Here are a few I have come across this week.
http://www.medicalobserver.com.au/News/0,1734,5674,20200911.aspx
E-health system crucial to reform success
Elizabeth McIntosh - Friday, 20 November 2009
AGPN National Forum, Sydney
THE success of impending health system reform will require a fully functioning e-health system, according to a leading expert.
Addressing the AGPN National Forum, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, National E-Health Transition Authority clinical lead, said e-health would lead to improvements in the safety and quality of patient care.
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http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/articles/4b/0c06524b.asp
Computer games
18-Nov-2009
Computers were supposed to make life easier, but for many GPs clinical software is becoming more complicated and frustrating. By Sarah Colyer
IT has been a nightmare for WA GP Dr Padminie Kain, who is desperately trying to recover more than 10,000 patient files after her software provider collapsed.
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http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/2009/20091028_00.html
28 October 2009
Electronic Medical Record providing safer care in our public hospitals
The Deputy Premier and Minister for Health, Carmel Tebbutt, today announced that hospitals in the Greater Western Area Health Service (AHS) were preparing to roll out an Electronic Medical Record (eMR) system to assist clinicians and provide safer care for patients.
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http://www.medicalobserver.com.au/Blog/21/110/Default.aspx
Professor Gavin Andrews
Web offers new window to treating depression
Friday, 20 November 2009
ANXIETY and depressive disorders, the internalising or emotional disorders, are the largest cause of disability in Australia. The National Mental Health Surveys show that less than half the people with these disorders see a health professional, and only a quarter get adequate treatment. Recently, Dr Norman Swan, presenter on ABC TV’s Catalyst, hosted a program about the University of NSW’s Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression’s web-based treatment for major depressive disorder...
In a randomised controlled trial of the web-based intervention versus wait list controls, 80% of the people diagnosed as having major depressive disorder completed all six online lessons, and 70% no longer met criteria for that disorder at the end of treatment.
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iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) Interview With CEO Mr Gary Cohen On Latest Developments
Sydney, Nov 20, 2009 (ABN Newswire) - iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) recently met a major delivery deadline for the UK National Programme for IT (NPfIT), under which it had to implement Lorenzo 1.9 in a care setting by November, with the National Health Service (NHS) Bury Primary Care Trust chosen as the adopter site. How effective has this implementation been and what implications does it have for iSOFT's next steps under NPfIT?
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26362702-421,00.html
Cop 'searched women's details for sex'
AAP
November 17, 2009 03:52pm
A FORMER detective was sexually motivated when he used the West Australian police computer system to access the details of more than a dozen women, a court has been told.
John Lawrence Curren, 46, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of unlawfully using police computers to access the details of 14 women when he appeared Perth Magistrates Court today.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mirixa-australia-achieves-six-month-milestones-70275002.html
Mirixa Australia Achieves Six Month Milestones
Over 40% of pharmacies nationwide now enrolled; technology-backed, pharmacist-delivered programs launched to assist patients in adhering to six common chronic care medications
RESTON, Va. and SYDNEY, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Mirixa Corporation, the leader in pharmacy-based patient care services and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, the peak body representing owners of pharmacies across Australia, announced today results of the first six months of operating activity of Mirixa Australia.
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Clarke unleashes blast on privacy
- Fran Foo
- From: Australian IT
- November 17, 2009
AUSTRALIAN Privacy Medal winner Roger Clarke has accused businesses and government agencies of "investing in image'' and "playing the public for fools'' over privacy concerns in the surveillance age.
In a broadside unleashed at the annual Privacy Awards dinner in Sydney, Dr Clarke said organisations had become "habituated to hands-off stances by parliaments and by regulators'', and simply "got on and did'' whatever they wanted.
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Ludwig flags data privacy overhaul
- Karen Dearne
- From: Australian IT
- November 17, 2009
THE Rudd government is planning to reform the federal Privacy Act to ensure businesses regularly assess the impact of new technology on their handling of personal data, Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig says.
"Rapid technological changes have meant a vastly increased capacity to collect, retain and disseminate personal information,'' Senator Ludwig told the Privacy Awards dinner in Sydney.
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'One fit for all' costs Medibank $60m
- Fran Foo
- From: Australian IT
- November 17, 2009
MEDIBANK Private will spend $60 million on IT projects this financial year as it integrates new businesses into the fold and prepares to finally bid adieu to 35-year-old systems.
Australia's largest health insurer is working to fit in the platforms Australian Health Management and Health Services Australia use after buying both companies earlier in the year.
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ID theft laws stuck in queue
- Karen Dearne
- From: Australian IT
- November 17, 2009
NEW laws aimed at preventing identity theft and giving victims a means of untangling the mess are languishing in federal parliament, 10 months after they were introduced to the Senate by then human services minister Joe Ludwig.
The Identity Crimes Bill adds three identity offences to fill gaps in existing laws: trafficking in identity data (up to five years' imprisonment); possession with intent to commit a crime and possession of equipment for the purpose of identity theft (both a maximum three years).
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http://www.6minutes.com.au/articles/z1/view.asp?id=505488
Wii boosts balance and muscle strength
by Jared Reed
Balance and muscle strength could get a boost from the new generation of fitness tools, early results from the Wii interactive gaming exercise program suggest.
Results from a pilot study in Queensland involving ten women, aged between 30-60, showed that balance and lower limb muscle strength showed significant improvement after a ten-week period exercising with Nintendo’s Wii Fit device.
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http://newmatilda.com/2009/11/19/are-you-ready-lose-your-privacy
Are You Ready To Lose Your Privacy?
We spend an increasing amount of our lives online where traditional privacy protections fail to cover us. Now governments are getting set to exploit that, writes Mark Newton
Imagine, for a moment, the kind of world you'd be living in if information about every letter you sent and received through the mail was kept in a government database. Your love letters, junk mail, subscription magazines, business correspondence all itemised, categorised and serialised, searchable by any government employee who feels like checking up on you.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/327150/gartner_lays_top_10_strategic_technologies?eid=-6787
Gartner lays out Top 10 strategic technologies
Analyst firm lays out what it thinks will be most important in 2010
20 November, 2009 12:30
At this week’s Gartner Symposium in Sydney, the analyst firm presented its top 10 strategic technologies for 2010.
Gartner senior analyst and mobile guru, Nick Jones, presented the strategic technologies, and defined them as the ones which will impact CIOs within the mainstream enterprise between the next 12 to 36 months.
“Strategic technologies will drive significant change, disruption, modifications to your strategy,” Jones said, urging all CIOs to explicitly address them in their strategy, plans and IT architecture.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/326717/fedora_linux_12_arrives_ups_multimedia_support
Fedora Linux 12 arrives, ups multimedia support
Better tablet PC support also a feature
18/11/2009 10:16:00
The Fedora 12 Linux desktop gets a new theme and other UI improvements
Fedora, the Linux-based operating system backed by Red Hat, has released version 12 with a view to improving the multimedia and graphics experience on the desktop.
Fedora 12 integrates the Empathy unified communications client that combines instant messaging, video, and audio.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/325907/windows_7_tricks_20_top_tips_tweaks?eid=-255
Windows 7 tricks: 20 top tips and tweaks
A few pointers for the upgrade
12 November, 2009 04:20
Just got your hands on Windows 7 and want to bend it to your will? No problem. We've got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, speeding up taskbar thumbnails, finding hidden desktop themes, forcing User Account Control to act the way you'd like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more.
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Enjoy!
David.
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