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  • FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.

  • Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

    A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

  • Vic $500m e-health project scrapped

    Victoria's $500 million e-health system, aimed at creating electronic patient records and prescriptions, has been dumped and will be replaced with a patchwork approach.

  • E-health rollout likely to be slow: Labor

    Federal health minister, Tanya Plibersek, has admitted the take up of electronic health records will likely be slow in the first few years.

  • On a merger mission

    "Our business is not just four DHBs (district health boards) but effectively we are delivering to many individual hospital departments and primary and community care organisations, working together around the patient," says Johan Vendrig, general manager information systems, at healthAlliance.

  • Q&A: Clifford Hallam Healthcare CIO, Ged Halstead

    Clifford Hallam Healthcare (CH2) CIO, Ged Halstead, has been with the healthcare logistics company for about six years. The company has undertaken a 10-year plan to improve its supply chain and warehouse initiatives to overcome data and traceability issues in the medical and pharmaceutical wholesale industry.

  • Govt website lets students compare universities

    A new website will let students compare universities on different criteria and the government already is planning its expansion.

  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research seeks CIO

    The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) is on the lookout for a new CIO to drive and manage the strategic direction, development and implementation of its IT services (ITS).

  • E-health market set to grow as Australia ages: KPMG

    IT companies are been urged to look at opportunities in the e-health market as Australia faces an aging population over the next 10 years.

  • Software glitch halts insurance, medicare claims

    Thousands of customers have been prevented from making immediate private health insurance claims and Medicare transactions because of a computer glitch.

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