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Editor’s Note: The following is a guest blog post by Gillian Tickall, Chief Radiographer at The Alfred. The Alfred is a major tertiary referral teaching hospital that provides the most comprehensive range of specialist medical and surgical services...
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There is a lot of variation in how much doctors charge for a consultation ; for doing surgery ; and for giving anesthesia during an operation . One question all patients ask is - Why is there so much variation ? The general perception in a free-market economy is that anything which costs more must be...
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Editor’s note: We sat down with Gary Allbutt, who is currently a visiting relief radiographer in Cath Labs, Angiography and General Radiography, in North Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. We asked him a few questions to get his thoughts on changes in radiology...
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This is a pretty amazing story and she’s the second person in Australia to under go the procedure. She says it’s a miracle so far as she’s up walking again after being in a wheel chair for 2 years and if that were me I would be ecstatic too. In 70 percent of those treated there is no evidence of...
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Multiple Sclerosis, Australia, Stem Cells, Disease, Pain, Walking, Bone Marrow, trials, MS, healthccare
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Here’s the daisy chain subsidiary watch here with Optum Health, a division of United buying IPS Worldwide. With all the acquisitions and mergers going on today it gets to be a challenge to try and keep up on who’s buying who, and more importantly who’s combining and potentially analyzing data for...
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Mon, Nov 22 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Budgets, Australia, Data, Algorithms, United HealthCare, OptumHealth, behavioral underwriting, Asia, PPC Worldwide, IPS Worldwide
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Dermotique Skin and Laser Clinic in Queensland, Australia selects PatientNow as their medical spa practice solution.
PatientNOW, a leading medical spa practice management and electronic medical records (EMR) software company, announced today that Dermotique...
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This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is being emphasized here too is standards and better...
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Fri, Mar 5 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, elections, integration, Australia, Standards, healthcare reform, Prime Minister, taxes
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Yesterday we have the male rabbits and the stem cell created penis that was a success and today this story is for the women. This is actually a very good trial from what I read as women may now have an alternative solution for women needing reconstruction with growing stem cells. If...
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Thu, Nov 12 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, healthcare, Cancer, clinical trials, Breast Cancer, Australia, Stem Cells, Breast Surgery, Regenerative Medicine, reconstruction
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We have not heard the end of the Swine flu virus it appears and WHO is still analyzing the situation. There are still reports here in the US of breakouts and some school closings too. The mayor of New Orleans in in quarantine in China, who we all remember from his role in the Katrina hurricane...
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A couple months ago I posted on the serious issues of money also facing hospitals in Australia , so they appear to share the same failing business model we have for healthcare, but they do have the government who provides healthcare as a back up for those who do not have private health insurance. ...
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It appears many had to wait weeks to get paid, according to the article the situation has been addressed, but hospitals were running out of supplies and were going to local veterinary offices to get them. The hospital system reportedly owes approximately $23 million to about 6,500 creditors, sounds...
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Thu, Jan 29 2009
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This sounds a lot like here in the US, consumers dropping their private health insurance due to rising costs, except they have a public health care system to go to when ending their private health care insurance. BD ONE of the architects of Medicare has predicted 750,000 people will leave private...