AI Governance for Medical and Allied Health: Protecting Your Patients, Your Team and Your Practice

Thursday 15th October, 2026

12pm - 1pm AEDT

Your team is already using AI. The question is whether your patients, your staff and your practice are protected while they do it.

Most practices arrived here the same way. One person tried a tool, it saved them an afternoon, and word spread. There was never a decision, so there was never a policy. That is fine right up until a patient asks what happened to their information, a staff member pastes something they should not have, or your insurer asks what controls you had in place.

This session is about putting the sensible structure around AI use that you would put around anything else in the practice. Not a lecture on risk, and not a compliance exercise for its own sake. What good looks like for a practice your size, and how to get there in an afternoon rather than a quarter.

What's covered

• What AI governance actually means for a practice, and the handful of things that genuinely matter
• Protecting patient information: what should never go into a public AI tool, and how to make that a rule rather than a hope
• Protecting your team: giving staff clear permission and clear limits, so they are not guessing or hiding what they use
• Your existing obligations: what the Privacy Act, your professional standards and your confidentiality duties already require, with or without AI
• Industry guidelines and your association's requirements, and how to check you are meeting them
• The paperwork that proves it: an AI use policy, a tool register, patient disclosure wording and an incident log
• What is changing, including the 10 December 2026 privacy transparency obligation, and where it fits in the wider picture
• What to do when AI gets something wrong, and why the record you kept matters more than the mistake

Where this sits for medical and allied health: the Privacy Act applies to health service providers regardless of turnover, so the small business exemption other industries rely on does not help you. Patient consent and clear boundaries around what goes into a tool are the two things to get right first.

Who it is for: Practice owners, directors and practice managers who are responsible for what the practice does, not only for what they do themselves.

A note on scope: This session shows you what good governance looks like and gives you the structure to build it. Applying it to your own circumstances is a conversation with your own adviser.

When: Thursday 15 October 2026, 12.00pm to 1.00pm AEDT, live online via Zoom.

Investment: $99 including GST. A recording is shared with everyone who registers, so you can still book if you cannot make it live.

Disclaimer: This webinar is general in nature and does not constitute professional, legal, financial or technical advice. It is your responsibility to determine whether the content is safe and suitable for your own practice, including your privacy, confidentiality and data security obligations, and we recommend you seek professional IT or cybersecurity advice before adopting anything covered in this session.