The Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) has claimed there are systemic problems with the government's e-health identifier specifications that risk patient safety and has called for an overhaul to the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA). Speaking before a Senate hearing today, MSIA president Dr Jon Hughes said that a fundamental flaw exists with the specification of the Health Identifiers used for e-health records, which surfaced when a person was issued with a new identifier by Medicare to, for example, correct a date of birth or changing the gender.

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There are always cool new apps coming out, so it's hard to keep up. ZDNet Australia brings you a taste of some of the apps that have surfaced or been updated recently.

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ZDNet App Wrap: 6 February 2012

Passengers heading in and out of Australia's international airports will be facing random screenings via new body scanners set to be deployed around the country from July, with the government insisting that passenger privacy and safety is at the top of the list when it comes to the new technology.

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Body scanners coming to airports in July

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has called on the Federal Government to "reset expectations" that it will deliver e-health records to Australians by July this year . (Littman image by Katrin Morenz , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) AMA President Dr Steven Hambleton told a Senate hearing this morning that the government's proposed deadline for the launch of its personally controlled e-health record (PCEHR) system for all Australians by 1 July 2012 is "problematic". "We have a real problem with the level of expectation that has been set ...

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Reset expectations on e-health: AMA

Google's Android operating system may soon receive the US Government's seal of security approval, according to a report from CNN . Citing a source close to the project, CNN says that developers in a government program are working on smartphones that run a customised version of the OS with security improvements

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US military, govt turn to Android

With patent lawsuits between technology players like Apple, Samsung and Motorola all the rage nowadays, one term is popping up more frequently: "FRAND".

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What is FRAND?

With two billion people now online, we should probably start thinking about the kind of world we want to create. Enter the Society 5 project. "This is a collaborative discussion

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Society 5: our democratic digital future

Following controversy, Apple has made changes to the end user licence agreement that binds its iBooks Author software. iBooks Author (Credit: Apple) The legal agreement sparked ire following the software's introduction last month for its stipulation that books that were created with the free software would have to be made available only through Apple's iBookstore if authors intended to charge for them

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Apple eases iBooks ownership clause

It seems that applications take up a lot of the government's budget, year on year, which makes me wonder why more departments aren't following Queensland's Department of Education. The department has released a tender for a vendor to construct a plan to rationalise 35 Microsoft Access and .NET applications , calling in an external vendor to take a snapshot of what the department's got under its hood. I'm sure it's part of the Department of Human Services consolidation .

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The application nation

Symantec is reporting that it has begun to see Android malware that exhibits similar characteristics to server-side polymorphic malware in the desktop environment. (Pixel Virus image by Surian Soosay , CC BY 2.0 ) The company said that it has come across malicious Android applications hosted outside of the Android marketplace, which automatically change themselves each time they are downloaded . The malware, which Symantec's mobile-security product detects as Android.Opfake, makes changes to variable data, re-orders files in Android packages and/or inserts dummy files in an attempt to avoid detection.

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