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News (19)

• Sick NSW Health IT prescribed $700m

  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 opposition calls for health IT action

  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.

• SA nursed back to e-health with AU$17m Web plan

  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.

• Sydney hospital plans unusual wireless network

  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.

• NSW unveils IT consolidation plans

  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.

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• Is Brown Qld Health's white knight?

  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.

• Aussie CIOs will weather the storm

  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.

• Harvard Medical School: John Halamka, CIO

  Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.

• McKesson Corp: Randy Spratt, CIO

  McKesson is America's oldest and largest health care services company. In this CIO Vision Series interview, Randy Spratt explains IT's critical role across the organisation.

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

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  Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.

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