Back in 2016 the Australian Department of Health decided to combine the state and federal Bowel Cancer Screening registers into one register and tendered the contract for the project to Telstra. Telstra is Australia's oldest telecommunications company and lacked experience with managing public health systems. After signing the $220 million contract to build a new cancer register, Telstra promptly purchased companies with experience building health systems. After being chided by the AONO (Australian National Audit Office) for not having a plan for data security, Telstra tried and failed to bring services online, delaying the rollout until late 2019.
Now Telstra has set a date for delivery of the expensive cancer register of November 2019, with caveats for some functionality not to be delivered until 2020. So far, Telstra has received only $18 million of the $220 million promised in the contract as the Health department withholds payments as milestones are missed.
How much would you charge to build a bowel cancer registry for approximately 25 million people?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:25PM (6 children)
Is this the main page or what?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:31PM (5 children)
You high, bro? Got bit by an Australian creature?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:43PM (1 child)
wait how do you get bit by a platypus. if anything one might get pinched or stung, but bit? that's like being attacked by angry ducks and having bite wounds, it just doesn't happen that way. you instead get assualted by angry quacking and rapid flapping!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @03:07AM
By competing with him for females.
platypus venom [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 23 2019, @09:08PM (2 children)
I got bit by an Australian creature once.
Her name was Debbie, and I quite enjoyed it. In fact I bought her a couple of schooners and she did it again.
Good times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @07:39AM
Schooners are good, but - after Debbie - antibiotics are better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @07:41AM
Really? Were you carving your initials in her perhaps?