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.
Queensland Health is looking to appoint a permanent chief information officer (CIO) after filling the role with an acting CIO for the past six months.
Queensland Transport (QT) has selected three core technology suppliers for the state's chip-embedded drivers' licences, which will use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt drivers' biometric information.
Queensland healthcare organisation Blue Care has signed a five-year managed services deal with Dimension Data and simultaneously announced ex-Queensland health director of e-Health Wendy Balachandran as its new chief information officer.
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.
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.
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.
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