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Synapse Connect July 2022

25 Jul 2022

Dear Synapse Network,

Welcome to our belated first newsletter for 2022, and boy is there a lot to update!

If there is one positive that’s come out of the ongoing Covid pandemic for us, it is that it has allowed us a period of consolidation and internal development, includ…

Medical Republic article – Australia’s health system still in the traveller’s cheque phase

21 Jul 2022

In the 19 July 2022 article for the Medical Republic, Dr Margaret Faux discusses that without the adoption of the international standard health information model, portable medical information still means carrying around pieces of paper.

“To get Australia’s health system out …

Advance Health Care Dubai 2022

20 Jul 2022

We’ve been receiving great coverage of our recent Data Driven Care Advance Health event in Dubai, featuring our CEO, Dr Margaret Faux & Business Development Director, Thom Soutter.

The event took place on Wednesday 22nd June at Dubai Science Park. Our CEO, Dr Margaret Fa…

COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 64, 18 July 2022

18 Jul 2022

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Hot off the press there are two new covid telephone item numbers for GPs which will commence tomorrow, and we also have an update about the 80/20 rule.

First the two new GP items.

We received an updated MBS file late this afternoon an…

Medical Republic article – Reform before rebate rise

8 Jul 2022

In the 5 July 2022 article for the Medical Republic, Dr Margaret Faux discusses why she believes we need Medicare reform before rebates can rise.

“So, what we have is a failed policing system where some very good clinicians are having their lives destroyed for unintentionally …

COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 63, 07 July 2022

7 Jul 2022

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Just a quick update.

As we flagged in Bulletin 62, the department made an error last week, which is has now corrected.

Items 91834, 91835, 92431 and 92432 have now been officially removed from the MBS.

The 30/20 rule still has not …

Article by Adele Ferguson on the big losses of tax payer’s money from billing errors through Medicare system

5 Jul 2022

In the July 4, Financial Review opinion piece, Medicare fraud, errors are costing $7b a year, by Adele Ferguson, Dr Margaret Faux is interviewed about the billing errors of medical practitioners through Medicare system amounting to losses of billions of dollars a year.

Read th…

COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 62, 01 July 2022

1 Jul 2022

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Unsurprisingly, there was another 11th hour change announced late yesterday, and we have had a few excellent questions overnight. First though the announcement.

The Federal Health Minister, the Hon Mark Butler MP, has decided to postpone…

Synapse Coding Manager chosen as the co-chair for openEHR International Education Program Board.

1 Jul 2022

Congratulations to our digital health expert and coding manager, Heather Grain, who has been elected as co-chair for the openEHR international Education Program Board.

Heather has years of practical and strategic leadership in EHR and terminology design and development. A long…