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Synapse Connect October 2021

14 Oct 2021

Dear Synapse Network,

Welcome to the Spring edition of Synapse Connect.

The last quarter has been another very busy one here at Synapse. On the tech front, we have made numerous improvements to the Synapps MBS, as well as to our automated clinical coding product, Aircoder.

AIMAC and Leo Cussen Centre for Law announce education partnership

11 Oct 2021

The Australian Institute of Medical Administration & Compliance and the Leo Cussen Centre for Law announce education partnership.

The Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance (AIMAC) and the Leo Cussen Centre for Law, have announced they will be joinin…

Medical Republic article – Medical billing is full of reasonable doubts

7 Oct 2021

There is a common view that medical billing is easy and doctors can learn what they need to know on the job. In the third article in this series, Margaret Faux highlights a few items that no one (including Medicare) knows how to bill correctly.

Read the full article, Medical b…

Medical Republic article – Medicare: how it started, how it’s going

22 Sep 2021

In 1975 when Medibank (later Medicare) was first introduced, the regulatory landscape was pretty simple.

Forty-five years later, it has morphed into a twisted and snarled morass of incoherent laws and other legal instruments, so complex and mercurial it would be beyond the com…

InfoMedix and Synapse Medical announce integration and partnership looking at Australia and beyond

16 Sep 2021

Synapse Medical, the company with Australia’s only Medicare integrated billing app (Synapps MBS), and the only automated clinical coding solution (Aircoder) and InfoMedix, the leading supplier of Digital Medical Records within Australia, are delighted to announce a partnership …

COVID MBS items Newsflash! No. 55, 15 September 2021

15 Sep 2021

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Newsflash! Private inpatient telehealth services are here!

It’s been almost a year to the day since we sent our last Covid bulletin. We hope you have all been surviving out there.

A major change hit the federal register yesterday…

Synapse and Simbani announce Telehealth for the Bush initiative

15 Sep 2021

Synapse Medical Services, a MedTech healthcare administration company based in Sydney, and Simbani Research, a research organisation based in the Northern Territory, are delighted to announce a joint Telehealth for the Bush (TH4B) Project.

Synapse Medical has been providing mo…

Medical Republic article – Why I did a PhD on Medicare claiming and compliance

7 Sep 2021

In this series of articles for TMR’s Money & Medicine, Margaret Faux shares her extensive research findings and recommendations for reform designed to modernise Medicare.

The first article in the series, reveals Margaret’s journey into the complexities of the Medicare …

Medical Republic article – MBS Wild West

7 Sep 2021

In the recent article for The Medical Republic,  Solicitor and CEO of Synapse Medical, Margaret Faux, discusses the launch of their online educational platform called the Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance (AIMAC).

“We’re very excited to have pu…

EBM Analytics and Synapse Medical Services announce integration and partnership

7 Sep 2021

Synapse Medical Services, the company with Australia’s only comprehensive medical billing rules engine and automated clinical coding (Aircoder), and EBM Analytics (EBM), a leading Australian-based technology and consultancy team dedicated to the provision of high-quality clinic…

AIMAC new website is now live!

6 Sep 2021

AIMAC is back!
Our popular education academy, AIMAC, has been having an upgrade in recent months and we are delighted to officially launch the new site today!

We have over 100 products, including short courses, subscription packages, free content to read, watch and liste…

Telehealth for the Bush

1 Sep 2021

The telehealth for the bush trial or ‘TH4B’ as it has become known, is now in full swing.

In collaboration with our research partners, Simbani Research, we are delighted to advise some updates:

We now have a network of approximately 20 specialists (a wide range of …

Criminalising split medical bills? We are in la la land!

18 Aug 2021

The latest article for Croakey Health Media by our CEO, Margaret Faux, discussing the Private Healthcare Australia proposal to criminalise surprise split medical bills. Arguing this is an ill-conceived, non-evidence-based overreach, that does not fit within the proper role of…

Anthony Albanese says the cost of visiting your doctor has increased by more than 30 per cent since the Coalition took office. Is he correct?

23 Jul 2021

Margaret Faux featuring in #Medicare #GP #Doctor news in #Australian today.
The claim
In a prelude to what the next federal election campaign may look like, Labor says cutting Medicare is “in the Liberals’ DNA”.
On June 8, 2021, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese attac…

Greg Hunt says nearly 90 per cent of people receive their GP services for free. Is he correct?

22 Jul 2021

The claim

The federal government has come under fire from doctors for its decision to make changes to more than 900 items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).

