Navigating the Galaxy of Health with Halaxy (July)
Welcome to the July edition of our Navigating the Galaxy of Health with Halaxy newsletter. As part of this monthly newsletter, we’re committed to bringing you some of the biggest developments in Australian healthcare, including top research, news, and the inside take of what’s been happening at Halaxy.
🌌 Inside Halaxy
- A number of Medicare rebates as well as a number of WorkSafe, Workcover QLD, ReturnToWorkSA, NDIS, DVA, Open Arms, BUPA ADF, and TAC VIC payment rates – increased on 1 July. We have added these updated rebates / payment rate into our Global Fee Database and you can update them in your Halaxy software in just a few clicks, without needing to go through them all and add them yourself. Learn how to edit and automatically update fees now.
- We rolled out 3 new features that give you more control over how you manage your Halaxy account. Read more.
- We spotlighted our patient arrival notification feature, that lets you quickly and easily notify the relevant practitioner in your practice that their patient has arrived for their appointment. Read more.
🗂️ Research That Caught Our Eye
Deloitte recently released its Voice of the Workforce research, which looks into the experiences of Australian practitioners, including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and more.
According to Deloitte, a key issue for Australian practitioners is the significant time being spent on administrative tasks, with 74% of those surveyed believing that “administrative tasks can be avoided completely” - which we believe too!
As healthcare practitioners continue to see their workloads increase, Deloitte analysts argue that there is a “need for these [basic] tasks to be streamlined, allocated elsewhere or avoided entirely” so that health practitioners “have more time to spend on patient care.”
Halaxy doesn’t just reduce your administration, it automates and removes it completely, saving practitioners up to an hour every day: giving them more time to focus on patient care. It’s why over 35,000 healthcare practitioners use Halaxy to run their practices every day.
📰 What We’ve Been Reading
Check out the healthcare news that we’ve been reading:
- Forthcoming legal changes to the way the assignment of benefit for bulk-billed Medicare services work is expected to have a positive impact on healthcare practitioners, though some have warned it may take up to “18 months for the changes to reach practices” (RACGP). Halaxy already has its own assignment of benefit feature that makes it easy for practitioners to quickly get patient approval to bulk bill their services, straight from any Halaxy invoice. Discover how to request assignment of benefit for Medicare bulk billing with Halaxy now.
- An overview of the Australian government's new Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy 2024 - 2029 (Department of Health and Aged Care)
- While the number of General Practitioners has risen overall in recent years, can they keep up with Australia's booming population? (RACGP)
- The federal government is investing $20 million to turn a number of promising digital technologies into real treatments, including AI imaging software and a brain imaging analysis company (Department of Health and Aged Care)
- Australians' health and the country's health system remains in good condition despite a number of challenges in recent years (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
🗣️ Top Help Guide Articles
Discover some of the most talked about Halaxy Help Guide articles in the last month: