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Creating Spreadsheets

healthcare · Healthy Business for Doctors · 29 Nov 2019

Google Sheets This will be a quick introduction to using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are very useful tools for managing changes, or for displaying information. Graphs can be made to display data graphically, and calculations and repetitive processes can be easily achieved using a spreadsheet. To star

Online scams cost Australians $489 Million

healthcare · Healthy Business for Doctors · 29 Apr 2019

ACCC has released a report detailing that online scams cost Australians half a billion dollars in 2018. “Total combined losses reported to Scamwatch and other government agencies exceeded $489 million – $149 million more than 2017,” ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard said." WOW, just wow. The ACCC repo

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Pro Tips

healthcare · IT4Doctors · 25 Mar 2014

Matt’s Best Practice Pro Tips As shown at BP Summer Summit March 2014 Risk Mitigation Limit access based on ROLE eg junior/new reception staff no access to patient clinical record Registrars not have ability to backup database Passwords not known except by user Scan using BDI Write letters outside o