The healthcare industry faces a major crisis and could place patients at risk if it doesn't significantly enhance its use of information technology, an Australian expert has warned.
Healthcare may not be the first thing one associates with social networking, but Sun Microsystems and Singapore's National Healthcare Group hope their latest effort will bridge the two.
Australian citizens will be assigned a unique identifying number to help healthcare providers protect their patients from accidentally being given the wrong treatment.
Advertisements and offers for healthcare products are the dominant type of spam hitting global e-mail boxes, according to Clearswift's latest Spam Index survey.
Viewing pending privacy regulations as a potential competitive advantage rather than an unnecessary hurdle, health care education site WellMed opted to get a jump on compliance -- and it's paying off.
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.
When there are many entities operating under one umbrella, Web site design can be very tricky. This article details how one organisation used the Merant Collage content management system to overcome their problem.
The rural Spanish region of Extremadura has seized on the potential of open-source software to improve the lot of its citizens and kick start the local economy.
The managing director of VeriSign Australia, Gregg Rowley, and the CEO of SecureNet Asia-Pacific, Paul O'Rourke, go head-to-head to provide the answers.
Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.
Designed for truly mobile computing, there are two types of tablet PCs -- convertible and slate. In this guide, we show you what's available in Australia and whitepapers for making a business case to purchase Tablet PCs.
Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
Trying to keep corporate secrets away from prying eyes? We evaluate five encryption software packages
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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