The move towards activity-based funding as part of national health reform in Australia will put a spotlight on data quality, as hospitals receive funding based on the number and type of cases they treat. A similar regime is also on the horizon in Canada, where the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is charged with ensuring the quality of health care data. We asked CIHI Consultant Heather Richards, to highlight the data quality issues to be faced.
Basware has announced a partnership agreement with Ricoh New Zealand to deliver electronic invoicing and procurement solutions to enterprises and small-to-medium sized businesses in New Zealand.
Data warehousing giant Teradata is moving to bolster its capabilities for dealing with structured and unstructured data by acquiring analytics specialist Aster Data Systems.
AvePoint has announced that Perth Microsoft solutions specialist DSC-IT has become a value-added reseller, and both companies will work together in Western Australia.
Australia’s Public Record Office Victoria has certified the Laserfiche enterprise content management (ECM) platform against all five specifications of the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) Standard.
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) veteran Dave McGrouther is joining Australia’s DAMsmart, the audiovisual digitisation agency, to head up their Film Services Division.
ACOM has launched the EZCM Outlook Plug-in, an Outlook add-on that automatically indexes and stores email messages and attachments in their native formats.
Equivio has selected ISYS Document Filters from ISYS Search Software to provide text extraction capabilities for its suite of data redundancy solutions.
