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Australian Health IT News
Australian Health IT News is an aggregation of the leading international and Australian health IT news sites and blogs. This combined news database is then searched for articles relevant to Australia.
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ABC Health News: 36 hour wait for medical evacuation
The Northern Territory aero medical service has come under fire after a Port Keats woman had to wait on a hospital gurney for 36 hours with a broken leg.
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ABC Health News: Push for melancholia to be listed as illness
Melancholia has been out of favour for more than 20 years after being dropped from the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual for mental illness in 1980.
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ABC Health News: Privately run public hospitals opposed
The State Opposition plans to introduce legislation in an attempt to stop the government from allowing private companies to run Western Australia's public hospitals.
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ABC Health News: Kids told to step up fight against obesity
Former Olympians Cathy Freeman and Herb Elliott have launched a program to tackle obesity in Australian children.
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ABC Health News: Northern asthma alert
The Asthma Foundation is warning north-east Tasmanians affected by respiratory illness to stay indoors today and keep medication on hand.
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ABC Health News: Good take-up at free swine flu vaccinations
More than 55,000 Queenslanders have been vaccinated against swine flu so far at free weekend clinics being held at high schools around the state.
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ABC Health News: Cannabis use soars in Indigenous communities
The use of cannabis in remote far north Indigenous communities is increasing, even among children as young as 10, according to a Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) report.
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ABC Health News: Medical students still without internships
Medical education advocates say many graduates may not get the internships they need to complete their qualifications despite the Federal Government's $632 million training package announced this week.
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ABC Health News: Bligh 'overcomes squeamishness' and donates blood
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says she has conquered her squeamishness about donating blood and will become a regular giver.
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ABC Health News: Katherine mayor says alcohol restrictions not working
The mayor of Katherine says alcohol restrictions have failed to help her community.
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ABC Health News: British pensioners lose payment fight
British pensioners living in Australia will now be on tighter budgets after losing a bid to have their payments from the United Kingdom increased according to inflation.
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ABC Health News: Indigenous health funding a win-win
The West Australian General Practice Network says $145 million in Indigenous health funding is a step in the right direction.
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ABC Health News: Surgeons boycott TAC, WorkCover claims
A woman from Caramut, in south-west Victoria, says surgeons have refused to treat her because she is a Transport Accident Commission (TAC) patient.
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Australian Health Information Technology: AusHealthIT Man Poll Number 12 – Results - 17 March, 2010
The question was: Should the Rudd Health Program be Approved by the Council Of Australian Government without Publishing Details of the E-Health Proposal. You Are Kidding? 25 (56%) Not Sensibly 9 (20%) Neutral 0 (0%) Possibly 5 (11%) Yup, I Trust Them 5 (11%) Votes 44. Comment: Well, that is pretty clear. No clarity on e-Health, no progress on reform! Thanks again to all who voted. David.
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Australian Health Information Technology: Weekly Australian Health IT Links - 17-03-2010.
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. General Comment: There is little doubt the key e-Health event of the last week was the Senate Enquiry into the proposed Health Identifier Service. This has had extensive coverage on the blog with all sorts of positions put. It was impressive that on a Saturday the article published on the topic garnered 170 page view and 11 comments in just one day – an indicator of the level of interest I would suggest. If you missed this article is here: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-4pm-friday-information-release.html The release of the report of the Senate Report on March 15, 2010 (Monday) will be fascinating after they will have digested almost 10 hours of testimony and 50+ submissions. Now released, see here: ...
This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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ABC Health News: Coal dust health claims 'misleading'
A resident in Gladstone, in central Queensland, says comments from the State Government that coal dust is not a risk to people's health are misleading.
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ABC Health News: Technology key to combating fatigue, says NRMA
The state's peak motoring group says police are right to be planning a crackdown on fatigue, but pulling drivers over on suspicion may not be workable.
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ComputerWorld Telecoms: Telstra jumps on desktop videoconferencing bandwagon
Telstra has moved to address declining PSTN revenues with the launch of a new desktop video phone aimed at business customers and designed to encourage them to up their data spend through the use of videoconferencing.
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The Australian IT News: TPG finalises Pipe buyout
PIPE Networks will start the delisting process today after Queensland's Supreme Court approved TPG Telecom's $373 million takeover of the cabling specialist.
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The Australian IT News: Health identifier bill delayed
SENATE consideration of the Rudd Government's controversial Healthcare Identifiers Bill will not take place until budget day on May 11.
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Australian Health Information Technology: Sudden Increase in E-Health Blogging in Australia.
I had always thought I had found a topic so obscure that there would be very little interest in adding to the space. Seems I was wrong! We now have Mr Charles Wright blogging away on matters e-Health as well. See here for all the latest. http://www.ehealthcentral.com.au/ Incidentally I also noticed there is more related blogging activity happening here: http://www.thehealthhub.org.au/pg/mod/blog/everyone.php It is a bit slow at present, but you never know when it might decide to kick along. Maybe a few more HISA people can contribute to kick it along. I also hear the there are others thinking of joining the space – no names, no packdrill! Welcome all! David.
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The Australian IT News: Google's China partners face ruin
GOOGLE'S partners in China face financial ruin, but the web giant is unwilling to discuss options if it shuts down its search engine.
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ABC Health News: Midwife changes 'will lead to better healthcare'
Medical workers in the ACT have welcomed new rules allowing nurse practitioners and midwives to prescribe drugs and order tests under Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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ABC Health News: Expert downplays school asbestos risk
An occupational medicine expert says there is little chance that students at a north Queensland school have been exposed to asbestos.
