Medibank Private has replaced a big-bang IT and telecommunications outsourcing deal with IBM for a "multi-vendor, elective-outsourcing" model.
The federal government has not demonstrated how its new electronic medical records network would deliver benefits, Australia's productivity watchdog reckons.
The federal welfare agency has contracted Novell to provide identity management software for its nationwide network.
Privacy advocates have slammed the new Medicare Smartcard, describing it as an insecure and technologically inept implementation.
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.
Australia's federal privacy commissioner, Malcolm Crompton, will combat "long-winded and confusing" privacy policies and statements.
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.
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.
Several countries in the Middle East are looking to Australia's IT sector to fulfil a range of projects.
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.
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.
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.
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 has won a five-year $350 million outsourcing deal to provide IT infrastructure for the government's Health agencies
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