Government & Public Sector

The Ontario government will champion the use of interactive, Web-based information technology to make healthcare services more pervasive and accessible. These technologies will be an integral part of the soon-to-be-launched Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), according to George Smitherman, provincial minister of health and long-term care.

Healthcare IT has the potential to radically transform physician productivity and patient care across Canada…but only if backed by more government dollars. ...

One of the central themes in U.S. Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign is ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. But the IT community is split on whether Kerry's plan would actually keep jobs in the U.S.

In a recent survey by chip and PIN, an initiative in the U.K. to get smart chips on credit and debit cards, most respondents said they are comfortable about remembering their personal identification number (PIN), and less than four per cent said they felt they have terrible memories. But that didn

A proposed technology for identifying the source of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) established to study the proposal sent it back for more work.

Across the public sector, e-government initiatives are calling for an unprecedented level of cohesion between diverse IT systems. Integration middleware makes the task easier, but the kind of interoperability that would make government truly transparent has been elusive. Public sector organizations are finding that the real battle is in finding common ground between stakeholders and establishing standards for shared entities.

Iranians have paid the equivalent of US$600 each to preregister for mobile phone services as the Mobile Communication Company of Iran (MCCI) gears up for an aggressive expansion of its network.

Public sector IT and Web content managers in Australia have been dragged into a war of words over blurry guidelines governing the use of the Internet and e-mail as election campaign tools.