The Indiana Network for Patient Care announced Tuesday that Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., has joined 40 other hospitals and clinics that are part of an online network which handles one of the nation's highest volume of health information exchanges.

The Rs. 1011 crore project is to be implemented in a planned and phased manner over a period of four and half years from April, 2010 to September, 2014.

We will bring a series of reports from Digital Africa – it is a very exciting group of people who truly have the best interests of Africa as their key objective. Kicked off by Dr. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya, Vice President of Uganda, the conference also included ministers of communications from Uganda, Niger, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso. Other nations are well represented with representatives from the private sector, government, and education.

No, I'm serious!

Like so many British Columbians I have this love/hate relationship with government, did I say love? No, that is not right, let's make that tolerate/hate relationship. Of all the things our government does, the thing I tolerate the most is the direction our government is taking in online services and e-government.

The government is like any other organization, it needs to embrace technological change and use it to be more competitive, or efficient.

Launched in early March, Miami 311 pulls data from the telephone-based system and displays it on an online map. Residents can view an average of 4,500 issues in progress on the map instead of a list and filter searches based on type of request, date, district and status, according to Stuart McKee, Microsoft national technology officer. Using the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, Bing mapping and Silverlight, Miami 311 was created by two people over an eight-day-period, with no up-front costs, according to a city press release.

National E-Health Transition Authority chief executive Peter Fleming told a Senate inquiry into the Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Bill that - once the legislation and as yet undisclosed regulatory controls are passed by Parliament - up to 6 million Australians could have Medicare-assigned unique patient numbers, intended to support clinician access to personal health information, within that timeframe.

This week it was posted on the official web site of the state of Alabama, that a new (and free) iPhone application is being released courtesy of Alabama.gov. Available now from iTunes and Apple’s App Store, the state of Alabama is looking to boost everything from tourism to resident awareness about state happenings through the new app.

The state’s official Web site, originally launched in November 2005, now has a fresh new look and new features organized to improve citizen and business access to government information. Enhancements include an updated design, better resources for local government information, and new social media tools that encourage interaction between citizens and the state.