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Who's Moving - February 2012
We provide a regular update of people moving in the industry....
Matthew Daly is moving from his position as Chief Operating Officer of the Southern Clinical Cluster, NSW, to become Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania.
Christina Mitchell is also moving - but internally at Monash University - from Head of School, Biomedical Services to become the Dean of the Facult....
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Social media revolutionises health communications - and even medical outcomes
The ABC's Health Report recently ran a fascinating broadcast on social media and the health sector and some experts are published below (courtesy of the ABC transcript). Or even better click through to the Health Report site and have a listen to the podcast between Norman Swan and Lee Aase, the Director of the Mayo Clinic Centre for Social Media. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreportNorman Sw....
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Overseas poaching a problem for Australian medical schools
Australian-trained, foreign-born doctors off overseas as intern opportunities worsen.
Journalists Annabel McGilvray in Campus Review and John Ross in The Australian both sniffed out an excellent and important cautionary story from a recent conference address at University of Technology, Sydney by health workforce expert Lesleyanne Hawthorne.
According to Professor Hawthorne, Singapore an....
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Creativity, capability, capital: key words for development of sector
After a successful AusBiotech 2011, a new advisory panel on medical devices has been announced.
A new health economics panel has been launched to advise on key issues affecting medical devices companies regarding the assessment and reimbursement of medical devices diagnostics in Australia.
The AusMedtech Health Economics Expert Panel to be chaired by Mr Warren Bingham, President of Given Imagin....
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Policy support needed for medicines industry
Exports stall and R&D plateaus, while new trials are falling.
The medicines industry will offer Australia significant strategic and economic advantages in a post-mining boom future, Medicines Australia chief executive Dr Brendan Shaw told the National Press Club in a recent address.
Dr Shaw said that with the right policy settings to encourage innovation, research and manufacturing the medic....
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Better health on the move for Victorians
A new app means health consumers can get quality assured advice - anytime, anywhere.
The Better Health Channel (BHC), administered by the Victorian Department of Health, is long regarded as one of Australia's leading health, medical and lifestyle information websites - it receives almost one million unique visitors each month.
Key to its success is its reputation for authoritative and trustwor....
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Nine hard months before rural bliss a reality
Australia is a favoured destination for overseas health and hospital professionals or academics, with as many as 15 per cent of potential candidates from the UK expressing a desire to work here. Professor Jane Farmer was appointed last year as Head of School of La Trobe University's Rural Health School Bendigo, leaving her previous position as Chair of Rural Health Policy and Management and Co-dir....
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