Posted on September 30th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
CANBERRA will target its $14.8 billion Medicare system for major savings and crack down on “cowboy” marketing practices for flashy new medical technologies.
Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has issued a strongly worded challenge to doctors, drug and medical device makers to stop resisting reform and to help trim costs by backing more cost-effective technologies.
“It is [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
The survey has just been release. This is a broad analysis of Health Informatics in Australia with 1,279 survey respondents, which were further supported by two workshops with 26 selected
participants having specialist knowledge of the Health Informatics domain.
The results is a comprehensive scoping document which describes the state of the Australia Health Informatics workforce and [...]
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Filed under: Career, Information Technology
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
Being part of a team can be a great learning experience when collaboration and discussion lead to new ideas and career growth.
But for some employees interactions with co-workers range from merely irritating to being a complete nightmare. To read more http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/02/09/cb.help.i.hate.coworker/index.html
(Photo courtesy of www.cnn.com)
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Posted on September 18th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
THE Australian Medical Association has called for priority funding for e-health adoption, saying the roll-out should start with e-prescribing and electronic sharing of essential patient information.
E-health is one of seven key areas identified for urgent action, with AMA president Andrew Pesce handing the doctors’ Priority Investment Plan to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
Online registration for the Congress is now available
I would like to extend an invitation to APHA members and all those involved in the private health sector to attend the 29th APHA National Congress in Melbourne from 11 to 13 October 2009.
The past year has presented significant challenges for all sectors of the economy with the [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
A LOCALLY developed chronic disease management system with potential to keep patients out of hospital emergency departments has an international patent pending on the core technology.
The Chronic Disease Management Network (CDM-Net) — which uses a web platform to support team care of people with complex medical needs — was launched by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
To read the latest newsletter from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner http://www.privacy.gov.au/materials/types/newsletters/view/6934
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Posted on September 14th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
IBM Australia has produced messaging software for secure routing of patient information that leapfrogs present health sector efforts to introduce point-to-point communications.
The middleware keeps track of who are authorised to get what information about which patients.
The health sector remains notoriously unconnected: doctors are largely unable to electronically send a patient referral to a medical specialist, [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
More than ever hospital managers must be able to effectively implement necessary changes to their organisations. The Leadership & Change Management in Hospitals Conference will offer you best-practice advice on dealing with the myriad of organisational and cultural changes your hospital will face going forward.
To read more http://www.iir.com.au/conferences/healthcare/leadership-and-change-management-in-hospitals-conference
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Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
PUBLIC submissions on a controversial plan to adopt Medicare-based numbers as healthcare identifiers will be published by the federal Health Department, following a backdown under consumer pressure.
Consumer groups have been protesting government secrecy and lack of consultation surrounding development of an electronic system of sharing patient records nationwide and, in particular, a refusal to release [...]
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