Australia’s first digital hospital, Princess Alexandra Hospital, is continuing to expand its technological footprint with the introduction of TESA the artificial intelligence (AI) robot into the Oncology clinic as part of a limited trial into how AI can assist healthcare into the future.

A Princess Alexandra Hospital Speech Pathologist has led research into the effectiveness of strategy-based treatment for reading comprehension during the early rehabilitation phase for adults with acquired brain injury with all trial patients showing improvement over a six-week period.  

Princess Alexandra Hospital has been waging its own war on waste by introducing waste reduction and recycling initiatives throughout the hospital with a 600,000kg reduction in waste in 2018.