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    The National E-Health Transition Authority has nicked a top technology executive from the National Australia Bank to be its new chief executive.

  • NEHTA gags stakeholder forum

    Australia's peak e-health body has held the first meeting of a new forum designed to address past failures to adequately engage government and industry stakeholders but individuals in the group have been gagged from talking about details.

  • NEHTA denies stakeholder 'gag'

    Members of the National E-Health Transition Authority's (NEHTA) new stakeholder group have not been gagged, the outgoing CEO of the publicly funded company said today.

  • IBA picks up $3.5m NZ work

    ASX-listed e-health vendor IBA Health has secured AU$3.5 million worth of contract extensions with three New Zealand district health boards through its subsidiary iSOFT.

  • Objective tops Tower for SA Health deal

    ASX-listed software company Objective has won a new electronic document and records management (EDRMS) contract with SA Health, leaving rival firm, Hewlett-Packard-owned Tower Software, eating its dust.

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    Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.

  • Hospital's recovery hot site bears fruit

    Learn how the Hunterdon Hospital in the US deployed a new infrastructure that aims for no service interruption.

  • Making the security ROI model work

    Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?

  • Bankstown print refresh boosts green space

    For Bankstown City Council, a 170,000-resident council south-west of Sydney, a desire to regain control of its printing environment -- and to reduce its impact on the environment -- recently led to a complete reconsideration of its printing, scanning and faxing processes.

  • Networking: What can you expect in 2008?

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    Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.

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    The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.

  • Archival survival guide

    In this special report, we review six archival options in the market.

  • NAS for the rest of us: 4 storage solutions

    We test and compare NAS devices designed to suit a specific set of medium-enterprise requirements.

  • Parents sue US school district for Wi-Fi use

    Parents and students attending an Illinois school district are suing over the use of Wi-Fi technology in classrooms, alleging that exposure to the low-level radio waves may be damaging to students' health.

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