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Hospitals are tasked with making patients better, but when the hospital that provides care also owns the insurance company that pays for that care, the incentives get more complicated.
Victorian voters surveyed named cost of living, crime and health as their top three policy issues, with just over three months until the next state election.
A standardized framework for regulating the safety and efficacy of AI in healthcare has yet to be established.
Six years after Italy became Europe’s COVID-19 ground-zero, successful action led by a victims’ association against health governance failings sets an encouraging precedent.
When First Nations people get the right support in the health system, their physical and mental health improves.
Three experts explain how the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola may have crossed continents.
Our study found a way to shorten hospital stays in mental health units by multiple days.
Some new spending initiatives in health should add value, but the budget lacks a long-term vision for building cross-party consensus on improving healthcare.
During and after WWI, thousands of American women acted as mothers for displaced French children. A war studies research fellow weighs in with considerations for teaching this vital, often overlooked part of transatlantic wartime history.
Rural hospitals have high fixed costs, low patient volume and a large portion of patients insured through Medicaid, which typically pays less than private insurers.
Humanitarian personnel put themselves in harm’s way to help others. An international law expert explains how we can keep them safe.
If the government wants to pursue more public-private partnerships, it must consider a funding model that guarantees equity of access.
France may not have oil reserves, but it does have a well-oiled public health service comprising doctors, state-funded hospitals, strong state regulation and medical expenses that are reimbursed.
With robust governance frameworks, AI-enabled technologies have the potential to make high-risk workplaces safer.
A new study from a Pittsburgh hospital finds that trauma patients recover faster when emergency medical teams have shared experience working together.
As nurses in Pittsburgh and nationwide spotlight staffing shortages, better pay and workplace safety, labor negotiations have intensified. Here’s what’s at stake.
More than 3,000 patients are stranded in hospital waiting for discharge to a more appropriate aged care facility. Here’s why.
The deal struck between states and territories and the federal government follows a long-running standoff. Here’s what’s been agreed, and what’s still missing.
As negotiations continue, each side is blaming the other for problems in public hospitals. How did we get here?
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Policy Head, Research Assets, Sax Institute; Co-Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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