Dear members, ASOS has been monitoring all aspects of the health data industry. Apple has announced a major development that will allow all patients to control their individual health records from their iPhone. A complete model of how this will work is in the link, https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/06/apple-opens-health-records-api-to-developers/ How this development impacts [...]
Dear Doctors, friends and colleagues of the late Dr Bruce Shepherd AM A memorial service for Dr Shepherd will be held on Thursday 07/06/18 at St Marys Catholic Church, 42 Ridge Street, North Sydney @ 11.00am In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for a consideration of a donation [...]
The department is looking forward to receiving your feedback with regard to clarifying appropriate use of MBS items for spinal fusion. The email below invites feedback by 25 May. This email confirms an extension until Sunday 3 June, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Warner, Director, Medical [...]
Our friend, colleague and leader Dr Bruce Shepherd AM passed away at 7:30 this morning in Bowral, NSW. Dr Bruce Shepherd AM was the founder of The Australian Doctors' Fund (now Australian Doctors’ Federation), which, since its inception in 1990, has worked diligently to fulfil its purpose of "strengthening, defending and [...]
Dr Fritsch has put together the orthopaedics program for the Sydney Robotics Summit being held on Saturday 23 June. The summit is a multispecialty meeting focused on surgical robotic technology which has been organised by the Institute of Academic surgery at Royal Prince Alfred hospital. This year for the first [...]
The Medicare requirements for referrals to specialists and consultant physicians has been released by the Australian Medical Association which has been compiled to explain, in the simplest terms, the Medicare benefits rules for referrals and the implications of not adhering to them. 1. Referrals must be made in accordance with [...]
The Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS) has endorsed the statements made in a recent report by Move (formerly the Rheumatism and Arthritis Association of Victoria) regarding the benefits of joint replacement surgery for Australian patients. The report stated “Total joint replacement (TJR) is the cornerstone of surgical management of [...]
Since the inception of the Rural Doctors’ Settlement Package in 1988, Bega Hospital has been named within the hospitals eligible for that package. RDANSW believes that it remains as such. The newly named South East Regional Hospital (Bega) is located in a Modified Monash (MM) 5 region, thus more rural than most of [...]
Mandatory update training for assessors of permanent impairment in the NSW workers compensation system The State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) has gazetted the NSW workers compensation guidelines for the evaluation of permanent impairment 4th edition (the Guidelines). The Guidelines will replace the 3rdedition (published in 2009) for assessments of permanent impairment conducted on [...]
Dr Paul Stalley's letter regarding prosthesis listing and reimbursement process starts with "I would like to respond to each of the comments that The Department of Health has put forward in the document regarding “Issues for consideration at a round table on private health insurance, November 2015.” The issues for discussion are [...]
