It’s not just patients who turn to Google or other search engines to research medical information. According to Google, 86 percent of doctors say they now regularly use the Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a springboard to look for general information about diseases and [...]
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The July 2010 revision to the National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD) including national minimum data sets (NMDS) has now been released and is available on the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) website.
To read more CLICK HERE
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The July 2010 revision to the National Community Services Data Dictionary (NCSDD) including national minimum data sets (NMDS) has now been released and is available on the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) website.
To read more CLICK HERE
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THE loathed Coalition health and welfare Access Card is suddenly back on the agenda.
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey is proposing to use the mandatory new healthcare identifiers to monitor people on benefits.
A spokeswoman for Mr Hockey said the idea was not Coalition policy, but would be considered by an Abbott government.
However Mr Hockey told The [...]
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Does your hospital have a social media policy? And if so, does it extend to employee use of sites not hosted by your organization?
One thing I’ve noticed while perusing hospital social media policies that were lurking on the web is that most seem to refer only to terms and conditions that apply to medical center-sponsored [...]
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A truer statement may never have been written about health IT: “electronically delivered patient information is only as useful as its capacity to be used.”
That line is from a Hospitals & Health Networks story about its “Most Wireless” organizations for 2010. Many of the 25 on the list this year have the capacity to access, [...]
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Of all the software on your PC, the Web browser may be the most important tool you use each day–but you may not give it much thought. The difference between a merely good browser and a great one, however, can be vast. The best browsers are those that stay out of your way: When you’re [...]
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CENTRELINK and Medicare door-greeters will use handheld devices to access customers’ information and direct them to a seat instead of a queue.
Human Services Department ICT infrastructure deputy secretary John Wadeson said photos of recession-times always showed queues, and were “symbolic of people having to line up for government services”.
But queues had no place in today’s [...]
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The Federal Government’s $466.7 million e-health records scheme will shortly start to surface in patients’ lives in the real world, with Health Minister Nicola Roxon announcing three trial general practitioner networks that will start to implement the technology.
Labor allocated the money in the last Federal Budget after years of the health industry and technology experts [...]
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Medical students would like to use video games in med school, according to findings from a survey published online in BMC Medical Education. Virtually all of the students surveyed (98 percent) like the idea of using technology to enhance healthcare education; four in five think that video games could be educational.
The findings are perhaps not [...]
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