NSW special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed an aggressive $704 million investment strategy to cure NSW Health's sick information technology systems, in a landmark review published late yesterday.
NSW shadow Health Minister Jillian Skinner this week demanded the NSW Government speed up its response to special commissioner Garling's damning assessment of NSW's Health's technology systems.
Nurses and midwives working in South Australia's public hospital system will soon have automated access to patient records through a new AU$17 million Web based information system.
The Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAN) is planning to rollout a new wireless network for remote access to medical information within its wards, utilising the unpopular 802.11a standard to alleviate Wi-Fi blackspots.
Paul Edgecumbe, NSW government's CIO, has outlined how much of the state's ageing IT infrastructure will be consolidated as part of a four year plan to reap $565 million in savings, including the potential loss of IT jobs.
Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.
A series of inspiring conversations with Australian chief information officers over the past five years has led me to believe the profession and ICT industry as a whole has the attitude, skills and drive to push through the global financial crisis and other challenges to the better world ahead.
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