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Alphabet features self-driving garbage cans, apartment noise monitors in Toronto smart city project
NBN Co is skipping "thousands" of premises a month
New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020
Negative interest rates threaten to choke bank IT systems
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medicare
Privacy fears over proposed Medicare data matching scheme
Laws don't go far enough.
Nov 11 2019 1:35PM
Medicare Easyclaim payments put back to market
Government tells banks to recoup costs from doctors.
Oct 23 2019 1:34PM
Govt proposes Medicare data matching scheme for fraud crackdown
Could source data from private health insurers.
Sep 24 2019 11:21AM
Centrelink matches Medicare data in 'identity fraud' crackdown
Updated: Agency says data-matching already running.
Jul 29 2019 10:07AM
Centrelink wants new software to learn why it annoys customers
System to collect, track feedback.
Mar 11 2019 12:30PM
Lessons from government's biggest tech turkeys of 2018
And what's on the block for 2019.
Jan 17 2019 7:09AM
Human Services inks $480m IBM hardware contract
Extends mainframe support until 2023.
Aug 9 2018 12:00PM
Medicare payments overhaul procurement dumped
Bespoke platform shelved.
Aug 3 2018 7:00AM
Mainframe sales double in latest IBM profit
Rusted onto big iron.
Jul 19 2018 11:59AM
$60bn primary health sector "extremely data-poor": UNSW
Big data drills into Medicare.
Jul 16 2018 6:55AM
IBM inks $1bn whole of government deal
$300 million in existing deals covered.
Jul 5 2018 7:27AM
Medicare payments system gets $107m cash splash
Budget 2018: Plus upgrades to e-prescribing software.
May 8 2018 7:40PM
Govt to ditch PKI certs for Medicare look-up system
DHS to accelerate move to PRODA.
Feb 16 2018 1:11PM
Medicare payments system outages surge over the last year
Potential security risks increase.
Dec 20 2017 6:40AM
Medicare payments system given $17m to keep the lights on
MYEFO: Govt tries to breathe new life into 30-year-old system.
Dec 18 2017 2:12PM
Health open data bungle meant Aussies could be identified
Privacy commissioner investigating.
Dec 18 2017 12:00PM
Ditch PKI certs in Medicare look-up system: review
But keep using cards as ID.
Oct 16 2017 5:57PM
DHS reissues 165 Medicare numbers after dark web scare
Says it can narrow down entry point of hacker access.
Sep 15 2017 4:23PM
Tech suppliers clamber for Medicare payments deal
But way forward unclear.
Jul 26 2017 9:41AM
Medicare access to be reviewed after breach discovery
System hasn't been changed in eight years.
Jul 10 2017 9:26AM
