Health chiefs say the introduction of telehealth services in remote western communities could address a shortage of general practitioners.
About 100 people from 37 health councils have gathered in Dubbo, to voice their concerns about issues affecting areas such as Orange, Forbes, Goodooga, Cobar and Grenfell.
The Western Local Health District's Chief Executive Scott McLachlan says in the next five to 10 years, more than one-third of the workforce will retire and there needs to be a way to attract medical professionals to the western region.
Read more: AU: Telehealth services hailed as one way of delivering medical care to remote patients
Developing a digital government strategy is a significant and complex challenge for public sector CIOs, but there are some steps you can follow, says Gartner research VP, Glenn Archer.
The process for developing an IT strategy is well understood and is generally seen as an important, if not essential, activity for most organisations and government entities. In contrast, the how and why of developing a digital strategy for government is far less understood.
Read more: AU: How to create a simple digital government strategy
Telstra has launched its rapidly growing eHealth division into Asia, winning two key contracts worth tens of millions of dollars in Thailand and Malaysia.
Telstra Health is one of the company's key hopes for growing profits as the national broadband network erodes its earnings and rising mobile service competition from Optus and Vodafone Australia threaten to hurt revenue.
The latest deals signal a bold new push for the telco and forms a new plank of its strategy to extract billions of dollars from Asia's increasingly affluent middle class.
Read more: AU: Telstra bets on e-health to become billion dollar business
The intersection of technology and medicine is creating a more efficient and convenient world.
For decades futurists have been predicting giant leaps forward in the quality and speed of healthcare delivery through advances in technology.
If you look around in 2015, through advances such as telehealth, body parts created with 3D printers, medical service delivery in remote areas, and the use of big data to diagnose illnesses or forecast future demand for services, the age of virtual medicine is decidedly upon us.
Criminals getting in without Australia knowing about their convictions
Australia's Parliament has passed a law that will make it possible to collect biometric data, from citizens and visitors alike, at the nation's borders.
The Migration Amendment (Strengthening Biometrics Integrity) Bill 2015, an amendment to the Migration Act of 1958, is explained as an effort to “streamline seven existing personal identifier collection powers into a broad, discretionary power to collect one or more personal identifiers from non-citizens, and citizens at the border.”
Read more: Australia to capture biometrics at the border under new law