Australian Digital Identity ‘alpha’ launch by August: Digital Transformation Office

User centric rebuild of national online credentials.

20 December, 2016

Can UK digital whizz resurrect eHealth?

First Australian Digital Health Agency CEO.

2 August, 2016

Managing Australian citizens’ digital identities: a priority for the DTO

Third parties want to play.

31 May, 2016

Can $484mil + IBM fix myGov problems?

Human Services quadruples Big Blue spend.

14 March, 2016

Ley gets $485 million to resuscitate eHealth

NeHTA abolished as doctors get enrolment mandate.

12 May, 2015

Doctors say critical Queensland Health software bug treatable

Disconnected paper records a worse affliction.

30 October, 2014

Dentists want ‘opt-out’ eHealth record

Review of PCEHR drilled over functionality, training.

23 October, 2014

Return of JeHDI makes Defence Australia’s eHealth leader

Costs double but project clears delivery room.

22 September, 2014

Human Services and Australia Post tie knot on Digital Mail

Turnbull hits fast forward on mail volume reductions

18 August, 2014

Gonski steps down as NeHTA chair, replaced by Hambleton

Immediate former head of the Australian Medical Association appointed to steer national eHealth project.

26 June, 2014

NeHTA set to be scrapped in radical eHealth overhaul

The government’s review of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record has not only recommended that a new Commission be set up to run the scheme but that electronic records become the default.

20 May, 2014

eHealth examination probes for private sector buy-in

By Julian Bajkowski The private sector and medical providers could soon have a much bigger say in how Australia’s ailing efforts to create a national system of electronic health and medical records unfolds. The Abbott government has revealed it now wants substantial input on what non-government providers can contribute to make eHealth a reality after […]

4 November, 2013

Poor prognosis for Victorian eHealth

By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s troubled eHealth sector has been handed yet another negative appraisal after the Victorian Auditor General released a report cited “poor planning and an inadequate understanding of the complex requirements to design and implement clinical ICT systems” as the reasons for the state’s major online medical upgrade failing to deliver what it […]

31 October, 2013

Telstra reshuffle lifts focus on cloud and government

By Julian Bajkowski A major organisational overhaul at Australia’s national carrier Telstra has reset organisational and executive reporting lines for the business unit that sells into government as the corporation seeks to grow its portfolio of communications and technology services. Announced this week at a shareholder briefing, the latest corporate realignment has created a new […]

25 October, 2013