Government & Public Sector

A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms. Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu.

A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms. nMoments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu.

The Indian state of Kerala has decided to promote free and open-source software in education, although it will not make it compulsory, a minister in Kerala's communist government said Wednesday.

Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) enables health professionals to better track the development of potential disease outbreaks. Among other things, iPHIS provides a central database from where Ontario health organizations can enter, access and manage information on communicable diseases.

Less than five percent of Australian enterprises bother to claim VAT (value-added tax) refunds after travelling to Europe each year. In an industry as well-travelled as IT, this amounts to millions of dollars lost each year simply because IT professionals do not bother to recoup their money.n

Non-profit environmental organization Greenpeace has rated mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. highly for its eco-friendly policies, but gave low marks to Lenovo Group Ltd., Motorola Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., among others.

Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) staff is set to have full access to critical hospital information systems anytime, anywhere.

Days after Philadelphia's CIO announced plans to resign her post to take a job with a company that has done business with the city, Mayor John Street asked the board of ethics to determine whether the move violates city statutes.