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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Home-grown streaming service Quickflix is rapidly gaining momentum after content giant Home Box Office (HBO) today made a multimillion-dollar investment in the company, but Quickflix founder Stephen Langsford told ZDNet Australia that the company needs to be careful to avoid the mistakes of US streaming giant, Netflix.

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Quickflix looks to avoid Netflix's failures

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

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?

European Union officials have asked Google to refrain from implementing its plans to share user information across all of its services until the privacy implications can be analysed, but Google is standing its ground.

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Google policy changes irk EU officials

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

You can't run a successful internet service provider in this country without a lot of air travel, and it's no different for Larry Kestelman, founder of Dodo. Larry Kestelman (Credit: Dodo) What tech do you travel with and why

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Travel Tech Q and A: Dodo's Larry Kestelman

in brief IT giant Accenture has nabbed yet another core deal in the government's national health-reform push, winning a data-warehousing contract worth $111 million. According to the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), the contract, awarded in late December, will see Accenture implement data warehousing, analytics and reporting systems for health agencies, including the National Health Funding Body, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the National Health Performance Authority and the Independent Hospitals Pricing Authority. Accenture is no stranger to government contracts, after scoring $47.8 million last year when it was named head of the consortium responsible for developing the government's personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system .

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Accenture scores $111m health IT deal