StorageTek and Innovation Data Processing have integrated their ExHPDM and FDR software, to cut disk-to-tape backup time by up to 50 per cent.

Meridian Data, has released a CD-ROM network server that allows up to 30 CDs to be cached on a single hard disk.

Hewlett-Packard has released a new line of CD drives and software bundles that are suited to a wide range of applications.

The latest move in healthcare is to apply contemporary information management techniques for not only patient records, but also patient care.

The Collaborative Health Informatics Centre (CHIC) is a national not-for-profit organisation whose focus is to improve patient care and business processes in the health sector through the application of appropriate information technologies.

The 1999 Health Informatics Conference aims to bring together vendors and health professionals to share insights about the special information requirements of the health sector.

As well as the needs of the doctor, HIC 99 is taking the opportunity to explore the relationship between information management and specific groups of the healthcare profession.

IDM interviews Professor of Health Informatics at the University College London, David Ingram, who has devoted his career to developing information management strategies for the health sector.

The Queensland Government has signed a $20 million contract with global technology firm Agfa-Geveart Limited to install state of the art radiology imaging and communications technology in Brisbane tertiary hospitals over the next three years.

With the support of a wireless network, Warrigal Private Hospital, Victoria, is delivering efficient, accurate, and timely care direct to the bedside.