Questions fly over billion dollar overhaul of Human Services

Opposition demands release of business case and costings.

16 April, 2015

Thanks a billion: Centrelink’s megasystem overhaul looks primed for Budget

McClure report recommendations set to trigger real-time tech upgrades for Human Services, Tax.

26 February, 2015

Doctors say critical Queensland Health software bug treatable

Disconnected paper records a worse affliction.

30 October, 2014

Queensland state government jumps onto Microsoft’s cloud

The Campbell Newman government has entered a new deal with computer giant Microsoft to deliver cloud-based software to public sector offices.

10 April, 2014

QLD’s ban on IBM stays put as state government sues for damages

By Julian Bajkowski Queensland premier Campbell Newman has confirmed that a ban on IBM securing new public sector business in the state is still standing after the government commenced legal action for damages late last week in the Supreme Court of Queensland. A spokesman for the Premier told Government News that there has been “no […]

9 December, 2013

Queensland releases government technology vision

By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland Government has set out its grand vision for recasting how the state’s public sector buys and consumes more than $1.6 billion a year in technology services, software and infrastructure, confirming it will dump confirmed the longstanding build-own-operate model in favour of buying technology as a service. In a set of […]

30 August, 2013

Doctors and DoHA hold eHealth crisis talks

By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has held crisis talks with the head of the federal Department of Health and Ageing, Professor Jane Halton, over the unprecedented walkout of clinical advisors from the nation’s decade long $1 billion effort to build a functional eHealth system. Held on Tuesday, the meeting followed calls by […]

23 August, 2013

Doctors ready to pull plug on eHealth

By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s long and troubled efforts to create a functioning national system of electronic health and medical records system is once more close to collapse. The Australian Medical Association has expressed serious concerns over clinician input into the project following the shock resignation of highly respected clinical representative Dr Mukesh Haikerwal from the […]

16 August, 2013

Councils avoid ban on buying from IBM

By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government’s unprecendented ban on giving IBM new business after the $1.2 billion Health Payroll software disaster will not be imposed on local governments and councils, the minister responsible for the sector had confirmed. Queensland Local Government Minister David Crisafulli has told Government News that councils will not be hit by […]

12 August, 2013