Medical Technologies (MedTech) stories

Australian healthtech AirHealth uses on-prem AI and cloud storage for real-time pollen forecasts, reshaping asthma and allergy care.

Audika Australia will roll out Oticon Zeal, a discreet AI-powered hearing device aimed at boosting early testing and breaking stigma.

From Argentina to Adelaide, data analyst Jessica Molina Calabrese reveals how global experience can power a tech career in Australia.

Women power the NHS but are sidelined in healthtech, leaving the tools meant to transform care shaped in rooms they rarely occupy.

Cicada opens applications for its 2026 Tech23 deep tech week, seeking 23 startups as alumni funding tops USD $280 million nationwide.

Holographic doctor in Ghana shows how immersive tech can deliver trusted breast cancer education to remote women and reshape care.

Aurora Tech names 10 women-led startups from emerging markets as finalists for non-dilutive funding and investor access in Santiago.

Health AI firm Heidi launches Evidence and Comms tools and buys UK-based Automedica to grow its clinical decision and patient support platform.

AIBUILD unveils emotion-tracking home robots that learn seniors' routines to flag early risks of falls, isolation and cognitive decline.

Sue Ryder will deploy Heidi's NHS-approved AI scribe across UK hospices, aiming to cut paperwork and free clinicians for patient care.

QHeart will begin a first-in-human trial of its pumpless Transcatheter Aortic Recoil Repair heart failure device in Australia in 2026.

A Copenhagen startup says its Argus software can generate full eye prescriptions from a single smartphone photo in under a minute.

Compumedics secures AUD $4.2m MEG order from Shandong Normal University in China, lifting total contracted MEG orders to about AUD $30m.

Compumedics posts record H1 orders and 32% revenue jump, reaffirms FY26 targets and readies Somfit D launch in US home sleep market.

For Purpose Aged Care backs Acredia in an AI-driven rebuild of its aged care software platform, aiming to modernise systems nationwide.

AMD maps 'yotta-scale' AI future with Helios platform, new chips across data centre to edge, and a USD $150m education pledge.

AI-powered music therapies promise relief for dementia and Parkinson's patients, but tangled licensing rules could stall life-changing apps.

Melbourne-based Bodd raises AUD $15 million to fuel global rollout of its 3D body scanning tech across defence, aviation and healthcare.

Decidr is set to acquire US AI platform Sugarwork, enhancing AI onboarding and knowledge tools across Asia-Pacific with integration into DecidrOS by 2025 year-end.

An effective ALS treatment could create up to USD $143 billion in value over ten years, easing healthcare burdens in seven major economies including the US and UK.