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IBA Health was positioned as a global player in the burgeoning Health Informatics market and would launch its long-anticipated Lorenzo platform in November, the company’s executive chairman and CEO Gary Cohan said.
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ASX-listed Objective Corporation has sealed further work with the South Australian Government, announcing a deal with with the state's Health Department.
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A powerful Congressional subcommittee in the US has approved a bill to push the adoption of electronic health records (eHealth) in the American health system.
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Medibank Private has awarded a five-year, $72 million managed network services contract to Telstra, bringing substantial voice, mobile and contact centre work back to the company. |
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THE Commonwealth has announced joint-funding for a remote area Western Australian broadband emergency and health services development project. |
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THE founding chief executive of the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) Dr Ian Reinecke, who has led the board since October 2004, has quit the post. |
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THE Brussels-based European Union has identified eHealth as a high-value potential market for European companies and will enact key policies to accelerate development in the sector. |
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MICROSOFT has continued its focus on the e-health care sector, announcing it will acquire a Thai-based health information system provider specialising in enterprise-class solutions. |
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THERE aren’t many companies that could launch a service that proposes to manage personal health and medical records via the Web without being laughed out of town … or simply ignored. |
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AUSTRALIA’S largest listed eHealth specialist IBA Health has won long-sought shareholder approval for its $A$411 million acquisition of UK health software maker iSoft. |
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Australia’s broadband research organisation AARNet has assisted with an advance in medical technology, connecting Australian surgeons to a “shared surgical event” conducted in China. |
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NETWORK giant Cisco Systems is looking to the health sector as the next big growth area for its new generation communications products. |
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WITH the election looming, the stream of funding announcements pouring from Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan’s office is turning to a flood. |
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FEDERAL Trade Minister Warren Truss has threatened to complain to the WTO about intellectual property protection in China less than two weeks before a senior Chinese information technology delegation arrives in Australia. |
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JUST a year after launching the Europe top level internet domain .eu, more than 2.5 million names have been registered with taken up the European address.
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THE international body responsible for co-ordinating internet addresses has rejected a push to set up .xxx as a new top-level domain to act as an online red light district for porn content companies. |
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FEDERAL Labor has launched a national radio advertising campaign aimed at galvanising the support for its ambitious national broadband network. |
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FEDERAL Labor has agreed to support legislative amendments that will extend the roll-out of the SmartGate border security technology project – but expressed little faith in Customs to stick to its budget. |
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THE Australian government has rejected a renewed push from parts of the internet community for a restricted, made-for-porn .XXX top-level domain. |
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GOOGLE’S top corporate officer in the region has welcomed the Federal debate about funding broadband, but warned that access speeds are just one issue. |
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GOVERNMENT claims that it private sector will complete building a high-speed national broadband network without taxpayer assistance were fanciful, Labor communications spokesman Stephen Conroy said. |
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LINUX and Macintosh users will soon be able to file their tax returns online – just as Microsoft users have for a decade – as the ATO revamps its eTax system to make it platform agnostic. |
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A future Labor government would spend $4.7 billion with the private sector in an Australia-wide broadband network to drive productivity and underpin new education initiatives, Federal leader Kevin Rudd said. |
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THE Howard Government has unveiled sweeping plans to employ Web 2.0 practices to encourage greater citizen participation in policy-making. |
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AUSTRALIANS continue to fall prey to crimes of identity theft in unprecedented numbers – despite large-scale awareness campaigns highlighting identity theft as a major new criminal activity. |
