George and Louise break down the hot topics of the day, including:

• AI Scribes now regulated as medical devices in the UK - all pilots must cease until MHRA approval
• UK Government announces £10 billion digital health investment and AI Early Warning System
• NHS 10-Year "Fit to the Future" Plan - three major shifts including analogue to digital transformation
• Cybersecurity failures at WA's PathWest and UK's Synnovis directly impacting patient safety?
• Positive AI developments: FDA approves breast cancer risk prediction tool, Australian chemotherapy dosing AI

How does Australia go about integrating 300,000+ allied health professionals into the national digital health strategy? That topic and more are covered in the chat with our guest Anita Hobson-Powell, the inaugural Chief Allied Health Officer at the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

Connect with Anita on LinkedIn

Resources:

• NHS 10 year health plan for England. Fit to the Future Link
• National Allied Health Digital Uplift. Responses due 20 July Link
• Health Connect Australia Strategy, Architecture and Roadmap to enable health information exchange Link
• ANU Study on the Future of Digital Health EOI Link

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Special episode: Today on Pulse, we’re doing something a little different. We’re joined by one of Australia’s most respected voices in digital health — Dr Amandeep Hansra. Amandeep is a GP, a health tech leader, an investor, and a long-time advocate for innovation in healthcare. She is the founder of Australian Medical Angels investment syndicate and Creative Careers in Medicine – a community for clinicians who support each other as they explore ‘creative’ ways to practice medicine differently.

But earlier this year, the tables turned. In a sudden and deeply personal twist, Amandeep found herself not behind the stethoscope, but on the other side — as a patient, facing a series of debilitating symptoms that landed her in hospital. Within mere weeks she was back living her best life, but answers are still elusive.

Today, Amandeep is generously joining us to share her journey — not just as a doctor, but as someone navigating the complexities, gaps, and opportunities in our health system firsthand. This is a story about communication, access, digital innovation, and what happens when the doctor becomes the patient.

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On today’s show, George and Louise delve into:

Has China really built the world’s first an AI-Agent Hospital?

Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne has built a machine learning model to predict likely wait times in the emergency department, complete with a public-facing dashboard – how cool is that!

Whoops, the US FDA’s AI, Elsa, has problems coming out of the starting gate

Australian regulator the TGA has approved sleep apnoea tech on smartwatches. Is this the relationship saving tech everyone will want?

Congrats to the Bluegum Health Transformation team in Tassie for their early progress in transforming the state’s health system, enabled by digital and data.

Is there a fundamental mismatch between the goals of interoperability and monolith EMRs?

OpenAI’s all listening, all seeing, all dancing AI companion. What could be the applications and implications for healthcare?

And Louise chats with Julia Conway at the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority on pricing virtual care and what’s needed to make virtual a part of everyday healthcare

Connect with Julia on LinkedIn

Resources:

RMH Emergency Wait Times Dashboard Link

Overview of smartwatches & sleep apnoea detection Link

China’s AI Agent Hospital Research Paper Link

Bluegum Health Transformation Homepage Link

Dr Yousseff Aboufandi’s OpenAI LinkedIn post

IHACPA Virtual Care Project Final Report Link

ePatientDave’s Substack #PatientsUseAI Link

JAMIA paper how patients with brain tumours use LLM Link

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