ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Media Releases</title> <link href="achr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="maintitle">Media Releases <br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">November 2011</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Health_productivity_1111.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Productivity agenda in health urgently required</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">21 July 2010</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Impact and Cost of Health Sector Regulation - Paper Released.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Health sector regulations strangling health care services</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">5 February 2010</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Health Premium Increase Causes - Dr Brian Hanning.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Inflation not the principal cause of health insurance premium increases  real reasons are poorly understood</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">14 January 2010</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Health System Reforms - Ken Baxter.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Major fundamental constitutional, administrative and operational changes needed to secure real health system reforms</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">6 July 2009</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Impact and Cost of Health Sector Regulation - Study Announced.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Project announced to study cost and impact of health sector regulation</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">4 December 2008</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Pharmacogenomics.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Pharmacogenomics could save the health system billions p.a. says new Study</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">10 November 2008</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Medicarechoicefinal1008.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Health report proposes that reform of Medicare should increase consumer choice</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">23 September 2008</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/PHI system media release 230908 final.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Private Health Insurance system critical to competition and choice</span></a><br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">23 September 2008</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Quality measurement release 230908 - final.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Management & directors, supported by insurers must drive better, more consistent measurement of health care quality in private hospitals</span></a><br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">18 March 2008</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/ACHR_Launch_Release20080301.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Report into the operation and future of the Australian Health Care Agreements and the funding of public hospitals</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">18 July 2007</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/evaluating_health_outcomes_in_Aust_healthcare_sys.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu"> Policy makers lack information to know whether Australia s hospital system is efficient and effective study finds</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">24 May 2007</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/ChronicPainInBreastCancerSurgeryRelease.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Understanding persistent pain - A Research Project to be funded by ACHR</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">19 April 2007</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/E-Health - MGeorgeff 0407 - final.doc" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Health Silos & lack of information sharing hinder care</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">15 November 2006</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Making_Medicare_Better_AJC_Mediarelease.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">'Weaknesses place world class health system under threat' says Australian Centre for Health Research</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">15 November 2006</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/Making_Medicare_Better_MR_Final.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">Medicare ultimately 'doomed' without fundamental change</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dtext" valign="top">11 October 2006</td> <td valign="top"><a target="_blank" href="pdfs/ACHR%20media%20release%20Graves%20paper%20-%20final.pdf"> <span class="rightmenu">First research paper on prosthetics performance released</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dtext" valign="top">11 October 2006 </td> <td valign="top"><a target="_blank" href="pdfs/A%20review%20of%20joint%20replacement%20surgery%20-%20Graves%20media%20relea.pdf"> <span class="rightmenu">New hip/knee prostheses 'not better'; Revision surgery 'can be halved'</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122" class="dtext" valign="top">24 November 2005</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="pdfs/ACHR_Launch_Release_241105.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="rightmenu">The Australian Centre for Health Research launched</span></a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>