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.
An open source specialist has launched an international project between national health agencies and government-funded organisations to develop interoperable platforms for electronic healthcare products and services.
With Australia now facing an ageing population -- and the added stress of having one of the most geographically dispersed people -- Telstra's CEO Sol Trujillo is talking up the Internet as one way to tackle upcoming health issues.
Google launched a new initiative aimed at the health care market this week and announced major industry partners including universities, pharmacies and hospitals, declaring its intention to give people access to all their healthcare information in the one spot.
Accounting software company Sage Group said on Wednesday that its parent company is venturing into the health care field with the $565 million acquisition of Emdeon Practice Services, which makes software for doctors' offices.
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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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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.
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.
Other firms may stake a claim on the connected home of the future based on bulging storehouses of movies and music, smart fridges or smart phones.
The chipmaker is moving into high-tech fabrics, including a jacket with a built-in MP3 player.
Australians will have access to mobile videophones, multimedia on the move and broadband Internet access on their mobile phones by mid-2002 -- 18 months earlier than the US. Seems the Lucky Country just got luckier.
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