IBM has described the SAP-based payroll/HR system it is implementing for Queensland Health as the most complicated it has ever seen in Australia.
High-flying Australian IT executive Paul Summergreene has surfaced in Canberra, commencing work consulting to the health sector after losing his spot as Queensland Health chief information officer in July.
Queensland Health has signed Getronics to provide data communications equipment as part of its five-year, AU$287.9 million technology upgrade.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has flagged a national skills summit for the technology industry and called for a system of accreditation for workers who have not achieved a degree.
An Australian medical team's use of a mobile phone-based diagnosis system is bearing dividends in the tsunami-devastated Indonesian region of Banda Aceh, with 70 patients processed to date.
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If I was Alan Chapman, the acting executive director of the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, I'd be really irate right now.
Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
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.
Acting Queensland Health CIO Ray Brown has been appointed to permanently fill the chief information officer role.
Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
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