Private health insurer, Medibank Private, has chosen Bloomberg’s foreign exchange (FX) trading platform to manage the exchange rate risk associated with its $2.5 billion global equity portfolio.

Australian managers strongly judge the harmonisation of Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation will be a positive impact to their organisation’s overall operational sustainability when the legislation comes into force at the beginning of next year.

The scientist who developed the bionic ear, Professor Graeme Clark, has joined Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, to lead a project aimed at developing technologies capable of providing new types of hearing implants that can improve various aspects of auditory perception for hearing loss patients.

BrainyApp, a new Australian iOS app, promotes a healthy lifestyle with the aim of staving off Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

The University of Melbourne is part of a project to demonstrate the use of IP TV to deliver professional and further education content around the state.

IBM today formally opened IBM Research and Development - Australia in Melbourne today. The laboratory is part of IBM's 'smarter planet' initiative, and iTWire spoke to one of the researchers.

A new iOS app delivers health and medical information from the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel.

Regional health service Barwon Health is deploying LRS Health's MediBILL electronic billing system.

With the legal action out of the way, CSC has closed its acquisition of Australia-based healthcare IT developer iSOFT.

Technology provider CSC has won a $6.3 million contract to roll out a patient administration system for the Western Australia Department of Health.