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The Victorian Government has made the decision to scrap its HealthSMART system, which was years overdue and had run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. HealthSMART was launched in 2003 and had been designed to run as a single electronic foundation for the state's public health service. The single platform would combine a finance system, as well as patient-management and clinical-applications services.

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Vic scraps HealthSMART system

If you're looking for a cloud storage app, a tool to help you conduct safety audits or something to find your stuff for you, we've got it all here on this week's app wrap.

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ZDNet App Wrap: 30 April 2012

Claiming a Medicare rebate using your debit card will soon be possible all over the country, according to Senator Kim Carr. (Littman image by Katrin Morenz , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Patients are already able to pre-register their account information with Medicare at sites around the country, in order to enable direct rebates to be made into their bank accounts. This new announcement will see the existing system expanded, allowing patients to swipe their payment card at a Medicare service counter to have a rebate credited to their account.

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Medicare ditches cash for debit cards

As the Federal Government stalls on making a decision about whether to make data-breach notifications mandatory, the office of the information commissioner has released a formal guide designed to encourage organisations to voluntarily notify the public about data breaches. The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recommended in its 2008 report "For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice" that the Federal Government introduce mandatory data-breach notification laws that would require any Australian organisation that has a data breach involving individuals' private data to notify the affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)

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Data-breach guide released to firms

Australian Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has announced a parliamentary inquiry into high product prices in the Australian IT and technology sector. Conroy made the announcement yesterday after being approached by Labor MP and federal member for Chifley Ed Husic

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said today that he has been meeting with the internet industry on implementing the voluntary internet filter and is expecting a positive outcome.

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Conroy plans filter 'surprise' announcement

Turnbull today has come out swinging at the government's National Broadband Network (NBN) three-year roll-out plan, airing his disbelief that NBN Co can reach 3.5 million premises in the time allocated. NBN Co today said that it would in the next three years reach about a third of the premises to be reached in the complete roll-out .

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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is looking into the possibility of developing a web application for e-tax, even though its current study to port the application to another platform only considers Mac OS X.

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ATO mulls e-tax as a web application

The saying goes that you should never do business with family; something that Supre's international brand manager Catherine Taouk is now realising as she struggles to explain the gravity of the company's IT requirements to her boss, father and company founder Hans van der Meulen. Supre's international brand manager says that she often feels the company is behind the 8-ball online. (Tempting fate image by Michael Mol , CC2.0 ) "I often feel like we are behind the 8-ball sometimes because we are a family-owned and -operated business," Taouk admitted today at the launch of eBay's third annual online business index, which surveyed hundreds of local eBay sellers to distil the state of the Australian online retail sector.

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