Medical care
Alternative labels
Medical policy
Medical research
Medicine
Conference paper
Augmented packaging for improved medicine compliance
This paper outlines work on a feasibility study looking at the use of Augmented Reality to provide support and supplementary information to patients undergoing various medication regimes.
Report
Implementing medicines New Zealand 2015 to 2020
Summary Medicines play a significant role in helping New Zealanders get well, stay well and live well. We have already made positive changes in this area, but there are substantial challenges ahead of us. We need to buy, use and manage medicines wisely. We need to meet the needs of our ageing population and meet...
Article
Elsevier clashes with researchers over open access publishing for academic texts
Academic publishing is a multi-million dollar business dominated by just a few major publishing houses. Many academics and open access advocates believe that’s unfair—publishers simply take researchers’ work and sell it back to them, they say. Stan Correy takes a look at the state of play. • In 2001, I did a story for RN’s...
Audio
Big deals in the knowledge business: how scholarly publishing divides academia
Rear Vision explores why the world of scholarly communication has become so divided over the control, access and cost of knowledge. The outsourcing of the production of the Medical journal of Australia has divided medical researchers because of the sacking of the editor in chief, Professor Stephen Leeder. At the centre of the controversy is...
Video
Rationing: the case of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
This lecture was filmed on 18 May 2015 as part of the public lecture series of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the Queensland University of Technology. Topic: Rationing - The case of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the place of cost-effectiveness thresholds. When health professionals are considering whether or not...