A smart card for health services will provide basic medical information to help in an emergency, Health Minister Tony Abbott says.
The federal government is attempting to suspend parliamentary proceedings to fast-track laws through the House of Representatives to sell its majority stake in Telstra.
One of the government's key technology projects for the health sector has "major problems" and neglects the concerns of Australian doctors, an industry body has warned.
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has openly expressed his frustration at the slow progress towards a single portable electronic healthcare record (EHR) framework -- but early trials in Australia’s least populous states suggest that lack of patient buy-in, not technological limitations, may limit the utility of the EHR systems expected to be in place before the year’s end.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.
The federal Opposition has asked Australia's spam legislation enforcers to investigate what it claims is a breach of the Spam Act 2004 by the Prime Minister, coalition politicians and a company whose directors include the Prime Minister's son.
Tasmania is to be the test bed for a new Medicare smartcard which will allow doctors to access patient information from the federal government's planned central repository of medical records.
Microsoft on Thursday said that Oracle had pledged to make its database software work better with Microsoft's development tools.
The election of industry representatives to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) council has been branded an 'absolute farce' after some ballot papers were received by members after they were due to be returned.
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Australian scientists, under the auspices of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FACTS), have written to the Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Abbott requesting the government conduct a tracking study of qualified migrants.
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