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Who’s a Medicare expert? Anyone by law, no one in reality

18 Jul 2019

Written by Margaret Faux – Founder & CEO at Synapse Medical Services, published in Medical Observer, 16th July 2019.
Does experience or education make an expert, or both?
Like knowing exactly when to enter a roundabout, the word ‘expert’ feels imprecise and poorly def…

A History of Medical Records in the Ancient World

15 Jul 2019

Medical records have a surprisingly long and illustrious history, stretching back to ancient civilisations like those in Egypt, Greece and Rome. Just as today medical records are our only evidence that a medical procedure or attempted cure has taken place, ancient stone …

Medicare asking one million patients to hand-deliver cheques to pay doctors

4 Jul 2019

A recent article in the Australian Doctor highlights renewed calls to reform the 90-day cheque scheme, stating Medicare is mailing more than 1.2 million paper cheques – totalling $320 million – for patients to pay their doctors, under a system referred to as a “living relic …