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The Australian IT News: Western Power says no redundancies
WESTERN Power has almost completed its technology outsourcing strategy.
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ABC Health News: Brain surgery scheduled after delay raised in Parliament
A Brisbane man who has been waiting nine months for urgent surgery has had his operation scheduled for next month, after his case was raised in Queensland Parliament.
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ABC Health News: Federal action demanded on dialysis dilemma
The Senate has voted in favour of a Greens' motion calling on the Federal Government to intervene in a deadlock between the South Australian and Northern Territory governments over renal dialysis patients.
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ABC Health News: ACCC blocks cancer treatment claims
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has obtained an injunction against a Queensland man who treats people with cancer.
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ABC Health News: Death in custody 'not linked to racism'
Queensland's Corrective Services commissioner has rejected allegations that hatred of Indigenous Australians is to blame for the death in custody of an Aboriginal teenager.
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ABC Health News: Coroner recommends licensing jet skis
A coroner says people who use jet skis in Queensland should be licensed.
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ABC Health News: Fuel tanks a risky discovery for excavation workers
Workers making improvements to the main street of New Norfolk, in Tasmania's south, have made a potentially explosive discovery.
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ABC Health News: School criticised for putting autistic kids in pen
The New South Wales Opposition has described a Sydney school's decision to place children with autism into a pen during play periods as inhumane and cruel.
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ABC Health News: Waiting times blow out
A new report has revealed WA children needing speech pathology are waiting an average of almost 16 months to be assessed.
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ABC Health News: Jetstar clears plane to fly after health scare
Jetstar says its Airbus 320 plane has been cleared to fly following a health scare on a flight between Brisbane, and Mackay in north Queensland.
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ABC Health News: Chronic pain: Australia's 'shameful' situation
Healthcare professionals and industry groups are calling for chronic pain to be recognised as a disease, saying the condition is misunderstood, much like depression was 20 years ago.
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Australian Health Information Technology: NEHTA Blasted by the Australian Medical Software Industry Association At Senate Enquiry.
The following appeared late yesterday. NEHTA 'ignored' global standards, claims medical software expert Karen Dearne From: Australian IT March 11, 2010 7:00PM MEDICAL software-makers say the National E-Health Transition Authority has ignored international standards for implementation of the Healthcare Identifier service, under which Medicare will assign unique identifiers to all Australians for health record-keeping purposes. Dr Vince McCauley, immediate past president of the Medical Software Industry Association, says NEHTA has "implemented basic web standards but the higher level application standards that are available internationally have not been implemented". "There are particular standards applicable to healthcare identifiers both in terms of their structure and how they are allocated and accessed," he told a Senate inquiry into the federal government's Healthcare Identifiers Bill. "NEHTA has, to a point, used the international standards for the structure of the...
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ABC Health News: Parents give kids fewer mutated genes than thought
American scientists have for the first time unlocked the genetic code of an entire family, and made a startling discovery - that parents pass on fewer mutations than previously thought.
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ABC Health News: Brisbane man waiting for urgent brain surgery
The State Opposition says a Brisbane man has been waiting nine months for urgent brain surgery that was supposed to happen within 30 days.
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ABC Health News: Govt to probe school asbestos scare
Education Queensland (EQ) has launched an investigation into the discovery of asbestos at a north Queensland high school.
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The Australian IT News: NEHTA 'ignored' global standards, claims medical software expert
MEDICAL software-makers say the National E-Health Transition Authority has ignored international standards for implementation of the Healthcare Identifier service.
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The Australian IT News: Westp.ac domain 'sale' raises bank's ire
DAYS after trying to flog the Qant.as domain name to the Flying Kangaroo, online entrepreneur Dominic Holland has struck again with Westpac Bank in his sights.
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Australian Health Information Technology: Parliament (House of Representatives) is Debating the Health Identifiers Bill.
Go here to watch right now: http://www.aph.gov.au/live David.Update 11:22am 11/03/2010.The two bills have passed the House of Reps - Now for the Senate Debate which will be next week. The report on the Senate Enquiry is due March 15.D.
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Australian Health Information Technology: Weekly Overseas Health IT Links 11-03-2010.
Here are a few I have come across this week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a paragraph or two. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or payment. ----- http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/File+sharing+programs+might+doctors+patient+records+risk+Study/2633764/story.html File-sharing programs might put doctors' patient records at risk: Study By Laura Stone, Canwest News ServiceMarch 2, 2010 OTTAWA — Doctors who trade music on file-sharing programs might also be accidentally swapping something else: their patients' health records. In the first study to test the way personal health information is disclosed through file-sharing applications, researchers from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa discovered that software installed on home computers can make health and financial documents vulnerable to fraud or theft. For example, if a health-care...
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ABC Health News: Abbott signals support for parental leave laws
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has given his clearest indication yet that the Coalition will not try to block the Government's paid parental leave scheme.
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ABC Health News: Smoking ban survey glitch
Launceston businesses have criticised the city council for leaving them out of a survey on a smoking ban proposal.
