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Internet Trends over 2014
Those of you that follow Internet trends or are planning an Internet presence may find the slideshow below of interest. Keeping ahead of everything disruptive is the strategy for today and that requires a lot of help. This slideshow helps fill such information gaps. KPCB Internet trends 2014 from Kleiner Perkins
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Own Your Own Work to Build Patient Trust
We now live in a world of science that most of us did not know or even understand when we finished our studies within pharmacy schools at various universities around Australia. Unfortunately that science is now tinged by corruption of evidence by Big Pharma and skewed to an extreme by medical skeptics seemingly supporting orthodox…
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Perceived Hurdles For Clinical Services Published
Recent reports in various media cited research done in respect cardiovascular disease and pharmacist involvement delivered as a paid clinical service provided from a pharmacy environment. The research was undertaken by the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Pharmacy which conducted in-depth interviews with 21 NSW community pharmacists, based around the feasibility of a cardiovascular disease…
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Patient – Centred Patient Homes
We are reading a lot about aspirations in terms of attitudes to treatment of patients in transformational health spaces. A culture change drives this thinking because we are aware that health costs as an integrated whole are far too high and that patients do not feel they are in control of their health in any…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. Complementary Medicines Research 2. Repositioning Pharmacy
1. ASMI sponsors new complementary medicines research leadership program 30 September 2014 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) is proud to support a unique program for up and coming complementary medicine researchers at the Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) at the University of Technology, Sydney. This international leadership program is…
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New centre to unlock the secrets of cheaper, quality healthcare
An Australian-first health research centre at UNSW promises to realise the potential of big data to reduce the costs of healthcare while simultaneously improving the prevention and management of many diseases. UNSW’s new Centre for Big Data in Health will put Australia at the forefront of global innovation in medicine and healthcare by linking, scrutinising…
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Self Care – Its Time Has arrived With Positive Health Outcomes by Design
Wishing vs. doing By giving people more ways to speak up and more tools to take action, we keep decreasing the gap between what we wish for and what we can do about it. If you’re not willing to do anything about it, best not to waste the energy wishing about it. Seth Godin Self…
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US Clinic Design: The Exam Room
The US style of walk-in clinic that is now starting to gain wide acceptance has at its heart a room they call the Exam Room. In Australia we do not seem to have yet settled on an official design, but some pharmacies have dedicated rooms they call treatment rooms, counselling rooms or consulting rooms, or…
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Hype And High Water
Market bubbles, busts and waves have a common element – hype. When emotions, rather than fundamentals are driving the marketplace it is time to take pause, and stock. Now is that time. Clearing the inventory of current marketing, price, merchandise and promotional strategies is sage advice. Reassurances that high prices are founded on solid foundations,…
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Trends in Healthcare – From Quantitative to Qualitative
The near ubiquitous acceptance of smartphones and mobile internet access have ushered in a new wave of connected devices and smart objects that help us compile and track an unprecedented amount of previously unavailable data. This quantification of self, which used to be the sole domain of fitness fanatics and professional athletes, is now being…