The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has launched revised information security standards and a workbook in order to prepare GPs for the Federal Government’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).
The federal government has released draft legislation for its $466.7 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) project, following the release of the Concept of Operations document earlier this month.
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber Safety has advised the Federal Government to amend the <i>Privacy Act 1988</i> to ensure certain small businesses are subject to the requirements of the Act.
The Australian Government Information Management Service (AGIMO) is on the hunt for a supplier of a managed search service for the Government Search Service, which allows people to retrieve information from public-facing government websites.
The Federal Government has established a whole of government panel for the provision of data centres to Australian Government agencies for which data centres were often an expensive component of their operational budgets.
Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has defended the government’s My School 2.0 website against claims that the Australian education system operates on a level playing field.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is considering a move to electronic only visa and citizenship applications.
Despite recommendations outlined in the 2008 Gershon report to cut back on ICT spending, the Federal Government’s ICT market peaked at $5 billion in 2008-09, with recently released data indicating it has returned to normal levels in 2009-10.
The Federal Government’s has rolled out social media services and an iPhone app for its business.gov.au portal aimed at pushing out “essential” information and resources to the business community and public.
The Federal Government is to upgrade the Emergency Alert warning system, pushing the service, which delivers SMS notifications about natural disasters out to mobile handsets, to all Australian mobile networks.
The major players in Australia’s telecommunications and IT industries were out in force yesterday to comment on the news that Labor would win Government and its flagship National Broadband Network project would go ahead. Most welcomed the news, although several had already started to look forward to the next step of the debate and rollout.
The decision to strip out over $400 million from an ICT investment fund will cause a deterioration of government services, with the blame to rest on the shoulders of the ICT industry, according to an analyst.
Federal Opposition Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has delivered a half hour sermon on Australia’s dire need to boost productivity, arguing that the freeing up of capital for business investment, rather than the Government’s investment in its National Broadband Network (NBN), would be more beneficial to the country.
When you are faced with an opponent that has a great game, sometimes the best offence is to just do what they are doing, but better.
The Australian wing of the libertarian digital rights group the Pirate Party has had to abandon its stated aim of contesting the imminent Federal Election due to election regulations.