Strategy
Good news. Thanks through a combination of tighter border control and social distancing, the growth of COVID-19 cases in Australia appears to be slowing down. Pandemics like this can be under control within our existing ...
I lived in a hospital until I was five years old. Catheters, scalpels, doctors, and pain were all normal to me. To play with me, my little sister would have to wear a mask because ...
Stop the world – I want to get off is the title of a musical created in the 1960s. Some 55 years later as we become globally enmeshed in a pandemic the like of which ...
Merely a brief introduction to mindfulness helps people deal with physical pain and negative emotions, a new study shows. The effect of mindfulness was so pronounced, they found, that even when participants were subjected to ...
This is a long post addressing two underlying issues with the current response to the pandemic that leave me concerned. It’s the longest post I’ve ever written. For those of you not taking action, or ...
Researchers investigated the skeletal remains of more than 30 individuals where minor and serious injuries were evident but did not lead to loss of life. The samples displayed several episodes of injury and recovery, suggesting that Neanderthals ...
“The #TheatreCapChallenge is an initiative from the PatientSafe Network in response to concerns about how easily avoidable mistakes and poor communication are contributing to rising adverse events for our patients. It has been adopted around the world ...
The new health care practice of ‘hotspotting‘ — in which providers identify very high-cost patients and attempt to reduce their medical spending while improving care — has virtually no impact on patient outcomes, according to ...
Last November 20, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar gave a powerful speech on health inequality. She called for government at all levels in Australia to “flip the system from crisis ...
Australia’s National Digital Health Strategy – Safe, Seamless and Secure: evolving health and care to meet the needs of modern Australia. Download: https://conversation.digitalhealth.gov.au/sites/default/files/adha-strategy-doc-2ndaug_0_1.pdf Digital information is the bedrock of high–quality healthcare. The benefits for patients ...
I wanted to share two recent great examples of embracing the future. When I read about these two examples, the thought coming into my head was – “some organisations talked about innovation, while others just ...
Patient care may be our core “business”; however, our employees are where we should focus our efforts. Producing high-quality care and optimal outcomes are dependent upon who we have on our team and how we ...