This Month
Ramsay Healthcare chief says the age of AI care is coming
The CEO of Australia’s biggest private hospital operator has flagged greater AI adoption as a way to help improve services.
March
AI agents the new frontier in digital banking
The new wave of digitisation is overhauling digital banks, but experts warn that differentiation will be increasingly difficult to achieve.
Denholm charts a path through the US-China AI wars
The Tesla chairwoman sees opportunities for Australia to be a neutral and safe place amid a tech arms race.
February
Westpac works with Accenture to deploy AI agents
The bank has already used agentic AI to assist its engineers move code to new cloud-based systems. Triaging mortgage applications could follow.
Why Deloitte is giving away 2000 laptops
A staggering one in five students do not have access to a computer at home, but social enterprise WorkVentures hopes to change that.
November 2024
Incoming Westpac boss Anthony Miller takes on bank’s tech rescue
A $3 billion-plus technology project known as Unite will become a key plank of the new Westpac boss’ agenda when he takes the reins next month.
October 2024
Office workers in massive AI trial report saving an hour a day
Public servants who took part in a six-month trial of artificial intelligence say it saved them an average of an hour a day, including the time taken to check its accuracy.
August 2024
$2.2b lost in federal IT fails after fifth project abandoned
An ambitious attempt to build a common back office system has been abandoned, with little opportunity to reuse the $341 million technology.
The hidden jobs revealed by the new skills atlas
A new digital jobs and skills atlas shows where the hidden jobs are and reveals surprising new trends, especially in regional Australia.
June 2024
Do view this at home: How the video art market works
Gone are the days when you needed a gallery-sized space to view digital art.
NAB kills its stablecoin, bankers decamp to form Ubiquity
The bank canned its digital Australian dollar, known as the AUDN, so Rob Waugh and Drew Bradford left to set up their own product, to be called Ubiquity.
May 2024
Don’t believe the artificial intelligence hype
Economic theory and the available data justify a more modest, realistic outlook for productivity gains from AI.
Medicare numbers, prescription information taken in MediSecure hack
The government has reassured Australians that no documents need to be replaced as a result of the hack on the little-known technology company.
Smart wallet encryption to get $23.4m budget boost
Amid a wave of identity theft, $11 million has also been pledged over four years to upgrade the Credential Protection Register.
Health portal ‘plagued by incomplete records and poor usability’
Poor usability and incomplete records are frustrating uptake of the My Health Record portal, while the Productivity Commission estimates benefits of around $5.4 billion a year if it can be made to work.
April 2024
Meet the doctors whose virtual ED is easing the load on hospitals
In outer Melbourne, a virtual emergency department has offered 250,000 patients treatment and created a model to help keep ageing Baby Boomers out of hospital.
Why government has an Excel problem
Swaths of the public service still have to use tools and manual procedures from the early 1980s, when desktop computing first arrived in government.
AI could ‘break the productivity cycle’ for construction
Engineering firm Aurecon says the developing use of artificial intelligence could supercharge efficiency on big projects.
March 2024
Why you might be about to see a lot more of this logo
myID, which could become as prominent as Medicare and myGov, will be the online tool Australians use to prove their identity without passports and licences.
When it comes to how we pay, Apple is coming for the big banks
Commonwealth Bank boss Matt Comyn says policymakers need to be alert to the dangers of ceding important industries to global tech platforms without scrutiny.