The rate of new registrations for the personally controlled electronic health record is starting to snowball, a DOHA spokesperson said today, with registrations increasing by 28 percent in just...

Friday, 17 May 2013

The latest release of the PCEHR, which went live last Sunday, includes a new section for parents to add details of their children's health, growth and development, mainly aimed at parents of newborns…

Because you’re going to figure it out eventually. AWESOME! Photo from: here ...

Educating patients so that they can make informed choices is vital. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters As healthcare systems the world over continue to groan under the weight of...

It all starts with The Hunt. Mall-walking, clothes-shopping, you’re searching for cute tops and a new pair of jeans. You pop into stores, you do the Figure-8 Walk Around, you pop right out. You pinch fabrics, peek at wash instructions, and hold pants in front of mirrors, bending knees,...

Oh look, shoot, there’s a giant empty wall of Dark Knight DVD cases. Wait, wait, there’s one left in the corner! AWESOME! (p.s. Hmm, some of these age better than others. I’ve decided to just let’em hang. – Neil) Photo from: here ...

The PCEHR song from GP The Musical performed at Gasworks April 2013 as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.Written by Gerard Ingham and Genevieve YatesThis clip features Edmund…

The PCEHR song from GP The Musical performed at Gasworks April 2013 as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Written by Gerard Ingham and Gene...

Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters

Healthy North Coast is an online hub, where as part of the community, it supports everyone in getting healthy and staying healthy. Healthy North Coast is all about health.  It contains…

American actress Angelina Jolie has had a double mastectomy because she carries the faulty gene BRCA1. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA Actress Angelina Jolie has today written an op-ed in the New York...

Okay, who’s the smart one who brought an umbrella? Because I know it’s not me. No, when the sky cracks up and the rain smacks down, I’m the one wearing heavy jeans and a thick, spongy sweater that soaks up everything and turns me into swampy slab of peat bog. Yes, I’m...

Dan Brown's new novel will no doubt be a bestseller, to the annoyance of critics Photo: AP Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million h

Advertisers eat me up. Honestly, whenever I leave the grocery store I feel like I’ve just been had by the lot of them. I fully confess it, too. I wheel in for toilet paper and wheel out with a fat cart loaded to the gills with super-size salsa, half a dozen danishes, and two new brands...

Printer-friendly version Allen D. Spiegel, Ph.D. AT THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION, about 4,000 years ago, nomadic Semite tribes developed a managed health care system. Using cuneiform, a hieroglyphic…

By Jeff Larson, Jennifer LaFleur, Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Updated at May 10, 2013 Medicare’s popular prescription-drug program now serves more than 35…

Storing and creating advanced care directives on mobile phones would give doctors easier access to end-of-life care wishes. Image from shutterstock.com Mobile phones should be used to express...

What if the government could save hundreds of millions of dollars by listing a cheaper drug, shown to be just as effective as the one which costs the PBS more than any other medicine?...

When the cereal’s done but that shiny, off-white milk puddle remains, it’s time to drop the spoon, grab the bowl, and tilt back like there’s no tomorrow. It’s espresso for kids, it’s breakfast dessert, and it’s completely and totally AWESOME! Photo from:...

The government is moving ahead with plans to store advance care directives on the PCEHR, with Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek announcing that an additional $10 million had been allocated to…

Dark windows, dead silence, dim moonlight dancing on the walls. The night is calm and quiet and peaceful. And then BOOM: your eyes burst open and you bust out of bed in an adrenaline-gushing, brain-rushing, heart-crushing state of emergency. Dizzy and blind, you urgently stumble over to the...

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody” Mother Theresa I am always early for my…

We’ve all been there. Mustard-mayo swirls drip from the back of the hot-dog, coffee cups splash on the drive to work, and spoonfuls of lumpy ice cream crumble and go for a ride. Yes, we’re all familiar with the classic Day-Long Shirt Stain, also known as the International Symbol of...

One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize

'We were wrong. In Rwanda … we were wrong.'' The lecture hall is listening attentively. The former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who was once the most powerful woman in America,...

When your bucket of bolts clicks over a major milestone you can’t help but smile and feel proud. “We made it, rusty lady,” you say out loud, slapping the dash and honking the horn as you sit jammed in the KFC drive-thru. “Happy birthday, you ol’ highway roller....

It is a profound irony that the more you know about a particular industry, and the more experience you gain in it, the more difficult it can be to move it forward with truly meaningful...

This morning, Angela Dunn, host of the popular #IdeaChat Twitter chat series, alerted me that something was up with TweetChat: @tonia_ries Hashtag communities at risk – see notice from…

Put your hand up if you’ve ever accidentally yanked the entire roll of aluminum foil out of the box when you were trying to swipe a small slice? My brother, if your hand is up right now, you are not alone. See, I’m a bit clumsy in the kitchen, too. My oven burners are covered in...