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  • Tassie goes to market for more e-health

    Tasmania has gone to market for further e-health services in a continuation of its push to upgrade the health technology capabilities in its hospitals.

  • X-rays make digital debut in regional WA

    Misplacing X-rays will no longer be a concern for patients in regional Western Australia, with the installation of a new system to store and distribute radiology images.

  • Horror story: Qld Health datacentre disaster

    On 20 May, a brief electricity brown-out struck a Queensland Health datacentre, starting a chain of incidents that resulted in serious outages of over 20 health applications. Read our blow by blow account of an event that constitutes every CIO's nightmare scenario.

  • Blacktown Hospital test blood-and-guts proof PCs

    Blacktown Hospital has run a trial of a tablet PC designed specifically for the healthcare industry even blood and guts won't slow it down.

  • UK hospitals get anti-infection keyboard

    The NHS has taken delivery of 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards, which could significantly cut the rates of hospital bugs such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile.

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    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.

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

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  • Photo gallery: Intel checks into the hospital

    Intel and Motion Computing design a tablet-like PC specifically for medical professionals.

  • 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.

  • NSW hospital increases storage capacity for imaging system

    The John Hunter hospital in New South Wales has adopted storage solution provider StorageTek's D-series disk products to support its rapidly expanding picture archiving and communications system (PACS).

  • NSW mothers to get state-wide database

    Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.

  • 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.

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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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  • Intel's sights on lip-reading software

    Intel has released software that lets computers read lips, a step forward that could lead to better voice recognition applications.

  • Coraccess Web Tablet: Huge display, flat computer

    Tablet computing is the next big thing, or so the pundits are telling us. But in some industries, tablets are already old hat. The big news will be when tablet computers break into the consumer market.

  • Intel taking Internet to Mars

    Intel is working on bringing the Internet to the bottom of the ocean, the surface of Mars and, on a more prosaic note, into conference room thermostats and hospital charts.

  • Voice over IP + wireless LAN = ?

    It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.

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