News (50)

  • 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.

  • COAG commits to health IDs in 2010

    The Council of Australian Governments yesterday confirmed the goal of introducing individual healthcare identifiers within the next year and vowed to put draft legislation on the table for consultation.

  • Government releases draft health ID legislation

    The Federal Government today released draft legislation to assign a unique healthcare identifier number to every provider and consumer, as agreed to the Coalition of Australian Governments meeting earlier this week.

  • Suppliers wanted for Tassie's e-health revamp

    Tasmania has continued its e-health blitz, putting out two tenders to support its multimillion dollar e-health plan.

  • Australia must spend $1.2 to $1.9b on e-health

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister Nicola Roxon released a report on the nation's hospitals today by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission which recommends a $1.2 to 1.9 billion spend on e-health.

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN: Like giving candy to babies

    I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Are privacy laws killing Australians?

    Are Australia's privacy laws slowly killing Australians by preventing medical professionals gaining access to patient information?

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • E-health: Consultations down the wire

    A Sydney-based start-up is offering a way for doctors to track and bill their clients for consultations over the phone and by e-mail.

  • 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.

Create an e-mail alert for "e health"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
e health


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Phil Dobbie Conroy explains his magic filter
    In today's Twisted Wire, we put the screws on Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his controversial internet filter policy.
  • Array Copenhagen lessons on green IT
    After the global financial crisis placed green IT on the back-burner, is it about to become sexy again due to the likes of New Zealand's new emissions trading scheme?
  • Array Welcome to National Censorship Day
    Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured