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Musings of a Med2 newbie

Written on 23rd September 2011 at 6:07am by Rachel
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Stanford University evokes strong imagery for me. I was born in Cyprus, grew up in New Zealand and now live in Australia, and although I have been blessed to live and work in some wonderful places around the world, the idea of getting to visit one of the places I had dreamed about, seen movies about, read books about... well that was pretty darn cool.

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Balancing the books for health care costs

Written on 1st April 2011 at 11:12am by Rachel
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A couple of days ago I was lucky enough to be invited to the nehta 4corner round table event to talk about the PCEHR - Personally controlled electronic health record, or as some call it politically correct electronic health record.
Nehta has done a good job in a limited time window to run a series of consultations with various stakeholders - ICT industry, Government groups, clinicians and I'm pleased to say consumers too. Although it would be nice if the department of health actually released the con ops !!

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invisible technology - motivating people to manage their own health

Written on 31st October 2010 at 12:38pm by Rachel
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I have a ridiculous fear of needles, as I found out again last night when unfortunately I had to take a visit to the emergency department of St Vincents here in Melbourne, I have severe endometriosis and am due for surgery in December and it seems my body is definitely telling me – “hey! Something not right here!! Sort it out soon please!

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Drivers for ehealth adoption

Written on 24th September 2010 at 2:51pm by Rachel
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It’s interesting to see how far so many industries have come in the past 20years, even just the last 10 – by embracing the opportunities new technologies bring to enable them to offer better services and in turn increase revenue for their business.

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why we really need the NBN, it's not just about faster entertainment

Written on 13th August 2010 at 6:02pm by Rachel
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I recently watched amused as Tony Abbot bumbled his way through his parties response to the NBN and their statement that Australians don’t need the high speed network Conroy is proposing, and certainly can’t afford the $43billion price tag it comes with.

100mb is more than enough… really Tony?

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updates from the ITAC conference

Written on 26th July 2010 at 11:47am by Rachel
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Have been twitterring from the ITAC conference, but I think it might be quite annoying for some of my followers who have nothing to do with aged care - would be nice to have a filter on their to just update your followers who tag they are interested in a specific topic, you could then choose to get updates from certain contacts but only if they contain the following words or topics... can someone build that please?

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Does video communication play a role in the treatment of dementia in seniors?

Written on 13th July 2010 at 1:39pm by Rachel
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Dementia / Alzheimer these words often get interspersed treated as each other, and in fact the common man has a deep seated fear of these words to such a degree we often don’t inform ourselves of their real meaning, how they affect us until, well it’s too late.

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varying responses to technology in the aged care sector

Written on 13th July 2010 at 1:37pm by Rachel
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I’ve just arrived back from a trip to Perth, WA. I’d never been there before , however a chance encounter with a fabulous man working in the aged care sector at the HIC conference in Canberra last year, led me to investigate the opportunities of bringing the Fonesee product to the western coast.

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Can being Lonely make you sick?

Written on 7th April 2010 at 4:32pm by Rachel
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In my never ending quest to use technology to prevent illness and improve quality of life in the aging process I keep coming up time and again with the fact that most healthcare systems, government policies and infrastructure proposals do not seem to take the persons spiritual wellbeing into effect. We all know and agree what you eat and how you exercise both your physical body and your brain effects your health.

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Growing old disgracefully

Written on 8th March 2010 at 12:28pm by Rachel
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Last week I was lucky enough to be chosen to present at the first ever Ignite Melbourne talks, Ignite is a really great concept that brings together a series of passionate speakers to inform, educate and entertain the gathered audience in a series of 5 minute presentations, slight catch.... the slides are automated to move forward every 15seconds so you can't control them.

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