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Probe Into 'virtual Wards'

Tuesday May 20, 2008
THE Victorian Government has launched an inquiry into allegations that public hospitals are creating "virtual wards" and altering computer data to receive performance bonuses.

Hospitals Creating Ghost Wards

Monday May 19, 2008
OVERCROWDED Victorian hospitals are altering computer data and admitting emergency patients to non-existent "virtual wards" to meet State Government targets for bonus payments.

Cows Help Sick Children

Tuesday March 6, 2007
Computer on wheels are giving nurses more time with small patients, writes Beverley Head.

Right On

Wednesday June 9, 1999
RUYTON Girls' School principal Ms Prue Gillies has sprung to the defence of the laptop computer, presently being blamed for everything from learning woes to strained ligaments. Ruyton's long-standing and successful laptop program has become an integral part of the curriculum and students' daily ro

Fingertip Living For Laptop-literate Jet-setter

Wednesday November 22, 1995
Christopher de Fraga finds plenty of buttons to push in a multi-million-dollar home. COMPUTER-controlled houses are still relatively rare, but the owners of the new Georgian-style house at 5 Towers Road, Toorak, will experience push-button living at state-of-the- art levels. Should they find

Hospitals' Emergency Sections To Get Computer Upgrade

Monday November 7, 1994
Case-mix funding could soon be extended to the accident and emergency sections of Victoria's hospitals after the State Government announced the introduction of a $1million computer system to collect data about emergency patients. The Minister for Health, Mrs Tehan, said yesterday that data collec

Giant Bazaar Planned For Site In South Melbourne

Monday August 16, 1993
LISA MITCHELL talks to the planners of an ambitious superstore. A MELBOURNE company is planning to open a variation on the computer superstore theme by launching a giant bazaar on 15 October in South Melbourne. The Computer Age story last week on Sydney retailer Harvey Norman's superstore plan

Look, No Paper, It's The Acrobat

Wednesday June 2, 1993
IT QUICKLY becomes apparent, when you visit the computer industry's biggest trade show, Comdex/Windows World in Atlanta, Georgia, that there are, as Atlanta people are wont to say, a ``vaast dah-versity" of computers and the things that make them work. One becomes acutely aware of this the

The World's Fastest Pc Star Of Dazzling Show

Sunday April 15, 1990
WALKING down San Francisco's Third Avenue on a brisk spring morning last week was rather like going to a football grand final. From everywhere came the fans ... out of the alleys and off the trolleys and cable cars and up from the Bay Area Rapid Transit trains, babbling with excitement

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