Yesterday
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The digital health black hole must be fixed
The Productivity Commission’s report on the failure of My Health Record should concern all Australians not only as taxpayers, but as consumers in an ageing society.
- The AFR View
This Month
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.
- Tom Burton
New deal! Five V Capital are creatures of Habit
Allied health providers have proved popular – and profitable – for a number of investors, including Quadrant Private Equity, Next Capital and Adamantem Capital.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This former Young Rich Lister just spent $700k to alter his genes
Nick Bell’s first business failed, his next made him millions. The serial entrepreneur’s latest business venture involves helping people live longer.
- Julie-anne Sprague
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Wesfarmers sprays growth bets, waiting for payoff
Wesfarmers’ hefty businesses proved their resilience in the pandemic. Now, with shares breaking $65 for the first time, Rob Scott needs us to think about growth.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
Solving the worker shortage with overseas recruits
NDIS provider Concept Care says a shortage of skilled disability care workers has driven the company to sponsor workers to come to Australia, helped with visas, loans and bank accounts.
- Sian Powell
April
SA’s Benson Radiology orders adviser beauty parade
Sources said Benson is making about $30 million EBITDA a year.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How under the radar I-MED is fighting fit after 20-year PE job
Tucked away in private equity, it is easy to forget about Australia’s biggest imaging company I-MED. But it is worth watching this year; it has a few ideas on the boil.
- Anthony Macdonald
Start-ups, dentists drain retirement savings in ‘super scam’
The value of super withdrawn for dental treatments nationally jumped 373 per cent to $313 million from 2019 to 2023, and Labor has warned of a potential crackdown.
- Hannah Wootton
Telstra mulls strategic review of its massive health portfolio
Telstra boss Vicky Brady talked up her desire to actively manage the telco’s sprawling portfolio at the half-year result.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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.
- Tom Burton
The Growth Fund on verge of $750m payday at Fitness Passport
The mid-market PE firm is in advanced discussions with Swedish bigwig EQT Partners to sell its majority stake in the gym membership network.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Adieu: Ramsay Health Care’s shrinking global ambition
Under-pressure Ramsay Health Care is taking a fresh look at its footprint, which could mean a major change in its strategy. Watch this space.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Ansell shows how to create new interest in an old story
Cheap stock never goes out of fashion. The key for a company is to issue it only occasionally, and make the most of when it does.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Weight loss
Trish lost 25kg on replica Ozempic. She fears for patients like her
Patients like Trish Miller are afraid their weight loss will come to a halt as the regulator mulls a ban on replica anti-obesity drugs made by pharmacists.
- Nick Bonyhady
March
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Can a vaccine slow down the Cochlear train?
Cochlear is firing for investors, but you have to wonder whether everyone’s getting a bit carried away.
- Anthony Macdonald
Healius in management shake-up after CEO exit
Australia’s No.2 pathology group is cutting costs in a restructure to try to turn around a profit slump, as UBS pushes on with a strategic review.
- Simon Evans
Dentists want exemptions as medical payroll tax disruption spreads
Dentists are urging state revenue authorities around the country to follow the example of South Australia and offer an exemption to new payroll tax liabilities.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
David Di Pilla draws line in the sand at Healthscope
David Di Pilla’s HMC Capital wants to make a few things clear about where it stands as a landlord to struggling hospital operator Healthscope.
- James Thomson
- Analysis
- Inside Government
Health chief invokes ‘AFR test’ in proposal writing overhaul
Blair Comley has applied what he calls “the AFR test” as he pushes executives in his federal health department to write and think more clearly.
- Tom Burton
