Digital Government
VA sets the telehealth table
VA's quiet leadership in telehealth is about to gain a much broader audience as policy-makers look to the technology as a possible means of reducing costs and improving access to care.
Digital Government
Study raises questions about military's brain injury assessment tool
At issue is determining which technique works best for evaluating mild injuries that can lead to serious impairment down the road.
Digital Government
IRS mistakenly designates thousands of e-file providers as not-for-profits
Inspector general reports that by not verifying the status of groups, the Internal Revenue Service increased the risk for losses from unscrupulous businesses.
Digital Government
USAspending.gov makeover leaves room for improvement
New tools provide more flexibility, but accuracy and usability still not ideal, observers say.
Digital Government
Product safety commission to use crowd sourcing
A new website will allow researchers to download data sets about incidents involving hazardous products, with the aim of identifying patterns so that warnings can be issued more quickly.
Digital Government
History Detectives
The Library of Congress has been collecting public comments about unidentified photos in its collections. Here is a sample of what people have said about the images.
Digital Government
Competition, Washington Style
Defense Secretary Robert Gates continued on Thursday the high visibility campaign he started in a <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2010/05/gates_channels_ike_on_spending.php>speech earlier this month</a> to rein in military spending and argue for a more effective definition of competition in Defense contracts.
Digital Government
GSA splits Citizen Services, hires Interior's Bhagowalia
The General Services Administration created a new office to identify and apply new technologies to government operations and service delivery. To help with the effort, GSA has hired the Interior Department's chief information officer.
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Agencies Insourcing Tech Jobs
Federal agencies have largely been focusing on the potential for information technology-related work to be insourced back to federal employees, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee on Thursday.
Digital Government
Lawmakers call for improved counterterrorism IT
Members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee make recommendations for improvements to IT systems agencies use for counterterrorism.
Digital Government
People on the move, events in the news
Roger Baker, chief information officer at the Veterans Affairs Department, is drawing on Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 folk song “Alice’s Restaurant” for inspiration these days.
Digital Government
Controlling the Flow of IT Dough
Digitization of the country's healthcare data has released deep wells of previously untapped capital. The resulting gusher is spewing billions of dollars across government agencies, private companies and healthcare providers.
Digital Government
How bad is FCIP?
Many participants in the recent debate over how to make the federal hiring process easier and more efficient have taken aim at the Federal Career Internship Program.
Digital Government
Identity, data management crucial to cloud success
Identity and key management need to be addressed if cloud computing is going to achieve the cost savings and information technology operation efficiencies promised by proponents of the computing model, according to speakers from industry and government at a recent cloud conference.
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