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A team of researchers at Monash University and The Alfred Hospital’s Department of Infectious Diseases have been awarded $3.4 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) for the SuperbugAi Flagship project.

Faced with a shortage of equipment, a Canadian doctor has rigged up a ventilator to serve nine patients concurrently.

Lenovo's Data Centre Group has been working with the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre to explore how AI can improve the accuracy of retinal disease scanning, with AI, deep learning and the future of AI in the enterprise also beneficiaries.

Dr Joanna Batstone, VP, and Lab Director, IBM Research and CTO IBM A/NZ, talks ‘cognitive computing’ which could represent ‘the beginning of a fourth industrial revolution.’

Cognitive computing will supplant transaction processing as the dominant workload within a decade, IBM Watson CTO Rob High told the GPU Technology Conference.

A new medical app has the ability to transform mobile phones into potentially life-saving devices by showing a user’s critical medical details on the locked screen.

Swinburne University of Technology researchers have developed a technique that uses nanotechnology to increase the storage capacity of optical discs and encrypt the data they carry.

Royal District Nursing Service has picked InterSystems HealthShare™ as its healthcare informatics platform.

The winning team in the Australian round of Microsoft's Imagine Cup developed a digital stethoscope that can diagnose pneumonia, the largest killer of children under 5.

BrainyApp, a new Australian iOS app, promotes a healthy lifestyle with the aim of staving off Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

The University of Melbourne is part of a project to demonstrate the use of IP TV to deliver professional and further education content around the state.

A new iOS app delivers health and medical information from the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel.

#1 Medical App of Apple Store Comes to The Android Market to Offer Information About Over 20,000 Drugs

The Australian medical community has taken another step forward with AARNET, Australia's Academic and Research Network, streaming a series of video demonstrations of gastrointestinal endoscopy techniques from Australia to countries in the Asia-Pacific.

Microsoft has announced an ambitious project to help scientists, engineers and others create and run simulation models of real-world phenomena.

Aiming to dramatically improve in-home patient care, especially for the elderly and those with chronic illnesses, Intel's new 'Health Guide' will make a real difference in easing the burden on patients, nurses, doctors and the medical/hospital system and taking home health into the 21st century.