Digital Government
A Window to the Soul
In <em>Lie to Me</em>, the yet-to-be-a-hit <a href=http://www.fox.com/lietome/>TV series on Fox</a>, Dr. Cal Lightman (played by Tim Roth) uses his insight into the human condition to determine if a person is lying - and then solving crime based on his observational skills. Lightman typically peers into a subject's eyes, looking for twitching and shifting pupils. Now, a computer program can do that.
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HHS Sustains Paper Cuts
The federal government this week acknowledged critics who accused it of overzealously pushing to replace paper medical files with electronic medical records.
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Learning about America on the Boston-New York bus
A low-cost bus ride on the East Coast provides blogger Steve Kelman with a unique view of the country.
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Deja vu: Obama taps former OMB director for second stint
Jacob Lew was nominated today by the president to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Lew was budget director from 1998 to 2001, under President Bill Clinton.
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Survey Shows Telework Improvements
Survey results released Monday give the first complete look at the number of federal employees participating in agency telework programs.
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Forward march: Army e-mail overhaul still a go
Army CIO Jeffrey Sorenson is working with the Defense Information Systems Agency to get enterprise e-mail off the ground.
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‘Expensive’ older feds provide valuable mentoring resource
One of the recent posters to this blog, “Civil Servant,” makes a good point about the hard-to-measure value to new feds of those “expensive legacy employees”—long-time feds who really know the ropes.
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VA ends financial management modernization project
Department will concentrate on smaller initiatives that have better odds of success and will make a difference.
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U.S., Canada launch border initiatives
Countries have agreed to complete a joint threat and risk assessment.
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HHS issues final rule on meaningful use for e-health records
Up to $27 billion will be available during 10 years for the incentive payments, allowing health professionals to obtain as much as $44,000 under Medicare and $64,700 under Medicaid, while hospitals could receive millions of dollars to help with the implementation and use of certified electronic health professionals.
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