YouGov published its list of the 10 worst business sayings months ago. Some I more than agreed with (”thinking outside of the box,” “blue-sky thinking,” “heads up”); some didn’t bug me too much (”at the end of the day,” “going forward,” “credit crunch”).
But it also got me thinking about my own version of the 10 [...]
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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 04/10 is now available.
(Picture courtesy of www.brisbanesurgeon.com.au)
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AN updated business case for a national e-health record rollout is being prepared for the Council of Australian Governments, but there is no guarantee the project will be considered this year.
National E-Health Transition Authority chief executive Peter Fleming said the business case for Individual E-Health Records (IEHR) “has been built, and it clearly ties into [...]
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Every woman needs to know the symptoms of ovarian cancer. Make sure you do.
One in 70 women will develop ovarian cancer in their lifetime. It could be you, your sister, your mum, your gran or your girlfriend.
Every year in Australia around 1500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and more than 850 women will die [...]
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FAMILIES will pay $150-$200 more a year for private health cover as premiums jump by an average of 5.78 per cent.
The nation’s biggest insurer, Medibank Private, lifted premiums by 5.74 per cent, while smaller insurers such as GMHBC posted rises above 7 per cent.
The election-year hit to family budgets is just below the 6.02 per [...]
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CONTROVERSIAL guidelines that will allow “well-known personalities” to have fake health ID numbers will be written, starting next week.
Every Australian from July will be automatically issued a new 16-digit health number.
Also known as a “building block”, the health number will eventually allow for medical professionals to share patient health files via an electronic health record.
Legislation [...]
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A lack of specific guidelines to help surgeons decide how to prioritise public hospital patients’ elective surgery may be compromising patient care, according to an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Dr Andrea Curtis, a Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University and Prof John McNeil, Head of [...]
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TREASURER Wayne Swan says subsidies for well-off Australians should be scrapped as the coalition appears intent on blocking federal government plans to means test private health insurance rebates.
The government will have another trigger for a double dissolution election on Monday if the coalition rejects, for a second time, Labor’s plan to make wealthier Australians pay [...]
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AUSTRALIA’S hospitals are being paid to harvest transplant organs from dead patients.
A controversial new “activity-based funding” program administered by the federal Organ and Tissue Authority is telling hospitals they can receive up to $11,400 for each patient who becomes a donor.
The funding is aimed at securing consent from grieving families and encouraging hospitals to keep [...]
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The Call for Abstracts is now open for the National Forum on Safety and Quality in Health Care at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, 25-27 October 2010. The theme for the Forum, which will be hosted by The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), in collaboration with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in [...]
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