Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Private Health Insurance (PHI) Circulars issued by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing can be found at CLICK HERE.
The PHI circular 44/10 is now available.
This report is available on the Department of Health and Ageing website CLICK HERE
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Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The current edition of the Health Data Standards and Systems (HDSS) Bulletin is now available from the HDSS website.
To view Bulletin No. 158 CLICK HERE.
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The current edition of the Health Data Standards and Systems (HDSS) Bulletin is now available from the HDSS website.
To view Bulletin No. 157 CLICK HERE.
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Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
AUSTRALIA’S health system rates third out of seven nations in overall performance but shares last place with the United States on access to affordable and timely care, an American study has found.
The study came as Australia’s own official health report, also released yesterday, showed that while performance on most health and mortality indicators occupies the [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Private Health Insurance (PHI) Circulars issued by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing can be found at CLICK HERE.
The PHI circular 40/10 is now available.This circular outlines the KPMG Year 1 Review of the impact of the new Medicare Levy Surcharge thresholds on public hospitals report was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday 22 [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The current edition of the Health Data Standards and Systems (HDSS) Bulletin is now available from the HDSS website.
To view Bulletin No. 156 CLICK HERE.
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Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Prostheses and Devices Committee (PDC) Bulletin issued by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing can be found at CLICK HERE.
The latest Prostheses and Devices Committee (PDC) Bulletin 33 is now available.
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Agenda
1. Funding and Information policy in 2010: Context (Bruce Prosser, Director, Funding and Information Policy Branch) (Pdf, 64kb)
2. National Health and Hospital Network – Implementing Activity Based Funding Nationally (Franco Greco, Project Director, National Reform Projects) (Pdf, 76kb)
3. State budget and role of data (amended version with confidential information removed) (Richard Bolitho, Manager, Funding Policy, [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Private Health Insurance (PHI) Circulars issued by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing can be found at CLICK HERE.
The latest PHI circular 32/10 is now available.
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Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
AR-DRG and ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS development will be undertaken by the Centre for Health Service Development from July 2010.
The Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD) has been contracted by the DoHA to produce the next editions of these classifications – collectively known as the AR-DRG Classification System - between July 2010 and June 2013.
This work is currently [...]
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