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Flinders study tests vision-enabled AI scribe
Researchers at Flinders University have tested a vision-enabled AI clinical scribe combining Google Gemini and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and found improved accuracy in documenting pharmacist-patient consultations.
The system processes both audio and video from consultations to capture clinical details such as medication type and strength, achieving 98% documentation accuracy compared with 81% for audio-only systems. It also integrates features such as transcript generation and visual verification within clinician workflows.
The study, based on 110 mock interviews by 10 clinical pharmacists, suggests multimodal AI scribes could reduce documentation burden further, while highlighting the need for human oversight and addressing privacy, consent, and data integration before wider clinical adoption.
4DMedical raises $57M, receives EU CE mark
ASX-listed 4DMedical has secured AU$83 million ($57 million) in a private placement and received CE Mark certification in the European Union for its non-contrast ventilation-perfusion imaging software.
The company's CT:VQ software generates ventilation and perfusion maps from routine non-contrast CT scans without radiotracers. It provides quantitative lung function insights for radiology and respiratory care.
The EU approval and funding follow recent deployments at major academic centres in the United States. Based on a media release, 4DMedical is now preparing to expand its commercial rollout in Europe, where 400,000 nuclear VQ scans are estimated to be performed each year.
Orchestral to pilot medication safety AI in New Zealand
Auckland-based Orchestral, a venture under McCrae Tech, is in discussions to pilot its new medication safety tool, which checks prescriptions in real time to flag dosing and drug interaction risks.
Based on a media release, the tool, delivered through its AI orchestration platform, integrates into existing dispensing platforms to automatically assess prescriptions against clinical guidelines and patient medication histories and raise alerts to support decision-making under time pressure.
The pilot follows evidence of prescribing errors in New Zealand, including a one-week audit last year across 68 Midland pharmacies that identified 1,257 prescription errors, with over a quarter assessed as high risk for patient harm.
Telstra Health's e-requesting goes live
Telstra Health has launched Smart Connect, a pathology electronic requesting capability within MedicalDirector Clinical, with Healius Pathology Network as its first integrated partner.
According to a media release, the feature enables GPs to generate, edit, electronically sign, and securely send pathology requests directly within their existing workflow, using a FHIR-native health information exchange to share data in near real time between clinics and laboratories. Future releases will introduce radiology e-requesting.
Smart Connect adds to the MedicalDirector Clinical suite, which includes an AI scribe and clinician training tools.
