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Can Defense really defeat PowerPoint?

Federal Computer Week

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AHLTA and Drug Abuse

In <a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/health/25warrior.html>scathing article</a> on problems at the Army's Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Carson, Colo., the New York Times reported on April 24 that some clinicians at the post hand out so many prescription pain killers that troops in the unit have become addicted to narcotics.

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Incentives for IT Workers

Federal agencies must beef up incentive payment programs in order to recruit and retain future federal information technology workers, according to a new report by the Federal Chief Information Officers Council.

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Agencies may not like Facebook’s new ‘like’ feature

Recent changes to Facebook that have caused controversy on Capitol Hill could also pose new concerns for agencies, according to one expert.

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SBA flunks data collection on serving limited-English people, GAO says

Of several agencies, the Small Business Administration performed the worst on measures for ensuring access to services for people with limited English, according to a GAO report.

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Can DOD really defeat PowerPoint?

Defense Department leaders have declared war on PowerPoint presentations, saying they dumb down complex scenarios and give the false illusion of control. But is there any escape from bad slideshows?

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Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits, A Dollar

To be or not to be a meaningful user of electronic health records? That is the question that has many doctors scratching their heads, says David Blumenthal, whose job as national coordinator for health information technology includes changing physicians' uncertainty into enthusiasm.

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Sankaran to leave HHS' Federal Health Architecture

Vish Sankaran, program director for the Federal Health Architecture system, announced his resignation today.

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Satisfaction with Gov Web sites remains strong

The Obama administration's Open Government Initiative spurs increase in satisfaction, ForeSee Report says.

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University of Maryland honors faculty members elected to National Academies

The University of Maryland held a reception for faculty members who recently were elected to the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

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GSA launches a short-URL service people just might trust

Go.USA.gov lets registered federal employees convert long government Web-page addresses into short URLs that can fit into a Twitter-size message.

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VA official says patient-controlled health records guard privacy better

But few Americans have created the medical files, making individually managed records the centerpiece of a national network problematic, a privacy group counters.

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Army releases plan to rebalance and adapt Future Combat Systems programs

Plan describes how the service will rebalance units and adapt Future Combat Systems programs.

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Foreign contractors could face prosecution in U.S. courts

Senate committee approves bill that would subject overseas firms to civil and criminal proceedings in the United States.

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House panel starts work on bill aiming to develop science agencies, innovation

The bill would reauthorize the 2007 America COMPETES Act for five years and would authorize about $82 billion in funding for the bill's programs.