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ARTICLE · 22 OCTOBER 2026

Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare: Navigating Legal And Regulatory Challenges

Barry Nilsson
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising healthcare, offering transformative potential in diagnostics, treatment planning, and patient care. However, its rapid integration into health practice presents significant legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges. This article explores emerging technologies and provides insights into the current regulatory landscape and key risk areas associated with AI in healthcare.

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Scott Shelly
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Alexander Sheridan
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising healthcare, offering transformative potential in diagnostics, treatment planning, and patient care. However, its rapid integration into health practice presents significant legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges. This article explores emerging technologies and provides insights into the current regulatory landscape and key risk areas associated with AI in healthcare.

The use of AI in healthcare

Current uses

Australian healthcare settings have already begun to implement AI into daily practice,1 including tools that:

  1. listen to patient consultations and automatically generate notes, care plans, and orders for tests
  2. combine information about diseases and treatment pathways and suggest diagnoses based on patient symptoms

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