About Digital Doctor
Digital Doctor is an independent long-form journal about the screens, records and rules that now sit between Australians and their clinicians. The name is older than this rebuild. The beat is the same: digital health as it is actually practised, not as a vendor slide deck.
The original digitaldoctor.com.au sat in a crowded field of health sites. Wayback snapshots were not usable when we reconstructed the title, so we inferred the niche from the name and from the Australian system it obviously belongs to: Medicare telehealth, My Health Record, electronic prescribing, community pharmacy and the hard yards of rural access.
We are not a clinic, a telehealth marketplace or a device company. We do not take appointments. Nothing here is personal medical advice. When a piece names a government program or a professional rule, it is journalism about that program, not an official handbook.
Read the editorial standards, the guest-post guidelines, or contact the editors. Image sources live on the credits page.
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Dr Elise Tan
GP and digital health editor · Melbourne
Elise is a general practitioner in inner Melbourne and the journal's founding clinical editor. She writes about telehealth, wearables and the moments a screen is the wrong instrument.
James Okonkwo
Health systems reporter · Sydney
James reports on Medicare, agencies and the consumer market for digital care. He previously covered health policy for metropolitan newspapers.
Priya Nair
Medicines and pharmacy editor · Brisbane
Priya is a pharmacist-turned-editor. She covers electronic prescribing, community pharmacy and the digital kit that people with diabetes actually use.
Samira Haddad
Rural and community correspondent · Adelaide / remote placements
Samira writes from regional clinics and community-controlled services. Distance, bandwidth and trust are her usual beats.
Tom Brennan
Privacy and technology editor · Canberra
Tom covers My Health Record, interoperability, AI scribes and the Australian Privacy Principles as they land on a phone in a kitchen.
Dr Maya Chen
Aged care and hospital liaison · Adelaide
Maya is a geriatrician who writes about discharge summaries, medication charts and the digital work older Australians are asked to do.