Australia

Interface of Coreline Soft's lung cancer imaging AI software
By  Adam Ang 02:09 am February 21, 2025
Coreline Soft announces Australia launch, new FDA approval South Korean medical imaging AI company Coreline Soft has made its way to Australia after securing a partnership with a major medical device supplier. It entered into a strategic partnership with ASX-listed ParagonCare, which aims at major hospitals launching lung cancer screening projects as part of the Australian National Lung Cancer...
Harrison.ai co-founders during a product demonstration
By  Adam Ang 02:53 am February 19, 2025
Harrison.ai has recently raised a total of $112 million in a Series C funding round led by Aware Super, ECP, and Horizons Ventures.  The earlier reported $20 million investment from the Australian government's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation adds to this pool. Ord Minnett, Wollemi Capital Group, Blackbird Ventures, and Alpha JWC Ventures also participated in this round.  Founded in 2018...
A photo of a person's eye
By  Adam Ang 06:55 pm February 11, 2025
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Victoria, Australia led one of the largest eye studies in the world that used AI to analyse eye images of over 50,000 people to better understand the retina's connection with various diseases. The international study, funded by California-based Lowy Medical Research Institute, tapped into a dataset of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images...
A radiologist reviewing an AI-generated chest X-ray analysis
By  Adam Ang 01:08 am February 10, 2025
Harrison.ai has received A$32 million ($20 million) in equity investment from the Australian federal government's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation. WHAT IT'S FOR The multi-million dollar investment, which forms part of Harrison.ai's Series C funding round, will help the medical AI company secure a wide base of hospitals and health facilities in Australia while also seeking expansion...
A patient in a virtual consultation with a doctor
By  Adam Ang 10:47 pm February 6, 2025
Healthengine allows direct booking from Google Primary care booking platform Healthengine has added a new booking pathway in partnership with Google. The Reserve with Google feature allows patients to book appointments directly from a practice's Google Business profile upon search. "This can help to boost online visibility, reduce drop-offs and increase appointment volumes," Healthengine said...
A nurse checking a patient's chart on a digital tablet
By  Adam Ang 03:27 am May 28, 2024
ASX-listed health data analytics firm Beamtree has signed a contract to deliver its AI technology to improve clinical coding at Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Service Group (HMG).  The A$3.6 million ($2.4 million) contract includes the deployment of Beamtree's PICQ, which automates the audit of clinical record classification, and RippleDown, which helps assess opportunities for automation of...
A person in a wheelchair holding a child
By  Adam Ang 02:34 am March 12, 2024
Melbourne-based startup Kismet has received $8.2 million in seed funding from a round led by tech investors Prosus Ventures and Airtree Ventures.  WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2023, Kismet has built a community engagement ecosystem that digitally connects care receivers, caregivers, health insurance, and healthcare providers in the in-home, disabled and aged segments worldwide.  Its web and mobile-...
A doctor reading a patient's chart while discussing it with another doctor on the phone
By  Adam Ang 01:08 am March 8, 2024
Magentus taps Google Cloud for genAI Magentus has engaged Google Cloud to help it build a "centralised and secure" foundation for customer data in the cloud, leveraging generative AI solutions and large language models. The health IT provider intends to assist clinicians in easily accessing information and simplifying the way they extract insights from complex, unstructured medical data, which...
A doctor checking a patient's medical record on a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 06:11 pm March 5, 2024
Australia-based not-for-profit organisation Crohn’s Colitis Cure (CCCure) has recently launched subscription-based access to its registry of data on patients dealing with inflammatory bowel diseases. The IBD-focused charity claims to have one of the world's largest databases of real-time patient-reported and clinical data on IBD, including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and IBD-undetermined...
Virtus Health nurses assisting a patient in bed
By  Adam Ang 10:46 pm February 28, 2024
Assisted reproductive service provider Virtus Health is taking its customer relations management to the cloud, enhanced by AI.  It has chosen American company RingCentral to deliver an integrated communications and contact centre solution across its 62 fertility clinics, day hospitals, and diagnostics centres worldwide, mostly in Australia. Featuring RingCentral MVP and Contact Centre, the...