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  • Calls for e-health to better serve rural Australia

    The Australian government must focus on e-health initiatives to better serve rural areas, the Australian Medical Association has urged.

    Rural areas face difficulties attracting and retaining doctors, and this is not likely to improve in the near future - so it is critical for government to expedite e-health services, Andrew Pesce, President of the Australian Medical Association has insisted.

  • Citizens of Australia Will Now Have Healthcare ID Number

    Even with the legislation surrounding the identifiers only passing late last week, the citizens of Australia will have Healthcare ID number from tomorrow.

    Today, the Department of Health and Ageing has validated to ZDNet Australia, that an identifier will be handed over to every person by tomorrow, corresponding the Government's original 1 July roll-out date.

    "It is planned that identifiers for individuals will be allocated within the Healthcare Identifier system (run by Medicare Australia) on 1 July 2010," the Department said.

  • City of Parramatta honoured as Australia’s ‘leading Smart City’

    The City of Parramatta has been recognised as Australia’s leading Smart City for 2020 following the rollout of a host of innovative projects and technological solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Council took out the coveted ‘Leadership City’ category at the third annual Smart Cities Awards, presented by the Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand.

  • Collaboration to produce Australia Disaster Management Platform

    University of Melbourne, IBM, and NICTA partner up

    The University of Melbourne, IBM, and National ICT Australia (NICTA) have partnered to develop the Australia Disaster Management Platform (ADMP) in response to the impact and cost of natural and man-made disasters on property and infrastructure in the past decade.

    ADMP, an open standards-based IT platform, will be developed and implemented in collaboration with emergency services while building on existing information.

  • Connecting Healthcare In Australia

    The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has warmly welcomed the recent passing of the Healthcare Identifiers Bill through the Federal Parliament and is calling on all GPs to continue driving this process.

    Dr Chris Mitchell, RACGP President, said that the passing of this legislation is the foundation needed to make e-health work in Australia and the passing of this legislation would not have been possible without the ongoing hard work and determination of general practice.

  • Could e-Government get Australia back in surplus?

    In the Government's drive to reduce the budget deficit, it identified wastage in significant areas of public service. The result is more than 70 government agencies are due to be reduced, merged, or abolished. At the same time, our business community appears in dire need of innovation: according to the ABS' most recently-released figures, less than half of our businesses are currently engaging in some form of innovative activity. But could there be a way to lower government costs andboost new IT adoption at the same time?

    The answer may lie in e-government services. By adopting an online-first model for services delivery, the Australian public sector could save millions of dollars in capital and operational costs. At the same time, this adoption would create significant new opportunities for Australian businesses developing digital services and infrastructure - not to mention thousands of new jobs in the national services and ICT industry. And such a move would be a major symbolic affirmation of the government's support for local technology innovation, one which many leading business figures would surely welcome.

  • Council of Australian Governments warned of need for e-health incentives

    The Federal Government and States have been warned that doctors and other health professionals will require financial incentives to encourage them to fully participate in the Government’s e-health plans and prepare for the introduction of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) according to the e-health transition authority Nehta.

    According to Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, a general practitioner and national clinical lead for Nehta; “The need for incentivisation is a given and was in the business case for COAG”. While this week’s Federal Budget did not allocate additional funds to pay doctors to update their IT systems, it didn’t strip money away from the e-health programme either, which has already been funded to the tune of $467 million.

  • Council of Australian Governments commits to health IDs in 2010

    The Council of Australian Governments yesterday confirmed the goal of introducing individual healthcare identifiers within the next year and vowed to put draft legislation on the table for consultation.

    "Delivering a safe, patient-centred e-health system is one step closer today, with COAG affirming its commitment to the introduction in 2010 of national healthcare identifier numbers," the council's communiqué for yesterday's meeting said.

  • Critics draw Linux in the sand over Microsoft

    Australia's federal and state governments are under fire for taking a blinkered approach to information technology spending - ignoring local companies and alternatives to Microsoft.

  • Delusion? South Australia pledges “No more big ICT projects”

    The South Australian State Government has issued a new whitepaper designed to provoke discussion of its future ICT strategy, promising as part of the document that from now on, it won’t pursue “big ICT projects” any more, with all technology-related initiatives to last 90 days at most.

    In his foreword to the paper, South Australia Connected: Ready for the Future, the state’s Premier and Minister for the Public Sector, Jay Weatherill, noted that the whitepaper (available online in various formats here) had been compiled in partnership with vendor lobby group the Australian Information Industry Association, which represents a number of industry giants such as IBM and Microsoft, as well as smaller players. The Premier noted that South Australia wanted to “embed a new culture of innovation between government agencies, and between government and industry”.

