Bellin’s Pete Knox on Accountable Care and Innovation
US healthcare is moving beyond fee for service with Accountable Care Organisations. While activity based funding or fee-for-service is a widely used model in healthcare systems around the globe it is...
View ArticleAbbott Government calls for Medicare overhaul
The Australian government has launched several groups to examine Medicare, including new funding models. The Abbott government has launched a review of the Medicare system, with a particular focus on...
View ArticleThe five pillars of patient care: Dr Joseph Siemienczuk
The Patient Centred Medical Home model has proven a success in the US. So what is it? Dr Joseph Siemienczuk is a pioneer in architecting what has become known in the United States as the Patient...
View ArticleHealth calling out for integration to innovate
Telstra Health MD Shane Solomon kicked of Health-e-Nation 2015 with a view inside Telstra Health Shane Solomon, managing director of Telstra Health, kicked off the Health-e-Nation Leadership Summit...
View ArticleAchieving valued outcomes by delving deeper into person-centred care
Reporting on CHIK's interactive Health-e-Nation leadership forum Josh Gliddon reflects on key discussion threads from the first forum of the day. The first Forum of the day at last week's...
View ArticleIntegrating prevention, primary and acute care
What happens when the country's leaders gather at Health-e-Nation? Josh Gliddon reports the conversation was compelling, the content was serious, and laughs were also on the agenda. . What happens...
View ArticleWhat Price Quality and Financial Sustainability?
Passion, Politics and Persuasive data were on the agenda with the power to move national and global agendas on the final Health-e-Nation Summit forum... The What Price Quality and Financial...
View ArticlePrimary Health Care Advisory Group to focus on chronic conditions
The membership of the Australian government’s PHCAG has been announced. The Australian government has announced the make-up of the newly appointed Primary Health Care Advisory Group, chaired by former...
View ArticleSunshine Coast Health Precinct open for business
The Sunshine Coast Council is set to host an investor night for its Kawana development The Oceanside Kawana Health Precinct on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is one of the largest health infrastructure...
View ArticleYoung medico on the rise: Dr Shannon Nott
Passionate medico Dr Shannon Nott is set to present at HISA's HIC2015 on telehealth and rural medicine in Brisbane next month. It seems that even with a year off to concentrate on a double masters in...
View ArticleFrom Emerald to Japan (and back again)
A veteran bush doctor, Ewen McPhee has emphatic views about how to get GPs to embrace information technology. There’s a long tradition of Australian doctors having multiple specialties. Dr Ewen McPhee...
View ArticleTaking a look inside the US medical home model
Dr Kirsten Meisinger on what Australia can learn from team care in the US. According to Dr Kirsten Meisinger, there has been a paradigm shift in terms of healthcare in the west, and because of this...
View ArticleBellin’s Pete Knox on social healthcare
US-based Bellin healthcare is pioneering the use of social media tools to improve population healthBellin Health, in the central US state of Wisconsin, is one of the leading Accountable Care...
View ArticleTech as an enabler for people with disabilities
Sean Fitzgerald uses his personal experience with disability to help others use technology. Fifteen years ago Sean Fitzgerald had a mountain biking accident, breaking his neck which left him as a high...
View ArticleCancer survivor McCrossin gets behind cancer education campaign
A new website and series of resources has been developed to educate patients and clinicians around radiation therapy. Broadcaster and journalist Julie McCrossin hasn’t had a drink or a smoke since...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....