Practice management
Legend: ► On demand 🗒 Case studies, practice notes and articles ✔ Checklist
🗒 Telehealth and the effective delivery of healthcare
The increasing need for telehealth has changed the way practitioners practice medicine
🗒 Using the new MBS telehealth item numbers
MIPS panel lawyers Meridian explains the Medicare Benefit Scheme (MBS) ‘telehealth’ items.
✔ Ask the adviser: Insurance companies
What to do when a request is received from an insurance company, advice from our Professional Services Team
🗒 Cyber security attacks - are you prepared?
Australian healthcare practices' storage of health records means mandatory obligations apply and there is a heightened risk from cyber-attack
🗒 Separated parents - Don't become the meat in the sandwich
Negotiating family disputes over children; the practitioner’s clinico-legal obligations
🗒 Employee relations - How to mitigate risk
Key management messages to respond to complaints, claims and investigations
🗒 ‘Fit to fly’ rules for pilots
New certification permit GPs to certify pilots as ‘fit to fly’ for light aircraft under certain conditions
Why should I insure my clinic?
Although your individual MIPS membership includes indemnity insurance that can respond to your direct treatment of a patient, and supervision of others, here's why you also need to cover your practice
🗒 Avoiding common employee contract disputes or pitfalls
Tips and advice about signing an employment contract.
The perils of iron infusions
Common recurring themes among notifications involving iron staining
🗒 Employee or contractor?
Having an understanding of your employment status clarifies the cost of indemnity and appropriate membership category.
🗒 Indemnity definitions made simpler
Key terms in understanding insurance
Am I an employee or an independent contractor?
How to understand the nature of the employment engagement that you are entering into with another party.
Employment contracts – Making them work for you
Do you understand the agreement in your employment contract? Do you know your rights?
🗒 Should you trust the data from wearable fitness devices?
The reliance on data from wearable fitness devices is changing the way healthcare practitioners practice medicine
🗒 How to handle negative feedback online
Recommendations on navigating negative online comments
🗒 After hours GPs can't shed responsibility for follow up
Dr Rob Walters provides advice to after hours GPs on the importance of communication and investigation
🗒 Is it time to rethink your business structure?
An organised and structured approach is the key to operating a successful practice
Medico-legal safeguards when setting up a private practice
Choose the right structure when creating a private medical practice company
Raising standards of clinical care and decision-making
MIPS has partnered with the Australasian Foundation for Plastic Surgery (AFPS) to pilot, and roll-out, a set of clinical assessment tools.
IMEs - Tips for improved health assessments
How to create fair and unbiased health assessments as an Independent Medical Examiner (IME).
AHPRA celebrates changes to the regulatory landscape of sexual boundaries notifications
AHPRA abandoned chaperones in favour of gender-based restrictions and suspensions for practitioners with boundary transgrressions.
MIPS sponsored ANZA-SIDM - Improving Diagnosis Conference
Learning to acknowledge that diagnosis is complex and learning to embrace it as an iterative task that often requires multiple perspectives and opinions is encouraged.
Continuity of Care: Coherent, Connected and Consistent
How to not breach duty of care by providing connected and coherent healthcare when consulting with a patient.
The financial aspect of treatment in dentistry
The dental space is indeed a very small part of the medical indemnity area, but one where there are issues peculiar to dentistry, and notifications where the financial aspect of treatment and patient management are often of paramount importance.
