Victorian councils mobilise rate payment services
Some 38 per cent of Victorian local councils are enabling Web-based an mobile access to services for ratepayers over the next 12 months with 75 per cent reviewing their mobile strategies.
Some 38 per cent of Victorian local councils are enabling Web-based an mobile access to services for ratepayers over the next 12 months with 75 per cent reviewing their mobile strategies.
The Victorian government has entered into a contract to provide private cloud computing services across government agencies and has pledged to create 100 new jobs as part of the project.
Melbourne-based medical research organisation BioGrid Australia has developed an e-health application which promises to break down information siloes between institutions by offering it as an integrated service.
Victoria's whole-of-health ICT strategy, HealthSMART, has grown from eight to 1000 servers in four years as it gears up to provide application services to some 140,000 end-users across the state, including the occasional iPad-wielding clinician.
The Victorian state government has become "gun shy" on big IT projects, prompting questions about whether overall IT spending is set to decline, according to an analyst firm.
Geelong Hospital in Victoria has launched the state’s first video relay interpreting (VRI) service aimed at providing hearing impaired people better access to interpreter services, particularly with health care.
ASX-listed IT services provider Empired Limited (ASX:EPD) has scored a $3 million contract with the Victorian State Government’s Department for Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD).