AAAiH Webinar: Healthcare AI: Hype, Hope or Humdrum?

Oct 9, 2020 | Events, News

Join us at our webinar on Healthcare AI – Hype, Hope or Humdrum? Artificial intelligence (AI) tools play an increasing role in healthcare, including in medical screening, diagnosis and treatment. This webinar showcases current projects in the Safety, Quality and...

Australian research field leader in Medical Informatics named

Sep 25, 2020 | News

Associate Professor Farah Magrabi has been named Australian field leader for medical informatics in this year’s Research Report by The Australian. The field leader is the Australian researcher with the highest number of citations from papers published in the last five...

AI-assisted EHR documentation will need human help

Sep 8, 2020 | News

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association this week shows that, although AI documentation assistants (or digital scribes) offer great potential in the primary care setting, they will need to be supervised by a human until strong...

AI in health care: Australia in danger of lagging behind

Sep 8, 2020 | News

AUSTRALIA risks being “left behind” as an innovator in artificial intelligence (AI) in health care, says a leading expert who is calling for greater investment and regulatory rigour in the field. “We are not seeing commensurate investment here in Australia, and many...