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The days of doctors writing prescriptions in a chicken scratch decipherable only by experienced pharmacists are numbered.

Royal Darwin Hospital has developed Australia's first online medication management system where bedside laptops replace handwritten patient records.

Australians are paying nine times more for broadband that trundles along 35 times slower than the world's fastest networks.

A report from the US has revealed Australia has become the Third World of broadband developed nations, ranking 26th out of 30 countries for its transfer speeds.

The latest round of the government's Clever Networks funding will see a AU$4.5 million grant given to a Northern Territory satellite broadband scheme.

The funding has been awarded to the SkyConnect satellite network, which will increase bandwidth to NT educational institutions and health clinics and enable remote health and education applications.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) will have ready access to the medical records of more than 750,000 residents in remote Australia under a new project backed by the federal government.

Communications Minister Helen Coonan said the federal government would provide $2.7 million towards the eHealth for Remote Australia project.

The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced funding of $4.5 million for a new satellite–based network to provide broadband services for education and health services in remote communities in the Northern Territory.

The new SkyConnect network will aim to redress the broadband deficiencies suffered by communities and homesteads across the Territory which lack effective terrestrial connections.