Here are a few I have come across this week.
Note: Each link is followed by a title and a paragraph or two. For the full article click on the link above title of the article.
General Comment:
The apparent trend to capture additional personal information at every turn seems to be really accelerating. The famous comment, which I paraphrase, “Your privacy has gone, so get over it!” becomes more true by the day!
The implications of all this for the adoption of, and trust in, e-Health is pretty obvious!
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http://www.cebit.com.au/news/health/sa-leads-with-eHealth-super-system
SA takes the lead with eHealth super system
6 Jan 2010
South Australia has taken the lead in e-Health with Australia’s first fully integrated electronic health record system, careconnect.sa.
The Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) component of the platform will replace the highly complex network of electronic health record systems that are currently in place.
SA Health says the aim of careconnect.sa is to create a personal, web-based platform for patients to access information from various, currently disparate sources.
“There will be no confusion as to which system holds the information; there will be one fully integrated information system and that will be careconnect.sa,” explained a spokesperson for SA Health.
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http://www.6minutes.com.au/articles/z1/view.asp?id=508849
Medicare Easyclaim usage doubles
by Michael Woodhead
Medicare Australia says that patient electronic claiming is taking off, with one in four rebates now claimed at medical practices.
The agency claims that the number of services processed using Medicare Easyclaim has doubled from around 500,000 services to more than a million in December.
Medicare says the number of medical practices offering Easyclaim has also increased from around 8000 in April to almost 15,500 last month.
In a statement, Minister for Human Services Chris Bowen said practices that used Medicare Easyclaim integrated with their practice management software were now transmitting almost 70 per cent of patient claims electronically.
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http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/articles/c1/0c0665c1.asp
End to Easyclaim incentives
4-Jan-2010
By Paul Smith
The cash incentives used to fund electronic Medicare claims in GP surgeries have ended despite a rapid uptake over the last six months.
The Federal Government has paid practices 18 cents for each claim lodged through the Easyclaim system under a $6 million Transitional Support Package introduced last year.
The payments, worth up to $12,000 a year for an average sized practice, ended on 1 January despite lobbying from GP groups which claimed the incentives were helping to cover the system’s administration costs.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/myki-to-share-our-data/story-e6frf7kx-1225817703820
Myki 'to share our data'
- Peter Rolfe
- From: Sunday Herald Sun
- January 10, 2010
PRIVACY concerns have been raised over Victoria's troubled myki "smartcard", with fears the new public transport system may be used as a Big Brother-style tool to watch commuters' moves.
The Transport Ticketing Authority has confirmed it will share commuters' travel itineraries and personal information with police.
It also may supply private information to agencies such as VicRoads, Ambulance Victoria and Metropolitan Fire Brigade.
The data-sharing scheme could result in passengers' names, phone numbers, ages and addresses being passed between agencies.
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Facial recognition nabs licence cheats
January 10, 2010 - 9:59AM
AAP
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) has begun using facial recognition technology designed to catch out licence cheats, the NSW government says.
Anyone applying for a driver's licence or photo card will now have their photo matched against the entire RTA photo database, Assistant Transport Minister David Borger says.
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http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3209759/former-isoft-bosses-charged-with-fraud/
Former iSOFT bosses charged with fraud
iSOFT bosses prematurely recognised revenues as market valued company at £1bn
By Mike Simons | Published: 12:20 GMT, 08 January 10 | CIO UK
The Financial Services Authority has launched fraud proceedings against four former directors of iSOFT Group.
Patrick Cryne, Stephen Graham, Timothy Whiston and John Whelan are to appear in court on 29 January to answer charges of making misleading statements to financial markets.
The action follows a three-year investigation of the company and relates to the recognition of revenues in accounts from the 2004 and 2005 financial years, when iSOFT was a key supplier to the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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Future of the operating system is cloudy
BRAD HOWARTH
January 4, 2010 - 2:29PM
Microsoft's Windows 7 desktop operating system may have just hit retailers' shelves, but already a new battle to control the future of personal computing is breaking out. And this time it has nothing to do with the desktop.
A four-way fight erupting between Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com and Salesforce.com is to win the title of the dominant operating system on the web, and become the most prominent company in the rapidly emerging market for cloud-based computing.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html?tag=nl.e703
January 4, 2010 12:41 PM PST
Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'
by Ina Fried
Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder.
By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.
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Comment. This actually works and a search of Cnet.com will find other interesting modes.
I have tried it. Just rename a new folder - (use copy and paste) to the following:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Just amazing!
Enjoy!
David.
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