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Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
News flash!
The government has been busy over the weekend, enacting the below raft of Determinations
Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – COVID-19 Telehealth and Telephone Attendances) Amendment Determination 20…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Following on from yesterday’s bulletin, as promised, this is an explainer on the law around who can request COVID pathology tests.
We have been informed that some pathology companies, who are probably themselves struggling to keep up w…
Dear Valued Network,
As part of our commitment to exchange knowledge and ideas – especially during exceptional circumstances – we are pleased to share the first Advance Health Webinar on coronavirus (COVID-19) from Dubai Science Park, Connection Communications & Sy…
Hello Synapse Network,
Welcome to the first Synapse Connect for 2020, our 10th anniversary year. As ever, the year is flying by, and Easter eggs have been spotted on supermarket shelves!
2020 has kicked off with a bang here at Synapse and we have plenty of updates to share….
Delighted to announce that our CEO & Founder, Margaret Faux appears on the latest episode of Pomegranate Health; the podcast from the The Royal Australasian College of Physicians about the culture of Medicine. Australia has one of the best value health systems in the world, b…
Synapse Medical Services co-hosted the the 10th edition of the forum
Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi “DSP supports innovative business partners who are using new technologies to diagnose and treat the disease “
Diabetes is a major health concern that affects 19% of the UAE …
Hello Synapse Network,
Where has 2019 gone?! With the festive season well and truly upon us it is time to reflect on the twelve months that are coming to a close, and review the transformational year that 2019 has been for Synapse.
We made great progress this year in furthe…
Synapse Medical Services CEO, Margaret Faux presented a seminar on private practice for the South Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation in Adelaide yesterday evening. The event was sold out with a wait list, which was fantastic! As always, it was an honour for Synapse…
Dubai Science Park (DSP), a science- and healthcare-focused business community, convened key industry stakeholders at the ninth edition of its Advance Health forum that highlighted the latest trends in next-generation sequencing (NGS).
Organised in partnership with Synapse Med…
Medicare Billing, Law and Practice: Complex, Incomprehensible and Beginning to Unravel
Margaret Faux, Jonathan Wardle and Jon Adams*
Australia’s Medicare is still widely considered one of the world’s best health systems. However, continual political tinkering for 40 years h…
Synapse Medical Services are delighted to announce that we’ve moved our Dubai based office to Dubai Science Park, DSP.
DSP have been great supporters of Synapse since our move into the healthcare space in the UAE and this strategic move makes sense for a number of reasons, n…
We at Synapse Medical are extremely proud of our technological solutions, in part for the ease in which we can help the practices of our clients and also how they help those precious healthcare dollars to go further in the right places.
Our billing and autocoding solutions als…
Synapse Medical Services CEO & Founder, Margaret Faux, was in Dubai this week as part of an esteemed panel of speakers to discuss “Needs based investment in healthcare policies to support best practice and centres of excellence”.
Synapse were honoured to be invited b…
Dubai-UAE: 29th September, 2019 – Dubai Science Park (DSP), a science- and healthcare-focused business community, convened key industry stakeholders at its Advance Health forum to discuss the current status and future direction of mental health in the UAE.
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Last week was a wonderful moment for Synapse Medical Services as we moved into our new office in Chennai. We held a magnificent inauguration on Wednesday 25th September 2019. We’d like to offer special thanks to our guest of honour from Australian Department of Foreign Affairs …
Hello Synapse Network,
Welcome to the spring edition of Connect in which we have exciting updates on our revolutionary Synapps Medical Billing System, including a new ‘share patient’ function, the increasing demand for medical billing education, a new private practice concept …
Earlier this year, we visited Hobart, Tasmania for the 15th National Rural Health Conference to showcase how our solutions could be used in the most remote of locations. The aim was to spread the word about Synapse’s medical administration services, such as our mobile Medica…
The Australian College of Nurse Practitioners is the peak professional body for Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Practice Nurses in Australia. The fact that their vision statement “Instil nurse practitioner knowledge, competency and capability through access to quality educ…
RACGP President Dr Harry Nespolon has called out the Federal Government to address what appear to be double standards in how bulk-billing practices are permitted to operate. The National Health Co-op, with 11 clinics around the ACT, charge individuals a $10 a month memb…
After a very successful 8 month trial using our amazing end to end, app based, medical billing system, we are thrilled to announce Icon Cancer Centre is rolling it out across its entire network. The results spoke for themselves – rejected claims reduced to almost zero, …
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ran their Preparation for Practice workshop in Melbourne on 17-18 August and we were invited to contribute. It was a pleasure and a privilege for Synapse to be involved in this workshop. Participants were engaged, and took part in …
Earlier this year, we visited Hobart, Tasmania for the 15th National Rural Health Conference. While there we met with the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Association (NATSIHWA) delegation. NATSIHWA is the peak body representing Aboriginal and/or Torre…
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…
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 …
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 …
Health professionals have gathered again in Dubai for the seventh edition of the Advance Health networking event, held by Dubai Science Park (DSP) to generate discussion on the processes, applications, and the conditions for adopting 3D printing technology in the healthcare sec…
Team aiming to raise $5000 for Cancer Council in Mystery Box Rally 2019
As one of Australia’s largest community lead fundraising events for the Cancer Council, each year the Mystery Box Rally sends competitors and their vehicles into the bush for 5 days of driving challenges. …
Holding up a mirror to Medicare – do we like what we see?
“This article is one for the serious Medicare, medical billing and health insurance nerds. In it I have unpacked the Australian Medicare and medical billing legislation and demonstrated where the gaps are in p…
Why Synapse for Remote Clinical Coding?
Synapse offers multi-jurisdictional professional clinical coding services that are flexible, transparent and competitively priced to suit the needs of individual clients. Whether you need ongoing coding support or you want to catch up on a…
Hello Network,
In our Christmas newsletter we remarked how quickly the year had passed and so far 2019 has been no different. I am delighted to bring you up to speed with what has been an extremely hectic year to date.
As our clients will have noticed it’s been a non-stop…
