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No Bonuses for Field Docs
As far as I can determine the reason the taxpayers - that's you and I - have to fund $165 million in bonuses for employees of AIG Financial Products is they came up with the ideas a few years back to create trillions of dollars worth of arcane and cockamamie financial products known as credit default swaps.
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Coburn questions OMB's delays on data
USASpending.gov doesn't include subcontract and subgrant data, although 2006 legislation required the data to be available online by Jan. 1, senator says.
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D.C. mayor orders audit of office of chief technology officer
The Washington Post
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'AHLTA is Intolerable'
That's the title of the <a href=http://www.house.gov/hasc/calendar_next_week.shtml>hearing</a> that the House Armed Service Committee's subcommittee on Joint Military Personnel and Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities plans to hold on March 24. It will be on the Defense Department's AHLTA (<a href= http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/02/oh_ahlta_is_a_proper_noun.php>remember, not an acronym</a>) electronic health record system.
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Casscells Plans to Leave In April
I've learned that Casscells, who <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080718_9200.php>told me a year ago</a> that Military Health System clinicians found AHLTA "intolerable" plans to end his tour as the Defense "Top Doc" at the end of April.
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Stimulus funds for IT require new procurement strategy
Agencies and vendors should focus on objectives, cost savings and benchmarks of success in critical programs, research group says.
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