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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.

  • Apple selling unlocked iPhones online

    What a difference a year makes; new carriers and new ways to buy Apple's touchscreen wunderkind.

  • 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.

  • Tasmanian budget: The IT details

    The Tasmanian State Government has outlined a variety of technology-related initiatives in its budget today, including funding for e-health, policing and digital marketing projects.

  • WA Health spends on iSOFT

    Western Australia's Department of Health has decided to implement Australian e-health company iSOFT's patient administration system and is in the throes of finalising a five-year support deal with the supplier.

  • Apple WWDC 2009 live blog

    We blog live at Apple's WWDC 2009 keynote speech.

  • 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.

  • Sydney power outage kills e-health systems

    Doctors in hospitals within Sydney's west had to temporarily turn back to pen and paper on Saturday when their electronic health record systems went offline, while more lost access to email.

  • ACT budget injects $90m into e-health

    The Australian Capital Territory has allocated $90 million it described as an "unprecedented level of investment" to electronic health initiatives in its annual budget, including an e-health record for all residents of the territory.

  • Rudd Govt to abolish patient privacy

    The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has slammed draft legislation brought forward by the Federal Government, which will allow it the right to access individual patients' records.

  • Telstra fights with BigPond glitch

    Telstra BigPond customers in NSW and Victoria have been having account issues since last weekend.

  • Roxon lost on e-health, opposition claims

    The Federal Government's lack of a true electronic health agenda had left an opposition offer of bipartisanship on the issue dangling useless by the wayside, Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton said yesterday.

  • iPhone OS 3.0: What you need to know

    Apple unveiled the next version of the operating system that powers the iPhone, dubbed version 3.0 offering users expanded functionality like MMS, copy and paste and a landscape keyboard.

  • BI key to e-health, says SWAHS staffer

    Using integrated business intelligence software can help harness the benefits of introducing electronic health records, according to a senior IT staffer at Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS).

  • Health identifier still privacy minefield

    Health ministers from around the country said yesterday that more consultation on privacy protections was necessary before any implementation of national individual health identification records could proceed.

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