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ABC Health News: NT tops nation in spinal injury
Territorians are nearly twice as likely to injure their spines than the average Australian according to a new report from Flinders University in Adelaide.
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ABC Health News: Health group warns of a 'renal tsunami'
Australia is facing a "renal tsunami" because of government bickering, according to the Northern Territory Aboriginal health organisation, AMSANT.
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ABC Health News: Beware Rudd health plan: LNP
The State Opposition says Australians should be wary of the Prime Minister's national health agenda.
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ABC Health News: States to meet hospital boards bill: Redmond
Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond says South Australia will have to meet the bill for hospital boards under the Federal Government's proposed hospitals takeover.
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ABC Health News: Parents warned of new child restraint laws
New child restraint laws come into effect from today.
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The Australian IT News: NBN 'dead' without Telstra: Minchin
THE opposition says the NBN is "dead in the water" without Telstra's participation.
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The Australian IT News: Telstra rivals lobby Fielding on vote
TELSTRA'S rivals urged independent Senator Steve Fielding today to change his stance and support a bill to split the telco giant in two.
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ABC Health News: Rudd flags two-tier hospital system
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Government will offer incentive payments to outstanding hospitals under its new health plan.
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ABC Health News: Questions raised over adults and children sharing wards
The New South Wales opposition is calling for answers on how many hospitals are housing adults and children in the same wards.
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The Australian IT News: iiNet in buyout talks
IINET has confirmed it is involved in early negotiations for the potential acquisition of several ISPs, including Netspace.
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The Australian IT News: Google China censorship talks near end
GOOGLE expects to soon conclude censorship talks in China, but it also told US Congress that 25 governments had blocked its services.
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ABC Health News: Blood Service reassures nervous donors
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has moved to reassure Tasmanians that blood supplies to the state will not be compromised.
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ABC Health News: Labor repeats Burnie hospital pledge
The Tasmanian Premier has reassured north-west residents that the government will buy back the Burnie hospital.
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ABC Health News: Nursing homes facing crisis, say nurses, industry
There are fears some of Tasmania's nursing homes will have to close their doors because of rising costs and staff shortages.
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ABC Health News: Alcohol a 'recurring theme' in youth violence
The chair of a long-running Federal Government inquiry into youth violence says she is starting to see a recurring connection between alcohol and aggression.
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The Australian IT News: Mexican named world's richest man
MEXICAN telecoms magnate Carlos Slim Helu has been named the world's richest man, while Australia's Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest is ranked 208.
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ABC Health News: Parents demand school asbestos answers
Parents at a north Queensland high school say they want answers from Education Queensland about whether their children have been exposed to asbestos fibres.
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ABC Health News: Increase in Indigenous babies with low birth weight
The number of Indigenous babies with a low birth weight is increasing according to a new report from the National Indigenous Health Equality Council.
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CIO Government: The number cruncher's guide to delivering IT value
I'm a qualified accountant. I even sometimes read the Accountants Journal - there, I've said it!
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CIO Executive Briefing: The number cruncher's guide to delivering IT value
I'm a qualified accountant. I even sometimes read the Accountants Journal - there, I've said it!
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The Australian IT News: Google software cloud over Microsoft
GOOGLE is broadening its assault on Microsoft's dominance of business software with an online marketplace for third-party products.
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CIO Government: Are Your Outsourcer's Prices Too Low?
It's always a good idea to benchmark your outsourcer's prices periodically against the market. But what if you find that your IT service provider's rates are too low?
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CIO Government: CRM's Identity Crisis: Duplicate Contacts
At the core of customer relationship management is "who am I talking with?" In a simple SFA or CRM system, it's obvious: you called them, or they called you. But in enterprise CRM, it's tricky to identify exactly whom the interaction is with, and every new data source seems to make it harder. The problem occurs at two levels: contact information blur from multiple databases, and avatar confusion from multiple entry points into your company's web and social networking sites. This week, we'll cover the top layer of the problem.
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CIO Executive Briefing: CRM's Identity Crisis: Duplicate Contacts
At the core of customer relationship management is "who am I talking with?" In a simple SFA or CRM system, it's obvious: you called them, or they called you. But in enterprise CRM, it's tricky to identify exactly whom the interaction is with, and every new data source seems to make it harder. The problem occurs at two levels: contact information blur from multiple databases, and avatar confusion from multiple entry points into your company's web and social networking sites. This week, we'll cover the top layer of the problem.
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CIO Government: RIM silent on data outages in North America, UK
Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom experienced data outages Monday and yesterday on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi, according to user groups and some U.S. carriers.
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ABC Health News: Government to proceed with long-awaited locks
The State Government will go ahead with ignition locks for repeat drink drivers - three years after announcing the plan.
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ABC Health News: Doctors show intended bulldozer targets
The Save the RAH Party has taken the media on a tour of the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) to boost its argument for rebuilding the hospital.
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ABC Health News: Country health boost promised by ALP
A re-elected Labor government would set up a $22 million hospital fund to improve facilities and equipment in South Australian country hospitals.
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The Australian IT News: Telstra bounces on revival of hope
TELSTRA shares enjoyed a brief reprieve from their three-month battering yesterday.
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