The impact of these changes, which came into effect on July 1 after a five-year MBS review, remains to be seen….

Synapse Connect March 2021

13 Mar 2021

Dear Synapse Network,

March already! It’ll be Easter in a minute…

We hope 2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement on 2020 for you all.

Here at Synapse, it’s been a very busy first quarter. We have released a major app update, entered new partnerships, made …

Vijaya Group – Industry ICON Awards 2021

8 Mar 2021

On International Women’s Day 2021 it gives us great pleasure to congratulate the outstanding achievement of our own Vidhya Bala who won the Industry Icon Award last week from the Vijaya Group of Hospital.

The event was organised to recognise individual talent in the h…

Proud to join the Talking HealthTech community

3 Feb 2021

Synapse is delighted to announce that we’ve joined the growing community over at Talking HealthTech. 

We are excited to become full members for 2021 and support the great work being done by Peter Birch and his team.

You can see our listing here.

Watch this space for som…

Fatal wound for Medicare? New fees for dressings “herald the end of bulk-billing”

28 Jan 2021

In this comprehensive article below, solicitor and Medicare scholar Margaret Faux and health informatician and clinical coder Heather Grain warn that the MBS Review Taskforce proposal for GPs to be able to charge co-payments for dressings will have big ramifications, heralding …

Synapse Connect December 2020 – So here it is, Merry Christmas!

4 Dec 2020

So here it is, Merry Christmas!
2020! A memorable year for all the wrong reasons and soon to be consigned to history.
We hope that everyone reading this has made it through the year unscathed, and your families are safe and well. At Synapse we tried to stay as positive as possi…

HIMAA Newsletter, September 2020 – Member Profile

7 Oct 2020

 

We are very proud that our Group Co-ordinator, Quality Assurance, Aircoder – Pratheena Augustine, was selected for a member profile article in the monthly newsletter (September 2020) of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA). We understand…

Synapse and Medical Records Institute partner to offer Aircoder in Kenya

6 Oct 2020

Synapse Medical Services, the Australian company with an AI driven automated medical coding system that can code up to 10 episodes per second, and Medical Records Institute, a Kenyan company with a focus on health informatics consulting, are delighted to announce a partnership to…

Synapse and Alliance Care Technologies partner to offer automated clinical coding software internationally

24 Sep 2020

Synapse Medical Services, the Australian company with an AI driven automated coding system that can code up to 10 episodes per second, and Alliance Care Technologies, an American company with unique technologies that are tailored to assist physicians across the entire continuum …

COVID MBS items Newsflash! No. 54, 18 September 2020

18 Sep 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Newsflash!

Extension of telehealth announcement was officially made today. We will pour over the details in the coming days but here it is straight from the MBS website at this link.
“Extension of the temporary telehealth and phone co…

COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 53, 10 September 2020

10 Sep 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

As we approach the legislated Covid item sunset date of 30 September 2020, the question on everybody’s lips is – are the Covid items going to continue beyond that date?

No formal announcements yet, but we hear on the grapevine there …

COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 52, 19 August 2020

19 Aug 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

It’s been quiet on the Covid billing front for a while which we hope means there is less confusion. However, quite a few questions have come in over the last week or so, most of which would be relevant to everyone. It’s quite a long rea…

Synapse Connect July 2020 – our 10th anniversary year

22 Jul 2020

Dear Synapse Network,

We hope that you are all staying safe and are slowly adapting to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 has delivered.

Like everyone, it has been a busy and challenging few months for us as we have adjusted to working from home in three countries. But our bril…

COVID MBS items, Major Changes from Monday, No. 51, 20 July 2020

20 Jul 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Feels a bit like ground hog day with telehealth billing chaos all over again. Angry patients erroneously thinking their telehealth consult would attract a Medicare rebate and being turned away, and providers scrambling to work out who they …

COVID MBS items, Major Changes from Monday, No. 50, 17 July 2020

17 Jul 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

We hope you have all be keeping well, and to our colleagues in Victoria, please know that we are thinking of you.

This, our 50th Covid bulletin, heralds huge changes affecting GPs from Monday, and the relevant Determination hit the regis…

Advance Health: The acceleration of digital health in the COVID-19 world

3 Jul 2020

Advance Health recently convened a panel of  international experts to discuss the acceleration of digital health in the COVID-19 world and the role of digital technology in the healthcare sector.

Synapse Medical Services were delighted to support a panel that discussed variou…