DNA is the blueprint, but what makes cells grow and divide? At the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, answering this question involves protein research which could one day turn invasive cancer detection procedures into simply blood test...
Imaging equipment is still running hot at the Flinders Medical Imaging department but radiology transcriptionists are running out of work. A voice recognition tool built into their medical imaging systems now allows radiologists to not only...
In an effort to improve the processing of membership forms, medical service provider invoices and hospital claims, HCF recently introduced Straight Through Processing to its back office operations. But besides driving efficiencies by digit...
2008 is shaping up to be an interesting year for scientific breakthrough and the University of Melbourne’s will be no stranger to the action. With supercomputing power on hand, the Melbourne Physics Department will assist in the Large Hadr...
VicSuper admits that most people find trawling through superannuation details a little dull and boring. But with a new web based strategy and a range of ‘net banking’ style tools on board, they’re planning to get people excited about money again.
The geospatial features from Fluster display stories as a virtual pin stuck into a map of Australia allowing users to zoom in and out and specify distances to find localized news.
Just like the stars above us, Whale Sharks have a unique constellation of patterns identifying each from the next. With the power of online social collaboration, passion for the species and a mathematical formula from NASA, marine scientis...
>Research into all aspects of health depends on data. While the data is often in abundance, a lack of access and synergy between differing data repositories and organisations can slow down the progress of healthcare, preventing the full po...
In Western Australia, the move to shared services centres is taking the finance, payroll and human resources functions of government departments and centralising their document management needs. However with the Auditor-General at their ba...
At first glance, the confrontation between fibre channel protocol and IP-based storage protocol iSCSI could be seen as just another turf war served up by the IT industry - Microsoft vs. Sun vs. open source, J2EE vs. .Net, Macintosh vs. per...
