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What can the world of Disney teach hospital leaders?

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: September 25, 2012In: hospitals

As book titles go, If Disney Ran Your Hospital; 9 ½ Things You Would Do Differently, is certainly one that captures attention. The author, Fred Lee, has worked both in managing health servic... Read more

Are there real grounds for hope about the renewal of healthcare?

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: September 17, 2012In: environmental health, evidence-based issues, global health, journal articles, Social determinants of health

Ray Moynihan, author and Senior Research Fellow at Bond University, has identified ten reasons for optimism about the future of healthcare in his regular BMJ column, including the greening m... Read more

Never mind the barriers to the health sector’s uptake of social media – here are some useful resources and examples

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: August 23, 2012In: alcohol, public health, social media and healthcare

The Cancer Council WA organised for me to speak at a meeting of public health people in Perth earlier this week on the opportunities of social media for their sector. I was quite surprised b... Read more

Tasmania’s healthcare system: it needs more than money

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: June 24, 2012In: health financing and costs, health reform

In a recent Croakey post, Martyn Goddard argued that the recent Federal funding announcement for Tasmania’s healthcare system did not quite deserve the applause that followed. In the article... Read more

The media & healthcare industries: some challenges and opportunities from the digital revolution

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: May 31, 2012In: Media Doctor Australia, media-related issues, nurses and nursing, public health, quality and safety of health care, Social determinants of health, social media and healthcare

Below is a presentation that I gave to the Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) conference in Cairns on Friday, May 25, canvassing the implications of the digital revolution for health... Read more

Is this a digital media innovation? Or a health innovation? Or something in between?

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: May 25, 2012In: consumer health matters, illicit drugs, media-related issues, quality and safety of health care, social media and healthcare

The digital revolution is blurring roles and boundaries, and changing the way we all work. Increasingly, there are examples of media innovation that could also been seen as a health interven... Read more

The latest wrap of Croakey’s coverage of public health, health reform and the works

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: April 10, 2012In: alcohol, food and nutrition, general practice, Indigenous health, media-related issues, Naked Doctor, physical activity, private health insurance, public health, rural and remote health, Social determinants of health, social media and healthcare, The Conversation, tobacco control

Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compila... Read more

If health service executives are embracing social media, what does it say?

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: February 21, 2012In: aged care, health reform, National Preventive Health Agency, prevention, social media and healthcare

(This is the first in a series of two posts looking at social media and health). Health service leaders are not famous for embracing engagement with the media or general public. This observa... Read more

A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: January 11, 2012In: abortion, alcohol, cancer, child health, climate change, complementary medicines, conflicts of interest, consumer health matters, death and dying, evidence-based issues, food and nutrition, global health, health and medical research, health financing and costs, health inequalities, health reform, health workforce, hospitals, Indigenous health, infectious diseases, Media Doctor Australia, Medicare Locals, mental health, MyHospitals website, obesity, oral health, pain, palliative care, pharmacy, physical activity, Pregnancy and childbirth, prevention, primary health care, public health, quality and safety of health care, rural and remote health, Social determinants of health, social media and healthcare, TGA, The Conversation, tobacco control, vaccination, WHO

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. H... Read more

A new health book that is worth reading (and free online)

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: November 23, 2011In: consumer health matters, evidence-based issues

If you haven’t already caught up with it, I commend the new edition of Testing Treatments: Better research for better healthcare. The English science writer Ben Goldacre calls it a book that... Read more