With $467 million being spent on personal e-health records by July next year and a further $350m committed to tele-health initiatives from this July, observers are not expecting any new money for health IT projects.
But, as the house inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network is demonstrating, medical connectivity cannot wait for the NBN.
The Office of Shared Services, the brainchild of the former Gallop government, was intended to help the Budget bottom line by combining the human resources, payroll, finance and procurement functions of up to 90 government departments into one centralised agency.
But a review by the Economic Regulation Authority has found the office has instead been a financial and operational disaster.
Weiterlesen: AU: Western Australia: State agency 'wastes' millions
The Northern Territory has allocated $6.6 million toward telehealth services at 17 remote towns in the territory, marking its first financial contribution since the initiative was announced a year ago.
The allocation, announced in the 2011/2012 budget released this week, will form part of a $16.4 million funding package over three years to establish video conferencing sites, telehealth capabilities and e-learning capabilities for students at 17 of 20 towns marked as growth sites by the territory government.
Weiterlesen: AU: Northern Territory makes first e-health contributions
It is an initiative funded and supported by the Department of Human Services, the Department of Planning and Community Development and the Office for the Community Sector
This free information session is targeted to chief executive officers or leaders of community service organisations (CSOs).
Weiterlesen: AU: ICT help for NGOs - iTaNGO Information Session
In March communications minister Stephen Conroy and prime minster, Julia Gillard, chose a retail store in Perth to announce that they would release, at the end of May, a National Digital Economy Strategy.
They promised that: "The National Digital Economy Strategy will provide the framework that will enable industry and business to build on and take full advantage of this world class infrastructure [the NBN]."
Weiterlesen: AU: In search of the elusive National Digital Economy Strategy