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Ex-CMS chief: Resolve health IT privacy, security issues
Mark McClellan says the federal government should lead efforts to build trustworthiness into health IT systems and policies.
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Letter: Smart cards can also be RFID cards
Combining the technology into one is possible.
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Technology briefs
Adobe PDF bug jeopardizes securityThe Adobe PDF could be used to compromise a system running on Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe confirmed last week week. Remote code embedded in a PDF could be executed in Versions 8.1 and earlier of Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Elements. Adobe Acrobat 3D is also vulnerable. All those programs must be used in conjunction with Internet Explorer 7 to trigger the exploitation. According to the SANS Institute, which…
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Wagner: Why SOA matters
Service-oriented architecture might seem difficult, but it offers government a way out of the swamp
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FISMA forces business leaders to pay attention
A cyberattack on the State Department in 2006 highlights the impact of the five-year-old law.
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Letter: Last-minute spending not new but a fix would be
A reader wants to know what solutions could help the problem.
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Letter: Better communication needed on grants issue
Reauthorization of the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 would at least make the federal government continue some communication.
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Last issue's news Print and online news archive Picture this: Community.gov FEATURES 4 executive organizers Three small-agency CIOs discuss strategies for managing personal e-mail and BlackBerry use, PowerPoint presentations, and brainstormingIs the Defense Travel System finally ready to fly? Expanding the system to accommodate trips for purposes other than temporary-duty travel is a Defense Department priority NEWS …
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Buzz of the week | The space economy
Fifty years ago, the government made an important step — one might say one large step — for humanity. It created NASA.
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Davis proposes a new role for inspectors general
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) offered an amendment that would empower inspectors general to expose redundant programs and report to Congress with legislative proposals on how to end the programs.
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VistA outage disrupts Calif. VA hospitals
One official called it "the most significant technological threat to patient safety VA has ever had."
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CMS awards more Medicaid Transformation Grants
Sixteen states and Puerto Rico get funds to modernize the delivery and administration of Medicaid health services.
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Judge: NASA workers must submit to background checks
The 28 workers are supposed to turn in initial paperwork by today.
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Letter: Stop exacerbating health care problems
The government has socialized the U.S. health care system enough already, a reader writes.
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