HSD readership just got a lot bigger in a really important sector for our healthcare system.
The Australasian Institute of Digital Health has announced a new partnership agreement with The Medical Republic group.
The move will see all institute members receive Health Services Daily as a part of their AIDH membership from April 1 this year for 2025 and 2026.
In making the announcement, AIDH CEO Anja Nikolic said that “an important benefit of …individual membership with AIDH is complimentary access to a reputable health-focused online news service”.
“At AIDH, we believe that digital health does not live in an isolated silo,” she told members.
“It is, and will increasingly become, an integral part of health service delivery, education, and policy decisions across the breadth of the health system. HSD’s coverage compliments this view.”
From the team at HSD’s perspective, a partnership with the AIDH couldn’t be more important in helping the group bring together all aspects of what is still a fairly fragmented healthcare sector on a day-to-day basis.
While the AIDH originally grew out of that vital sector of digital health that is hospital IT, it has grown over the years to become an organisation that recognises how vital technology has become to every aspect of the system and the vital role it has to play moving forward in unifying that system.
In our discussions with the AIDH, what soon became apparent is that both organisations were of the view that “digital health” is really just “health” these days, given it is such an integral part of healthcare delivery.
In this respect the core digital health community of the AIDH would likely benefit from the broader healthcare services view that HSD delivers each day.
At the same time HSD believes that while digital health is a core topic for all its audience, we aim to bring our audience a broader look at policy and happenings beyond core digital health topics that will hopefully inform better digital health business and technical decisions, as well as taking the significant expertise of the AIDH community to a broader healthcare audience where it can.
HSD will be encouraging its new AIDH readership to engage as much as they can with our editorial team on ideas and contributions moving forward that take the path of better educating the broader health services community about health tech. HSD editor Cate Swannell can be contacted by email at editor@healthservicesdaily.com.au
As well as a free subscription, AIDH members will also be getting HSD member rates for the key HSD summits this year (a 12.5% discount via an AIDH member code to be shared soon).
These include The One Health System Summit in Canberra on June 17-18 and the Future of Hospitals Summit in Sydney on October 16, which will focus heavily on the emergence of virtual care technologies within the hospital system. If you’re interested in a program or sponsorship, you can email us at greta@healthservicesdaily.com.au
One housekeeping question: what if I already have a subscription to HSD and are a member of the AIDH?
We can hopefully identify this overlap and send you a separate communication on how this will be handled, but essentially your HSD subscription will continue until it naturally ends, and your AIDH free service will pick up after that. Should the current partnership end at end time, any current AIDH member and HSD subscriber will receive the full year of HSD subscription past the end of the AIDH arrangement in April of that year (we hope of course we will stay together for a long time).
If you have any other questions on the partnership or editorial contributions in the. meantime, please email Greta on the email above.
Jeremy Knibbs is the publisher of The Medical Republic group, which includes Health Services Daily.