Enterprise Applications

Off and racing with SharePoint for Melbourne Cup 2015

The office sweep gets a modern makeover with a free app available to install from the Microsoft SharePoint Store and contributed by Sydney solutions’ provider SharePoint Gurus.

CMIO pushes frontiers of digital health

The role of chief medical information officer (CMIO) s is a relatively new job in the healthcare industry, although one that is becoming increasingly important since the acceleration of government efforts to establish a national record-keeping system for health records. To understand where the role fits in the eHealth landscape, IDM spoke with Dr Ronnie Ptasznik, appointed  CMIO at Victoria's Monash Health in 2015. in addition to his duties as CMIO and an Associate Professor at Monash University, Dr Ptasznik maintains a senior clinical role as Deputy Director of Monash Health Diagnostic Imaging over its five campuses.

The role Big Data, Ontology and Semantic Search will play to improve Healthcare

Is there any domain that has a broader mix of terminologies that need to be comprehended, or a greater need for system integration? Over the years doctors developed their own specialised languages and lexicons to help them store and communicate general medical knowledge and patient-related information efficiently. The promise of a global standard for Electronic Health Care Records is still years away.

Medical coding app comes to Android

Eurofield Information Solutions (EIS) has announced the release of its TurboCoder ICD-10- CM Android app, which is able to be used offline and includes the complete ICD-10-CM classification to enable health professionals to easily find codes in the NEW ICD-10-CM Code Set.

IBM expands power of Watson Analytics

IBM has introduced new data discovery and question-and-answer capabilities for Watson Analytics that promises to make it easier for users to extract insights from their data. IBM also announced widespread adoption, with half a million professionals registering for the Watson data exploration and visualization service since its introduction less than a year ago.

Zombie financials threaten Victoria

The Victorian Auditor-General has found that state agencies are under increasing risk from using IT systems that are past or approaching their end-of-life.

TechnologyOne acquires Asset Management provider

TechnologyOne has entered into an agreement to acquire Jeff Roorda and Associates (JRA) for approximately $A10 million.

Lexmark unveils Customer Communications Manager 4

Lexmark International has launched Kofax Customer Communications Manager 4, to provide a way for organizations to better engage with customers, citizens, partners and other stakeholders across multiple channels to better meet their preferences.

Turnbull's 'agile' government borrows from his IT past

Malcolm Turnbull has had many high-profile careers, including as a barrister, merchant banker and aspiring media proprietor. By far his most lucrative, however, was in the IT industry.

Why JSON is better than XML

The world’s digital infrastructure is currently characterized by a plethora of data interchange formats. It’s not the least bit surprising that such a multiplicity undergirds things at the moment. The internet is scarcely a generation old, while the “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” more closely resemble regulative ideals than realities. But I nonetheless believe that there are strong, discernible historical tendencies currently at work in this field, tendencies that strongly favour JSON over others.

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