February’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS Quick Guide — ready for download
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s February telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items is…
Tag: Telehealth
Medicare to clamp down on telehealth claims by nurse practitioners
The Federal Government is finally planning to enforce Medicare’s ‘existing relationship’ telehealth rule for nurse practitioners, but not until November. The rule means that a…
For me, telehealth is a revelation – sometimes it’s better than seeing patients in person
My move into emergency telemedicine, after decades of public hospital practice, has been a revelation. I like to call this type of practice ‘community emergency…
Telehealth is bullshit — I’m over patients thinking all consults can be done over the phone
I remember one of my first days of seeing patients by telehealth, right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. The scary new coronavirus…
Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items: January’s Quick Guide
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s January telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items is…
Telehealth corporate finds its rate of serious clinical errors ‘appears a little high’
This story has been updated. The findings analysed audited consults including all consultations that an algorithm specifically identified as potential high-risk or critical errors, as…
Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items — December’s issue
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s December telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items is…
Should the medical board be worried about the rise of instant medical certificates?
The Medical Board of Australia has raised numerous concerns about the risk of bad medicine with the rise of telehealth services, particularly those offering instant scripts…
Telehealth corporate’s founders hit rich list with $150 million fortune
Three founders of Eucalyptus, the telehealth corporate known for prescribing semaglutide at scale, have accrued fortunes of $52 million each, according to the Australian Financial…
One year on: ADHD prescribing rights expanded but GPs still waiting on promised big changes
With assessments costing thousands of dollars, years-long wait times, exploding demand and little public sector help, ADHD care seemed at breaking point. Exactly one year…