  • Der Arm der australischen Justiz ist so lang wie das Internet

    Das oberste australische Gericht ist der Meinung, dass eine Klage gegen Dow Jones vor einem heimischen Gericht verhandelt werden darf, obwohl der Finanzdienst seinen Firmensitz in den USA hat. Der Geschäftsmann Joseph Gutnik aus Melbourne sieht durch einen bei Dow Jones erschienenen Bericht seinen Ruf geschädigt. Er sei zwar von den USA aus im Internet publiziert worden, berichtet BBC, der Kläger argumentierte aber erfolgreich, dass er auch in Australien gelesen werden könne.

  • Diabetes Australia, eftpos launch e-health app

    App to provide news and other resources for people with diabetes

    Diabetes Australia and eftpos announced a mobile app providing resources on how to prevent and manage the disease.

    The free e-health app, which will be released in mid-2014, lets users enter information about their personal healthcare, lifestyle and dietary requirements. It also provides the latest news, research and medical product information related to diabetes.

  • Digital quality of life: Australia tops rankings despite ‘third-world’ broadband

    Highly affordable mobile internet has propelled Australia to the top of a global ‘digital quality of life’ index despite the nation’s beleaguered broadband network delivering some of the world’s slowest internet speeds.

    Australia was ranked first out of 65 countries in the 2019 Digital Quality of Life (DQL) index released this week by internet privacy company Surfshark.

  • Digital Regions Initiative To Improve Regional Health Services In Australia

    The Rudd Government today announced four additional projects for the Digital Regions Initiative.

    “These projects will change the way essential services are delivered to regional, rural and remote Australian communities,” the Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy said.

    “The initiative will ensure Australians living outside our major metropolitan centres benefit directly from improved access to digital health services, online educational opportunities and improved emergency and disaster response.”

  • Draft released for Australia smartcard rollout

    Draft standards and an interoperability framework for all Australian public sector agencies has been released in preparation for the federal government's billion dollar smartcard rollout.

    The three new whitepapers announced Thursday address what Special Minister of State Gary Nairn considers to be the biggest stalling point for a national smartcard rollout - interoperability.

  • E-elections put to vote in Australia and Indonesia

    The government of Australia, currently in the throes a general election, is toying with the idea of automated polling for the next election, an Australian Electoral Commission official has told FutureGov. Meanwhile Indonesia has revealed plans to introduce electronic voting in time for the country’s next presidential election in 2014.

    While electronic voting is not possible under the current legislation in Australia, other forms of automation are under discussion, said Michael Cuddihy, Director, Project Management Office, Strategic Capability Branch, AEC.

    More than 70 per cent of the AEC’s budget goes on maintaining the voter register, and automation could significantly reduce this cost, Cuddihy noted.

  • E-government in Australia: Is it working or not?

    Key Australian government agencies are failing to properly measure whether their delivery of services through online channels is "efficient and effective," according to a newly-released federal audit report.

    In a report entitled "Measuring the Efficiency and Effectiveness of E-Government", the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) said an audit of six agencies, including Austrade, Centrelink, the Child Support Agency (CSA), the Department of Health and Ageing, the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) and the National Archives of Australia, found methods "were inadequate to assess whether their delivery of government services and programs through the Internet was efficient and effective".

  • e-health Has Huge Potential And Challenges For Rural Australia

    Australians living in rural and remote areas stand to benefit substantially from e-health. However, those areas also have the poorest infrastructure in Australia - particularly access to Broadband - presenting huge challenges for rural and remote GPs.

    The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) says that e-health strategies need to take this into account and find out how rural and remote GPs can receive the resources and support they will need.

  • e-Health identifiers for Australians to be allocated next week

    The new Australian electronic healthcare database service has been on the cards for a while now. The legislation that flags off this scheme passed in the federal parliament and may be implemented next week on 1st July. This will ensure that every Australian is given a unique healthcare identification number. Doctors, hospitals, healthcare organisations and allied health providers will receive similar identifiers.

    Both bills [Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010 and Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010] were passed with government amendments.

  • E-Health Infrastructure Being Put In Place In Australia

    All the necessary infrastructure for e-healthcare is being put in place in Australia, says Peter Fleming, Chief Executive Officer of National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).

    The standards and foundations for nationwide e-health solutions in Australia have now mainly been completed, he asserts.

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