Digital Government
Hundreds of vets participate in test of sharing electronic health records
The Veterans Affairs Department and Kaiser Permanente will exchange electronic patient files to test if they can improve care and lower costs by reducing redundant lab procedures.
Cybersecurity
For Tom Talleur, cybersecurity is a bad situation about to get worse
Former NASA and Defense forensic technologist says agencies are wide open to cyberattack, and it will only get worse as other advanced technologies begin to become more ubiquitous.
Digital Government
Congress directs Defense and VA to consider common health IT systems
Departments are to give lawmakers a report in early January, listing the systems that could be combined and outlining a plan for joining forces.
Cybersecurity
Technology a winner in conferees' consolidated spending bill
Committee gives millions of dollars more to IT programs, including cybersecurity, for fiscal 2010.
Cybersecurity
Former officials: White House cyber coordinator should have budget authority
The current decentralized budget process hinders the administration's ability to develop and implement a governmentwide cyber strategy.
Cybersecurity
DHS completes draft of plan on how to respond to a national cyberattack
The final strategy outlining public and private roles and responsibilities will be completed after public comment and then will be put to the test in September 2010.
Cybersecurity
Conflicting information security standards slow acquisitions
Agencies have similar baseline requirements but add custom specifications, making it difficult for vendors to build widely accepted products.
Digital Government
HHS to award $220M in grants to support national health IT network
Communities that receive funds should leverage existing federal electronic programs such as the Defense and Veterans Affairs virtual lifetime health record.
Digital Government
VA, Kaiser testing the exchange of electronic health records
Veterans in the San Diego area who receive medical care will be invited to participate in pilot to test the fledging Nationwide Health Information Network.
Modernization
Could mobile technology have stopped state dinner security breach?
Some IT specialists say better communications among security forces could foil attempts to sneak into White House events, but others say nothing will fix human error.
Digital Government
Military Health to evaluate two electronic dental records systems
Agency will spend six months reviewing applications developed by a Northrop Grumman-SAIC team and Harris.
Digital Government
Joint Telemedicine Network eyed for mental health services
Expanding the network would allow Army behavioral health specialists working at large hospitals in Iraq to provide counseling to patients at smaller field hospitals.
Cybersecurity
University unites industry, gov to tighten energy sector cybersecurity
Professors hope program overcomes what they see as a lack of cooperation among government and businesses to develop policies to protect and respond to a cyberattack on power companies.
Digital Government
New military satellite system expedites X-rays arrival at hospitals
Army overcame small budget, failing satellite to develop a system that speeds medical images to hospitals to treat wounded soldiers and save lives.
Modernization
Top tech trends pose the biggest security risks, say federal IT leaders
Seventy-nine percent of senior IT executives believe growth in collaboration software applications has increased the likelihood of data breaches.
Modernization
Electronic health records could be a deadly target during a cyberwar
Adversaries could hack into systems to change patient data as a way to create fear in the U.S. population during wartime, a technology manager tells an Health and Human Services panel.
Cybersecurity