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  Federal Govt flags e-health trial for chronically ill veterans

  The Federal Government has flagged a trial of in-house telemonitoring technology for chronically ill veterans via the National Broadband Network (NBN), kicking off in July 2012.

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  Telstra launches bundled telehealth for rural and regional patients

  Telstra has launched two new bundled telehealth offerings aimed at rural and regional healthcare providers under a $620 million Federal Government initiative.

• DoHA seeks Web portal to combat chronic disease among indigenous Australians

  The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) is on the hunt for a provider to develop and host a Web portal with the aim of better managing and preventing chronic disease among indigenous Australians.

• IBM launches R&D facility in Melbourne

  IBM has launched a new research and development lab in Melbourne, the first for the company in Australia, with a focus on global issues such as natural disasters and disease.

• Federal Govt sheds light on next round of e-health record funding

  The Federal Department of Health has revealed detailed plans for the third round of funding to be allocated to the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) next month for the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).

Whitepapers about federal government

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  A Roadmap to the Virtual Data Centre: Accelerate Your Journey to the Government Cloud

  A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR GOVERNMENT IT - Operate more efficiently. That’s the order of the day for government organisations, but obstacles are everywhere. These include soiled information, outdated IT processes, and distributed IT budgets and staff—with little consistency in how information is managed across numerous agencies and systems. Storage is growing at more than 30 percent annually. Utilisation rates are under 50 percent. Power and cooling costs account for 25 percent of the budget. Human errors cause network downtime, and new applications take two to six months to deploy. At least that was the case up until recently. Now we have the cloud.

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  Cloud Storage Solutions for Government

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  Charting Your Course for Government Transformation

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  NZ Government selects HP as panel print supplier for All-of-Government contract