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Synapse Medical, the company with Australia’s only rules based, enterprise, medical billing system which currently has over 65,000 embedded Medicare billing rules, and IMEXHS, the leading innovator in cloud-based medical imaging solutions, are delighted to announce a partnershi…
The Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce online version of their Annual Report 2020-’21 is now available to view from their website. Synapse is a sponsor for the not-for-profit company, and supports The Chamber’s integral ability to serve the Indo-Australian business commu…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Before we answer the few questions received in recent days, I thought I would take a moment to say that there has been quite a lot of misinformation spread about the Covid telehealth changes. I saw incorrect information that the 12-month pr…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
The government giveth and the government taketh away and then the government giveth back again!
I’m sure you are all as exhausted as we are trying to keep up with this ever-changing billing landscape, so I’ll keep this short and shar…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Lots of updates with the new laws now in force.
We received some excellent questions, as expected, and with the legislation now on the register we have the following answers and updates.
Before we start, some legal definitions that ar…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Firstly, we hope you are enjoying the festive season, spending time with loved ones and staying Covid safe.
There are major changes happening to Covid telehealth item numbers from 1 January 2022. The changes have not yet hit the Federal …
So here it is, Merry Christmas!
Welcome to our final update for 2021, which was another difficult year with the world still battling a pandemic.
At Synapse, we continued to make the best of it, by firstly keeping everybody safe (we continued to work from home, and supported our…
Dear Synapse Network,
Welcome to the Spring edition of Synapse Connect.
The last quarter has been another very busy one here at Synapse. On the tech front, we have made numerous improvements to the Synapps MBS, as well as to our automated clinical coding product, Aircoder.
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The Australian Institute of Medical Administration & Compliance and the Leo Cussen Centre for Law announce education partnership.
The Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance (AIMAC) and the Leo Cussen Centre for Law, have announced they will be joinin…
Synapse Medical, the company with Australia’s only Medicare integrated billing app (Synapps MBS), and the only automated clinical coding solution (Aircoder) and InfoMedix, the leading supplier of Digital Medical Records within Australia, are delighted to announce a partnership …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Newsflash! Private inpatient telehealth services are here!
It’s been almost a year to the day since we sent our last Covid bulletin. We hope you have all been surviving out there.
A major change hit the federal register yesterday…
Synapse Medical Services, a MedTech healthcare administration company based in Sydney, and Simbani Research, a research organisation based in the Northern Territory, are delighted to announce a joint Telehealth for the Bush (TH4B) Project.
Synapse Medical has been providing mo…
Synapse Medical Services, the company with Australia’s only comprehensive medical billing rules engine and automated clinical coding (Aircoder), and EBM Analytics (EBM), a leading Australian-based technology and consultancy team dedicated to the provision of high-quality clinic…
AIMAC is back!
Our popular education academy, AIMAC, has been having an upgrade in recent months and we are delighted to officially launch the new site today!
We have over 100 products, including short courses, subscription packages, free content to read, watch and liste…
The telehealth for the bush trial or ‘TH4B’ as it has become known, is now in full swing.
In collaboration with our research partners, Simbani Research, we are delighted to advise some updates:
We now have a network of approximately 20 specialists (a wide range of …
The latest article for Croakey Health Media by our CEO, Margaret Faux, discussing the Private Healthcare Australia proposal to criminalise surprise split medical bills. Arguing this is an ill-conceived, non-evidence-based overreach, that does not fit within the proper role of…
Margaret Faux featuring in #Medicare #GP #Doctor news in #Australian today.
The claim
In a prelude to what the next federal election campaign may look like, Labor says cutting Medicare is “in the Liberals’ DNA”.
On June 8, 2021, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese attac…
The claim
The federal government has come under fire from doctors for its decision to make changes to more than 900 items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).
The impact of these changes, which came into effect on July 1 after a five-year MBS review, remains to be seen….
Dear Synapse Network,
March already! It’ll be Easter in a minute…
We hope 2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement on 2020 for you all.
Here at Synapse, it’s been a very busy first quarter. We have released a major app update, entered new partnerships, made …
On International Women’s Day 2021 it gives us great pleasure to congratulate the outstanding achievement of our own Vidhya Bala who won the Industry Icon Award last week from the Vijaya Group of Hospital.
The event was organised to recognise individual talent in the h…
Synapse is delighted to announce that we’ve joined the growing community over at Talking HealthTech.
We are excited to become full members for 2021 and support the great work being done by Peter Birch and his team.
You can see our listing here.
Watch this space for som…
In this comprehensive article below, solicitor and Medicare scholar Margaret Faux and health informatician and clinical coder Heather Grain warn that the MBS Review Taskforce proposal for GPs to be able to charge co-payments for dressings will have big ramifications, heralding …
So here it is, Merry Christmas!
2020! A memorable year for all the wrong reasons and soon to be consigned to history.
We hope that everyone reading this has made it through the year unscathed, and your families are safe and well. At Synapse we tried to stay as positive as possi…
We are very proud that our Group Co-ordinator, Quality Assurance, Aircoder – Pratheena Augustine, was selected for a member profile article in the monthly newsletter (September 2020) of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA). We understand…
Synapse Medical Services, the Australian company with an AI driven automated medical coding system that can code up to 10 episodes per second, and Medical Records Institute, a Kenyan company with a focus on health informatics consulting, are delighted to announce a partnership to…
Synapse Medical Services, the Australian company with an AI driven automated coding system that can code up to 10 episodes per second, and Alliance Care Technologies, an American company with unique technologies that are tailored to assist physicians across the entire continuum …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Newsflash!
Extension of telehealth announcement was officially made today. We will pour over the details in the coming days but here it is straight from the MBS website at this link.
“Extension of the temporary telehealth and phone co…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
As we approach the legislated Covid item sunset date of 30 September 2020, the question on everybody’s lips is – are the Covid items going to continue beyond that date?
No formal announcements yet, but we hear on the grapevine there …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
It’s been quiet on the Covid billing front for a while which we hope means there is less confusion. However, quite a few questions have come in over the last week or so, most of which would be relevant to everyone. It’s quite a long rea…
Dear Synapse Network,
We hope that you are all staying safe and are slowly adapting to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 has delivered.
Like everyone, it has been a busy and challenging few months for us as we have adjusted to working from home in three countries. But our bril…