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The Australian IT News: NBN study suppressed
THE federal government declined to make public the $25 million NBN implementation study , saying it needed more time to review the report before deciding to release it.
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ABC Health News: Blind soldier 'sees' with his tongue
A British soldier left blind by a grenade in Iraq has told how his life has been transformed by ground-breaking technology that enables him to "see" with his tongue.
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ABC Health News: Quality against quantity in the US health reforms
"We need courage," president Obama said, as he kicked off a week already deemed the make-or-break week for health care reform.
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ABC Health News: Man dies of meningococcal disease
A man from the New South Wales Hunter Valley has died from meningococcal disease.
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The Australian IT Business: Google launches ads on maps
GOOGLE has moved to attract advertising to its popular maps application with Australia becoming the test bed for advertiser logos on map searches.
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ComputerWorld Telecoms: Perth Zoo quits monkeying with its analogue PABX
Perth Zoo is to move to a new IP telephony which will service the organisation for the next 10 years, according to the Western Australia Zoological Parks Authority (ZPA).
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ABC Health News: Honda recalls 412,000 'soft' brake vehicles
Honda has announced the recall of some 412,000 vehicles in the United States because of problems with "soft" brakes in the latest major blow to the embattled Japanese auto industry.
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ABC Health News: Liver transplant ready to go ahead
A 25-year-old West Australian woman with a history of drug addiction will undergo a live liver transplant in Singapore tomorrow.
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Australian Health Information Technology: What Will Happen Next With the Health Identifier Bill?
As reported in the last 24 hours we now have had the Inquiry and have the Report from the Senate on the Healthcare Identifiers Bills (2010). See here: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2010/03/senate-recommends-passage-of-hi-service.html And here: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2010/03/minority-coalition-report-on-hi-service.html The Bills has already passed the House of Representatives: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2010/03/parliament-house-of-representatives-is.html While it is clear the Labor Government is happy to pass the Bills in their present form the same is by no means clear as far as the Coalition is concerned. The Opposition has a pretty strong position in the Senate and these sections of their Minority Report make one feel they may really want some changes (from a principled perspective I believe). Especially these three areas appear to be of concern to the Opposition. (Quoted from the report). Stand alone provisions During the course of the inquiry, the...
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ABC Health News: Approval for Midland health campus plans
The Commonwealth has given the go ahead for the private sector to run the new $360 million Midland health campus, provided there are no job losses.
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ABC Health News: Taking the sting out of jack jumper ants
A program to desensitise people to the potentially fatal jack jumper ant in Tasmania has been declared a success.
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ABC Health News: NT to get 'fair share' of rural doctors
The Northern Territory will get its fair share of doctor trainees under the Federal Government's plan to double GP training places by 2014, according to the Minister for Rural and Regional Health.
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ABC Health News: Joyce breaks ranks on parental leave
Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce says his leader Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme will push up the prices of basic foodstuffs such as bread and milk.
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ABC Health News: Bananas help fight against HIV
Scientists say a plant protein found in bananas could be a powerful weapon in the fight against HIV.
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ABC Health News: HIV infections increasing in Queensland
Queensland Health says the number of reported HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) cases in the state is climbing.
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ABC Health News: Marj was a mistake, admits Rann
Premier Mike Rann has admitted the South Australian Government made a mistake when it planned to name the new Royal Adelaide Hospital after Marjorie Jackson-Nelson.
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ABC Health News: Extra rural doctors welcome but support needed
Doctors say the Federal Government's initiative to send more GPs to rural and regional areas is welcome but warns that the plan is not a quick fix solution.
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CIO Executive Briefing: Career Turning Points: Zero in on Business Impact
Within five years of moving into IT management, Jay Kerley found his purpose: working with the business to affect business outcomes and results. And he set his sights on the CIO role when it became clear that the best way to create change and effect a business impact on as wide a scale as possible is to have that executive-level, strategic role. "With a CIO's cross-division view of processes, you are in the position to shift and turn the company," says Kerley, who was promoted to the position of deputy CIO at Applied Materials in 2009.
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ComputerWorld Telecoms: Open-Xchange adds integration with VoIP
Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has integrated VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and social networking sites in the latest version of its e-mail server and client.
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CIO Executive Briefing: Weinman: Biz, ecosystem are keys to cloud evolution
These days, cloud computing may be the hottest topic in IT industry as many firms are planning to unleash cloud service or already starting to deploy cloud service.
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The Australian IT Business: Terror moves into the digital age
ONLINE is the new front line in the security war, according to our primary electronic spy agency.
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The Australian IT News: Online grants system proves a nightmare
THE new online application system for medical research grants is so frustrating and inadequate it risks losing talented researchers to other professions, a peak medical researcher body has warned.
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The Australian IT News: Conroy set for clash over NBN
THE Rudd government will today defy a Senate order by not releasing the study into the costs, structure and financial viability of the $43 billion national broadband network.
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The Australian IT News: Terror moves into the digital age
ONLINE is the new front line in the security war, according to our primary electronic spy agency.
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The Australian IT News: Telstra sells 10-year bonds
TELSTRA has sold Euro1 billion ($1.5bn) worth of 10-year bonds.
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The Australian IT News: US aims to lead world in net speed
WASHINGTON: US regulators have unveiled an ambitious plan to make the US world leaders in high-speed internet access over the next decade.
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