Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.

Segment 1: AI goes mainstream

Segment 2: Modernisation, Standards, and the Path to Integration

Segment 3: Risk, Governance & its Relationship to Innovation

Resources:

• Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Australian digital health Link
• Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: New Zealand digital health Link

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Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now - from billion-dollar hype to human-level trust.

Are AI Scribes The Billion-Dollar Burnout Band-Aid?

Doctors adore them, investors can’t stop funding them - We dig into the paradox of technology that makes clinicians happy but might not be improving productivity—and why transparency is becoming urgent as these tools expand into agentic workflows.

Chatbots in Therapy: When AI Joins the Session

From therapists secretly using ChatGPT mid-session, to patients uploading their medical records for advice, and one founder shutting down his AI therapy app over safety fears — can AI-mediated care ever truly be therapeutic?

New Zealand’s Digital Déjà Vu

After a tough 2024, New Zealand’s back with a 10-year digital health plan, a new Centre for Modernisation, and a promise of one innovation a month. But with no funding announcement and an election looming, is this genuine commitment or just another round of hopeful planning? Tender watch is on.

MIT’s Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies

MIT Technology Review’s annual list has brain–computer interfaces voted readers’ #11 pick. Are BCIs about to finally enter their translation era? And would George drill a hole in his head for the tech?

The BMJ vs. TikTok Medicine

What happens when money, marketing, medicine, and misinformation collide? Raffael Heiss can tell you as he’s mapped it. Spoiler alert: it’s not god. Tina Purnat argues we can't regulate this away—we need to recognise the information environment as a determinant of health.

Resources:

• AI Scribes paper, NEJM AI Link
• NZ DH Strategy, Pulse+IT Story Link
• MIT Technology Review’s Breakthrough Tech List Link
• Public health challenges of ‘medical influencers’ BMJ Link

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Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.

What happens when AI becomes a valued third party in the clinical consultation between a clinician and the patient? George and Louise sit down with author and postdoctoral research fellow Dr David Fraile Navarro to discuss the British Medical Journal special on generative AI in the clinical encounter.

Resources:

• Connect with David on LinkedIn Link
• BMJ special on Generative AI and the Clinical Encounter Link

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