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    State Health Departments Urged to Heed Warnings of Failure 04 October, 2007 12:25:47

    Australian State Health Departments may be headed for trouble unless they can learn the lessons of failed transformation projects overseas.
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    A Big Pill to Swallow 19 February, 2007 14:10:55

    According to a recent study by Massachusetts General Hospital and George Washington University, less than 25 percent of all US doctors use some form of electronic health records (EHRs) in their practices. Far fewer - only around 10 percent - have fully operational health information systems that collect patient health data, manage information such as orders for lab tests and prescriptions, and provide decision support.
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    E-health data standards close to confirmation 01 August, 2005 09:30:28

    The federal government is only weeks away from formalizing data standards for Australia's national electronic health record system.
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    Academic says HealthConnect will not meet Abbott's timeframe 07 July, 2005 09:56:10

    Health Minister Tony Abbott's ambitious plan to have an electronic health record system operational is highly unlikely to meet a 12 month timeframe according to Dr David More, adjunct professor of Health Informatics at the University of Canberra.
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    Stalled electronic records frustrate IT health sector vendors 09 June, 2005 07:46:13

    Government inaction on on the implementation of a national electronic records system continues to frustrate IT health suppliers.
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    Home grown integration solution nears production 07 April, 2005 07:42:43

    After three years of development and six months of testing, the locally-developed Health Data Integration (HDI) application will go into production at the end of May to help analyze health information in Queensland.
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    You Can Lead a Government to XML . . . 17 January, 2005 13:54:00

    Extensible Markup Language was once heralded as the lingua franca of e-government. More than six years down the road, however, it is still more of a regional dialect
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    NSW electronic health records system goes live 15 September, 2004 08:07:29

    The NSW Department of Health will begin prototyping its new electronic health records project this month in what is believed to be the first, wide-scale online patient information database of its type in Australia.
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    DSTC Develops IT Set To Improve Australia's Health System 11 May, 2004 07:39:27

    Australian governments’ plans to introduce an electronic health record for all patients by 2010 took another leap forward last week, with the signing of contracts for two more trial projects.
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    The Best Medicine 10 May, 2004 12:34:51

    The health-care industry is learning how to cope with change, and so are the CIOs in that industry
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    Police Eye Health Records System 28 October, 2003 11:18:28

    Australian police forces may soon adopt a system originally developed to allow the online exchange of health and patient information between individuals and health-care providers.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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