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Mercy Health joins Call to promote ‘algorethics’
Mercy Health has joined global tech leaders and public and private institutions worldwide in endorsing the Vatican’s ethical approach to artificial intelligence as the first Australian health and aged care provider to sign the Rome Call for AI Ethics.
Mercy Hospital’s at-home program HITH the spot
Werribee Mercy Hospital has won a 2025 Victorian Healthcare Award for its Neonatal and Paediatric Hospital in the Home (HITH) program. Source: Mercy Health.
St Vincent’s to shift half its services to at-home or online care by 2030
St Vincent’s, the country’s largest network of non-profit public and private hospitals, will shift half of all its services to at-home or online care by 2030, devoting hospital space to intensive care and emergency wards. Source: The Australian.
States say Government must boost funding for public hospitals
State and territory leaders have launched a coordinated attack on the Albanese Government’s handling of increasingly strained public hospital funding negotiations, declaring they cannot sacrifice hospital care to bolster the Commonwealth’s budget bottom line. Source: ABC News.
Delegation’s visit brings together mission and innovation
A senior Vatican official and Samsung Health executives spent a week in Australia touring Catholic hospitals as part of a visit that brought together mission and innovation. Source: CHA.
Don’t lose sight of human dignity when using technology: Pope
The more fragile a human life is, the greater the responsibility of those charged with caring for it, whether in person or through the use of technology, Pope Leo XIV said this week. Source: CNS.
Euthanasia critic says acting ethically central for effective health care
Emergency physician Stephen Parnis will tell medical and health professionals why acting ethically, even if it comes at a personal or professional cost, is central for safe, effective health care. Source: ACU.
Butler under fire over plans to cut spending
Health Minister Mark Butler’s plans to rein in spending on the $220 billion care sector are coming under attack, as state premiers take Labor to task over hospital funding and disability reform. Source: The Age.
Pope chooses theme for World Day of the Sick
Loving someone who is sick requires “concrete gestures of closeness”, just like that shown in the Gospel story of the Samaritan who helps the person beaten by thieves, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development says. Source: CNS.