Telstra Health has just launched a new GP telemedicine service, ReadyCare, providing Australians the ability to connect with a doctor and receive advice, treatment, diagnosis and prescriptions using only their mobile phone or tablet. A team of registered Australian doctors have been hired to operate the service 24-hours-a-day, enabling consumers constant access to medical professionals,
Continue reading »DSS plans to build hospital interface with My Aged Care
The Department of Social Services (DSS) is investigating the development of an interface between hospital information systems and the new central client record for people receiving aged care services as part of the roll out of the My Aged Care system. While it is still early in the planning stage, the manager of the access
Continue reading »My Aged Care central client record goes live
All new entrants to the federal aged care system will from today receive a central client record containing demographic, assessment and service information that is accessible by the person, their families and care providers. Also from today, healthcare professionals including GPs and nurses can make a referral to aged care services through the My Aged
Continue reading »Leo Buscaglia on Education, Industrialized Conformity, and How Stereotypes and Labels Limit Love | Brain Pickings
“Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.” In the winter of 1969, shortly after a young woman he considered one of his brightest and most promising students committed suicide, Leo Buscaglia decided to deal with the flurry of confusion by starting an experimental class at the University of Southern California where
Continue reading »Leo Buscaglia on Education, Industrialized Conformity, and How Stereotypes and Labels Limit Love | Brain Pickings
“Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.” In the winter of 1969, shortly after a young woman he considered one of his brightest and most promising students committed suicide, Leo Buscaglia decided to deal with the flurry of confusion by starting an experimental class at the University of Southern California where
Continue reading »Elderly man trapped in a chair for up to four days after carer son died | Australia news | The Guardian
An elderly, infirm Victorian man is recovering in hospital after his carer son died, leaving him trapped in a chair for up to four days. A man in his 50s, who was acting as carer for his 89-year-old father, is thought to have died from natural causes, leaving the father alone and unable to care
Continue reading »Planning underway for Allen Bryant residents | Scoop News
Friday 26 June, 2015 Planning underway for Allen Bryant residents Plans are being made to ensure the appropriate placement and care of the people displaced from their aged residential care home, Ultimate Care Allen Bryant, due to last week’s flooding. via www.scoop.co.nz
Continue reading »The Huge Value Of Mindfulness At Work: An Interview With Ellen Langer – Forbes
Langer: The essence of effective leadership is mindfulness, which is also the essence of charisma. When you are mindful you are present. When you are present people notice it. When people experience you as mindful they then see you as authentic and trustworthy. We have done lots of studies on this, making people mindful and assessing
Continue reading »Mindfulness and leadership. Ellen Langer
via www.youtube.com Science based #mindfulness – when you're mindless you aren't aware that you're mindless unless you become mindful. #ellenlanger #mindful #leadership
Continue reading »Wearable technologies on the agenda at HISA joint seminar
The NSW branch of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) has teamed up with healthcare innovation special interest group HealthTech Sydney to hold a joint seminar on the potential for integrated and interoperable wearable technologies in improving patient experience. Being held at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Darlinghurst in advance of HISA NSW's annual
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