{"id":34196,"date":"2016-08-16T21:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=34196"},"modified":"2016-08-17T05:51:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:51:34","slug":"news-in-brief-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/08\/16\/news-in-brief-193\/","title":{"rendered":"News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>UHG Signs Data Deal With Doctors<\/li>\n<li>Kaplan Releases Adviser Skills Test<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>UHG Signs Data Deal With Doctors<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34198\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/Brandon-Carp-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34198\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/Brandon-Carp-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"UHG Chair Brandon Carp\" width=\"149\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UHG Chair Brandon Carp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>United Healthcare Group (UHG) has signed an agreement with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) to allow general medical practitioners to complete a smart electronic form within existing medical practice software and securely submit it in real-time to a third-party, such as a life insurance company.<\/p>\n<p>UHG said more than 20 million forms were completed by GPs every year and the agreement follows the recent launch of the smart form system which automatically retains an electronic copy in the practice management system and provides a printed copy to patients.<\/p>\n<p>UHG Chief Executive, <strong>Rob Farmer<\/strong>, said the agreement follows on an earlier deal with South Australian GPs which enabled them to securely transmit Work Capacity Certificates directly to ReturnToWorkSA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether our solutions are to improve collection of an insurance report or medical certificate we are confident they can play an important role in encouraging GPs to embrace our new technologies. We are aligned in our commitment to helping doctors maximise their efficiency and regain some precious time,\u201d Farmer said.<\/p>\n<p>UHG Chairman, <strong>Dr Brandon Carp<\/strong> said the smart form solution would enable the prefilling of certificates directly from a patient\u2019s clinical record and enable faster reporting of the status of an injured worker and the introduction of appropriate return to work interventions sooner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaplan Releases Adviser Skills Test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Financial services education provider, Kaplan Professional, has launched a tool to assess the technical knowledge and skill of financial advisers.<\/p>\n<p>The tool, dubbed KUDOS, has been in development since late 2014 and has been developed in consultation with psychometricians from UNSW Global\u2019s Education Assessment Australia, Kaplan Professional\u2019s subject matter experts and a panel of senior industry practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan said the tool delivered a scientifically-validated assessment of an adviser\u2019s technical knowledge and skill for those with qualification between Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) Levels 5 to 8 with the current average assessment set at AQF Level 6, or Advanced Diploma Level.<\/p>\n<p>The assessments cover investments and markets, social security, financial strategies, taxation, legislation and compliance, superannuation and retirement income investments, and life insurance risk management with an expanded range of questions currently being developed.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan Professional said the expanded range would enable the development of client-centric and specialist tests, as well as enhancing test security and establishing competency norms across the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the assessments are reported on a scale from Band 1 denoting a basic understanding of key concepts and fundamentals to Band 4 denoting mastery in application of concepts and fundamentals, and superior skill in application to client scenario and can be used by licensees to measure the capability level of their adviser network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UHG Signs Data Deal With Doctors Kaplan Releases Adviser Skills Test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,7,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-services","category-technology","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}