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posted by martyb on Thursday May 23 2019, @04:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the Same-thing-at-ten-times-the-price dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:25PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:25PM (#846715)

    Is this the main page or what?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:31PM (5 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:31PM (#846721) Journal

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:43PM (#846723)

      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 Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @03:07AM (#846921)

        wait how do you get bit by a platypus.

        By competing with him for females.

        platypus venom [wikipedia.org]

        The platypus is one of the few living mammals to produce venom. Males have a pair of spurs on their hind limbs that secrete venom that is active only in breeding season...

        The different chemicals in the venom have a range of effects from lowering blood pressure to causing pain and increasing blood flow around the wound.[4] Coagulating effects have been seen during experiments on laboratory animals, but this has not been observed consistently. Unlike snake venom, there appears to be no necrotising component in the Platypus' venom – although some muscle wastage has been observed in cases of envenomation in humans, it is likely that this is due to the inability to use the limb while the effects of the venom persist.[5] It is unknown whether the pain caused is a result of the associated edema around the wound or whether the venom has a component that acts directly on the pain receptors.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 23 2019, @09:08PM (2 children)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday May 23 2019, @09:08PM (#846797)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @07:39AM (#846973)

        Schooners are good, but - after Debbie - antibiotics are better.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @07:41AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @07:41AM (#846974)

        Really? Were you carving your initials in her perhaps?