Movement continues within the CIO ranks as two more organisations advertise for chief information offices, including the federal Department of Health and Aging. The department is this week advertising for a Chief Information and Knowledge Officer to develop “a portfolio-wide framework for capturing, documenting and using information and knowledge”.
The Department of Health and Ageing is to embark on a 14 month project — the Pharmaceutical Consolidated Information System (PharmCIS) — to support the listing of drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Schedule (PBS). The system, to be delivered by May 2011, is aimed at enhancing the coordination and transparency of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) processes and assisting the publication of approved drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Schedule.