guidance allowing five AI prostate cancer imaging tools in the NHS during a two-year evidence period (opens in a new tab)
Named tools include Siemens' AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR and DeepHealth Prostate.
Health New Zealand's first Clinical AI Academy brought 27 participants together for three days in Wellington (opens in a new tab)
Topics included AI in surgery prep, radiology referrals and diabetes.