When presented with a digitally signed document, most will probably just accept it at face value. The more technically minded will validate the signature, which confirms that the signature is unaltered, and that is signed by a Certificate which we trust. This means that the Certificate is signed by another Certificate, and so on up the chain until we reach a trusted root – a self-signed Certificate which we consider trusted and have in our KeyStore.
In 2015, there was only one digital hospital in Australia and New Zealand. In comparison, the United States had 1,414. The health sector in Australia isn’t just lagging that in the US, it is also lagging other sectors within Australia. It is many years behind sectors such as financial services in engagement, interactivity and access, and in urgent need of transformation and digitisation, according to a new report from PwC Australia. The report proposes that Australia adopt the US ‘Meaningful Use’ Program, which whilst having had its challenges, has achieved good results in adoption and improved information at the point of care.
Mercy Mental Health service in Victoria has signed a three year deal with software vendor Global Health to deploy its MasterCare electronic medical record (EMR) system along with the ReferralNet secure messaging platform and the ReferralNet e-switch enterprise integration broker.
Don’t you hate it when you want to upgrade your core EDRMS system to the latest version, but there is a component within the technology stack that is holding you back? Your organisation can be blocked from embracing new features and functions that can lift productivity and in some cases hold back the delivery of new services. Overtime these blockers can start to cost real $$ and in some cases impact upon team morale.
By tapping the power of the Internet of Things and business intelligence, South Australia’s leading convenience retailer, Peregrine Corporation, plans to enhance their customers’ experience and mitigate everyday business risks.
When organisations want to buy an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS), they often believe it will solve their records management problems. They find they have lots of paper. They have lots of electronic documents. They have shared drives that are full and disorganised.
Traditional enterprise content management providers are struggling to deal with the demands of today’s information workers. If data is the new oil, then the current approach to ECM has only managed to scratch the surface of what people need.
Australia is lagging the US in its approach to information governance, placing enterprises and individuals at risk according to Susan Bennett, co-founder of Information Governance ANZ, a new think tank that aims to lift the profile of information governance and spur enterprises into action.
We have moved from an era in IT where the relational database management system was the one-size-fits-all technology, where data being used for informational purposes was solely sourced from in-house corporate databases that were rigorously defined, structured and well within the span of control of IT.
Organsations habitually over-retain information, especially unstructured electronic information, for many reasons. However, many organisations simply have not addressed what to do with this data so fall back on relying on individual employees to decide what should be kept and for how long and what should be disposed of.
