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GUEST OPINION:  There are not many countries which don’t have long hospital waiting lists. Australia is no different.

It's surprising that global cyber security firm Sophos has hidden from public view the fact that it has suffered a security breach which is said to have taken place during the week.

Nvidia's GTC conference may be virtual this year, but that hasn't stopped the company making several real announcements.

GPU manufacturer Nvidia is offering an approach to training healthcare machine learning models using data from multiple sources while maintaining patient privacy.

If Australian health data brokers are looking for a buyer with plenty of money, then they need look no further than the world's biggest search engine.

The data of 150,000 patients, who had told their GPs that they did not wish to share it, was shared because the patients' objections were not sent to Britain's National Health Service due to errors in third-party software supplied by a company known as TPP.

A security consultant based in the UK has discovered cryptocurrency mining scripts embedded on thousands of websites, including many belonging to the UK, US and Australian governments.

Britain's National Health Service appears to have used a project set up to create a Linux alternative for its employees' smartcards — and later, hopefully, a desktop alternative to Windows — to bargain with Microsoft and obtain an enterprise-wide desktop deal.

Some of Microsoft’s customers have been charged $1000 per year per device for XP patches, with charges escalating so much the NHS abandoned support after just one year.

Security companies around the world were falling over themselves during the last few days in order to try and eke some publicity out of the WannaCry Windows ransomware episode. While some managed to get a bit of the spotlight, one company that took a beating was Sophos.

Thoughtified Limited, a SETsquared start-up company created by graduates of the Department of Computing, University of Surrey has won a major grant from the Technology Strategy Board.

Health IT company iSoft has acquired Belgium-based UltraGenda for its resource scheduling software.