We’d have a different set of expectations from reforms to health care systems if we viewed events in our own health story as parts of our integrated life stories. (more…)
March 16, 2010
January 10, 2010
Prevention vs treatment
Which entities in the chlamydia industry lose if prevention is successful? (more…)
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October 2, 2009
This makes sense
At Science Daily Protect Children First With H1N1 Flu Vaccine (more…)
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September 13, 2009
Diffusion of Opinion is deadly
Lesley Russell, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, has written at least two recent articles and spoken for one radio talk on the Government’s planned reforms of health care. (more…)
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September 11, 2009
September 9, 2009
Working together to strengthen codes of conduct
To: Parliamentary Secretary for Health (more…)
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September 8, 2009
Good call, Bob.
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September 4, 2009
IdM
090904 how will new Vic licence data interact with other identifiers, including RFID cards
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September 1, 2009
More Medicare rorts
..Ten per cent of GPs, for example, claim 54 per cent of all Medicare items for chronic disease management care plans, (more…)
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Another windfall for KPMG
Health policy wonks spin the revolving door in Toolkit to cut hospital errors.
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August 31, 2009
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Vision for EHR at Forbes
I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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August 29, 2009
August 27, 2009
Public services contracted to private surgeons
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August 24, 2009
Returning home
Primo Levi, The Truce, page 286
But if we were Jews, then so were all those others, she said to me, pointing with a circular gesture to the eight hundred Italians who filled the room. What difference was there between us and them? (more…)
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August 23, 2009
Out-of-pocket costs for prostheses
The manufacturers of more than 2100 products on the list want health funds to pay between $1 and $7125 more for their devices than the price set by government. (more…)
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August 12, 2009
Some sort of balance?
In The Oz Decriminalise abortion (more…)
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