Michael Morgan, CEO of Updox, a single collaboration platform of digital document management for out-of-hospital healthcare providers, discusses how healthcare can break free of the hold paper-based fax has on provider communications. He talks about how much time and money fax costs the average provider, how fax errors can leave protected patient information exposed, how greater interoperability between systems will cut down on fax use and why holdouts to going fax-free will still exist.
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The Health News – 28 July 2015
Overview:
• Australian National University researchers found a new molecule called RaxX seen in rice immune system, bacterial leaf blight that it can destroy 80% of crop in some countries if it develops early, and it has similar molecular mechanisms to that of HIV according to Dr. Benjamin Schwessinger.
• The New South Wales Premier Mike Baird and Medical Research Minister Pru Goward were given a tour of the Calvary Mater hospital where the trials for Australia’s first medical cannabis for terminally ill adults were taking place. The trial involves using both vaporised leaf cannabis and a pharmaceutical and the first results are expected next year.
• More should be done to address alcohol advertising in sports in the Northern Territory, and a good place to start would be Darwin’s famous Beer Can Regatta, a leading emergency medicine doctor Dianna Egerton- Warburton says, from the Monash Medical Centre in Victoria.
Fire and Life Safety in Healthcare Facilities [transcript] [audio]
Segment Overview: In this health supplier segment, Mike Crowley and Scott Aronson of Jensen Hughes Engineering and Consulting Services discuss the recent acquisition of Russell Phillips & Associates (RPA) , fire and healthcare facilities safety as well as life protection in large facilities. https://www.jensenhughes.com
Guest: Mike Crowley and Scott Aronson
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Michael Crowley, PE, is a Vice President of Development, focused on Healthcare with Jensen Hughes Engineering and Consulting Firm. His technical experience includes the development of fire protection programs for large facilities and proposing solutions for non-compliant items.
Scott Aronson is the Director of Strategy & Business Development for Healthcare at Jensen Hughes. Scott was most recently a Principal with Russell Phillips & Associates (RPA), working in the healthcare industry since 1994 on areas of fire safety, emergency management and accreditation compliance.
The Health News – 29 November 2016
Overview:
• The media has been blocked from a Supreme Court visit to the site of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site on Tuesday to look at five alleged building defects. The alleged faults in the $2 billion hospital include incorrect room sizes, air-conditioning woes, sewer pipes in a data equipment room, a 200-millimetre ceiling space and the height of a loading dock.
• NSW Premier Mike Baird and Health Minister Jillian Skinner announced the State Government would spend $550 million to upgrade the Nepean Hospital, and a further $26 million on the car park. Earlier this year, senior hospital staff spoke out about resourcing shortfalls and called on the Government to honour its election pledges.
• Sharon Bryce from the Australian Tissue Donation Network said the majority of people are not aware of bone donation. In the past decade 25,000 Australians have benefited from bone grafts manufactured in the Australian Biotechnologies lab.
The News – 06 Feb 2015
Overview
- Doctors treating Ebola in Africa are raising concerns about the emergence of “post-Ebola syndrome” among survivors of the deadly outbreak.
- Authorities are warning residents in Canberra to be careful around wasp nests, with a spate of serious stinging attacks occurring this year.
- Hundreds of schools around New South Wales could be contaminated with deadly asbestos and a government expert warns authorities are using band-aid measures to clean up the problem.
The Health News – 17 September 2015
Overview:
• South West Palliative Care Services is calling for volunteers to help improve the quality of life of patients with terminal conditions. The group is holding an information session next month for people interested in volunteering.
• Plans for a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the John Hunter Children’s Hospital in Newcastle have moved forward, with the construction tender awarded. Children are currently treated in the main intensive care unit at John Hunter Hospital.
• Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has signed agreements with New South Wales and Victoria to proceed with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Mr Turnbull signed the deals alongside NSW Premier Mike Baird and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
The Health News USA April 23 2018
- A federal appeals court has declared unconstitutional an Indiana law signed by then-Governor Mike Pence that banned women from having abortions because of the gender, race or disability, including Down’s syndrome, of their fetuses.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said the 2016 ban on “selective” abortions imposed an “undue burden” on the ability to have the procedure.
- Following an E. coli outbreak in 16 states, officials are expanding their warning, advising people to avoid buying “all types of romaine lettuce” grown in Arizona. The CDC issued an updated statement on Friday urging consumers not to buy or consume romaine lettuce “unless you can confirm it is not from the Yuma, Arizona growing region.”
- If you’re a 65 -year-old couple retiring this year you’ll need even more than that to cover health care and medical expenses throughout retirement, according to Fidelity Investments’ annual cost estimate. Fidelity estimates it will cost a couple $280,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, up 2% from last year and 75% since its 2002 estimate of $160,000. The math assumes a couple retires at 65 and is eligible for Medicare.
Updox CRM : Digital Patient Engagement
CEO of Updox CRM, Michael Morgan discusses why healthcare providers have to offer consumers a choice beyond portals, why a secure SMS text solution better reaches patients where they are – on their mobile phones (without the need for an app), and how providers can stop playing phone tag and better engage patients with HIPAA-compliant texting for appointments, scheduling, treatment and more.
The Health News USA November 11 2017
- Republican Governor Charlie Baker is questioning whether a wide-ranging health care bill under consideration in the Senate would save the state any money. Democratic Senate leaders are hoping for a final vote on the legislation later Thursday after debating dozens of amendments. Baker told reporters that while some of the reforms sought by the Senate might improve the delivery of health care, his big concern with the bill is that it doesn’t address costs borne by the state for Medicaid or other programs.
- Consumer sign-ups for Obamacare individual insurance plans were more than 600,000 during the first week of enrollment for 2018. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that during the period of Nov. 1 through Nov. 4, 601,462 people, including 137,322 new consumers, selected plans in the 39 states that use the federal website HealthCare.gov.
- A report released by Senator Mike Lee’s office says that opioid-related deaths are occurring more frequently among younger Americans, particularly those who are single or divorced and lack a college education. Never-married and divorced Americans are 32% of the U.S. population, but were 71% all those who died of opioid overdoses in 2015, said the report by the senator’s Social Capital Project, which examines various aspects of the nation’s social fabric.
The Health News – 22 May 2015
Overview
- The Western Australian Premier has vowed Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) will stay open despite increasing uncertainty surrounding the facility’s future, while denying he has broken an election pledge to upgrade the ageing facility.
- UN rights experts have criticised South Korea for demanding that a New Zealand woman undergo an HIV test before renewing her teaching contract, insisting she should be paid compensation.
- Guinea and Sierra Leone have reported 35 new Ebola cases in the past week, four times as many as the week before, in a reminder that the virus “will not go quietly”, a top World Health Organisation official says.