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  • Medibank ditches big-bang IBM GSA deal

    Medibank Private has replaced a big-bang IT and telecommunications outsourcing deal with IBM for a "multi-vendor, elective-outsourcing" model.

  • HealthConnect gets productivity check-up

    The federal government has not demonstrated how its new electronic medical records network would deliver benefits, Australia's productivity watchdog reckons.

  • Centrelink backs up fingerprint scanners with Novell

    The federal welfare agency has contracted Novell to provide identity management software for its nationwide network.

  • Hackers on Medicare smart card waiting list

    Privacy advocates have slammed the new Medicare Smartcard, describing it as an insecure and technologically inept implementation.

  • CeBIT forum tackles e-government

    This year's CeBIT Australia forum is expected to stir a lot of debate with the topic on eGovernment and how the ICT industry and consumers benefit from it.

  • Aust privacy comissioner tackles long-winded policies

    Australia's federal privacy commissioner, Malcolm Crompton, will combat "long-winded and confusing" privacy policies and statements.

  • AU govt business continuity, info security lacking: auditor

    Australian government bodies' information security and business continuity management controls include several deficiencies, with outsourcing contracts the source of many problems, a new report claims.

  • Security remains on CIOs agendas

    Recent international incidents have heightened the importance of information technology security. But increased security doesn't have to be at the expense of end user's privacy, argues an Australian CIO.

  • Alston returns from Mid-east road trip

    Several countries in the Middle East are looking to Australia's IT sector to fulfil a range of projects.

  • PKI in Australia: Govt. leads the way

    Although the Australian Government's Gatekeeper initiative to implement PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology for electronic transactions was established just over three years ago, there hasn't been much headway in seeing its acceptance in the wider business community.

  • 'PKI' to benefit health sector

    Recent reports focusing on the potential hazards associated with public key infrastructure (PKI) to secure online medical records have been dismissed as being 'negative' and 'largely unfounded' by one industry expert.

  • Health Insurance Commission goes PKI

    The Health Insurance Commission is set to roll out what is understood to be the first project using digital certificates issued under the Commonwealth Government's PKI strategy, Gatekeeper.

  • IBM for Health Dept

    The Australian Federal Government and IBM Global Services Australia have signed a Health Group Agencies IT outsourcing agreement which will provide IT&T services worth $350 million over five years to the Department of Health and Aged Care, the Health Insurance Commission and Medibank Private.

  • IBM Global Services wins $350M health contract

    IBM Global Services has won a five-year $350 million outsourcing deal to provide IT infrastructure for the government's Health agencies

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