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Healthcare
Better Workforce Design is Crucial to Aged Care Reform
Dr Anita Goh, one of Australia’s premier experts on ageing and neurodegenerative diseases, will be speaking at the 12th Annual National Dementia & Aged Care Reform Conference in Melbourne, 23 – 25 November 2021. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI). We spoke with Anita on how the Royal…
10 Aug 2021, by Skye RytenskildHealthcare
Dr Anita Goh: “Co-Design Places Lived Experience on Equal Footing with Professional Experience.”
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has catalysed sector-wide debate on how to successfully implement reforms that will improve the lives of older Australians. Dr Anita Goh, one of Australia’s leading authorities on quality of life in ageing, says that co-designing care delivery with the people who will actually benefit from services…
9 Aug 2021, by Skye RytenskildHealthcare
Overcoming the challenges of perioperative care delivery in rural Australia
Bringing quality perioperative care to people in rural areas is an important, but challenging, experience. Rural Australians have statistically poorer health than those that live in major cities, with 20 percent higher rates of chronic disease; and a range of increased risk factors, including smoking, alcohol intake, and malnutrition. Mortality rates are notably higher among…
8 Jun 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare | Technology | Uncategorised
What Google is doing to enhance healthcare delivery – insights from Head of Innovation Scott Thomson
Upon hearing the word ‘Google’ you could be forgiven for not immediately thinking of healthcare innovations like AI protein folding algorithms, contactless sleep sensors, or robotics assisted surgery. But according to Google’s Head of Innovation for Customer Engineering, Scott Thomson, the firm’s recent efforts in the healthcare space are so substantial that they can no…
8 Jun 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare
Twelve months of providing at-home care – what have we learned? Insights from Ramsay Connect
Since its inception, Ramsay Connect has been on a mission to bridge the gap between hospital and at-home care. Twelve months since it became operational, what has the organisation learned about providing out-of-hospital services? Chief Executive Ian Galvin believes that, despite all the positive rhetoric and support surrounding the model, more work is needed to…
20 May 2021, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Care in the home – the future of healthcare?
A partnership between Medibank and Calvary is putting patients first and providing quality care at home, setting a precedent for how healthcare is funded into the future. My Home Hospital (MHH), a South Australian state government service led by Wellbeing SA and delivered by a joint venture between Calvary and Medibank, gives patients the option…
13 May 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare | Infrastructure
Leading a $19 billion health infrastructure portfolio – insights from Rebecca Wark at NSW Health
Delivering the second largest infrastructure portfolio in NSW - amid a global pandemic and fast-evolving healthcare delivery landscape - is no easy feat, but it is all in a day’s work for Rebecca Wark, Chief Executive of NSW Health Infrastructure. Over this term of government, NSW Health will progress the development of around 100 health…
1 Apr 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare
Enhancing the health of people released from prison
It is well documented that rates of physical and mental ill health are elevated among people in prison. Some conditions – including chronic disease, substance dependence, and mental illness - are usually brought into the system, whilst others – particularly blood borne viruses – may be acquired within its precincts. The RACGP estimates, for example,…
10 Mar 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare | Technology
Challenges and opportunities for telehealth – an interview with Dr. Rahul Gupta
They say adversity is often the catalyst for change and for the Australian healthcare sector, COVID-19 has been no exception. Faced with the awkward objective of treating more patients with fewer resources, the sector has embraced innovation quickly; upholding – even surpassing – usual rates of service provision. Telehealth has been pivotal in this response,…
2 Mar 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare | Technology
Real time prescription monitoring: an update
For decades, a paper based system has underpinned Australia's strict medicines and poisons regulations. Within this system, doctors have no way of knowing if patients seeking controlled medicines are living with an undiagnosed addiction and securing multiple doses of the same drug from different practices. Often, prescribing doctors say ‘yes’ and write a script because…
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