[LINK] Oz: 'Hi-tech efficiency key to future service delivery'

[Marghanita da Cruz]

All I can say is in the brave new world, I hope the midwives
visit mothers to be and the community nurses continue to check
on the new mothers! The second parent seems to have
disappeared, so, I hope the older child is safe with the
Net Nanny.

And..it would seem that one stop government portals may have
had their day...
> The best ideas are those that make you say ?I can?t believe we don?t already have this.?
> 
> Today, I am happy to report a historic collaboration between industry, the health community and government to bring you something you can?t believe we don?t already have: a free (yes, free) mobile health service for pregnant women and new mothers giving them useful tips timed to their pregnancy or age of baby. 
> 
> The service is called text4baby, and it is an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/04/new-mothers-get-digital-helper-right-their-phones>

Also from 1998: Cloud Computing anyone?
> The timeshared systems of the seventies provided access 
> to expensive resources for compute intensive applications.
> Internet based systems have the potential to integrate
> business systems across enterprises.
<http://ramin.com.au/marg/services.html>


Marghanita
Roger Clarke wrote:
> [A report came out yesterday:
> 
> [AGRAGA (2010)  'Ahead of the Game: Blueprint for Reform of 
> Australian Government Administration'  Advisory Group on Reform of 
> Australian Government Administration, Canberra, 29 March 2010, at 
> http://www.dpmc.gov.au/publications/aga_reform/aga_reform_blueprint/index.cfm
> 
<snip>
> [Declaration 2:  Based on an amount of consultancy work in the area, 
> conducted with colleagues, I published this:
> 
>     Electronic Services Delivery: From Brochure-Ware to Entry Points
>     http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/ESD.html
> 
> [That was written in late 1998, i.e. over 11 years ago.
> 
> [Could it be that the last 15 years of promise has been undermined by 
> the arrogance of public servants, who have wanted to foist their 
> conception of how the world should work onto a public that is not 
> enthusiastic about being treated as cogs in the public service wheel?
> 
<snip>
> 
> A local community midwife starts visiting Lyn every three days. Lyn's 
> general practitioner opens an electronic health record for Jai. GSA 
> had already started Lyn's maternity leave payments when she was 38 
> weeks pregnant; now family payments also begin.
> 
> In the weeks after Jai's birth, Lyn gets a text message telling her 
> where to get the infant immunised. She is offered advice for new 
> parents, is linked by video to a local mothers' group and told about 
> childcare facilities in her area. She is emailed Jai's birth 
> certificate.
<snip>

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Marghanita da Cruz
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