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Hurricane victims get more time to file tax claims
Victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma will have an extra six months to decide whether to claim disaster-related losses on their federal income tax returns.
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Web extra: Two thin-client tales — one bad, one good
Virginia county struggles with deployment issues; Arizona health care provider reaps benefits.
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Flyzik: Give RFID a chance
Despite some groups’ concerns, the tracking technology is safe enough for government use
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Marchibroda: Don’t prevent the future — build it
IT can help minimize a pandemic’s impact by providing critical infrastructure, support and efficiency at every step.
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Editor's letter: Pretty good health privacy?
The sanctity of personal information is being tested like never before
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Can you be too thin?
Thin clients aren't for everyone, but if you decide to make the leap, here are some issues to consider
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Comings and goings
Kay Coles James, former director of the Office of Personnel Management, has joined the J.C. Watts Companies as a senior partner; Ken Buck, former director of share-in-savings contracting at GSA has moved to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Web extra: Winners and losers in the budget proposal
President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget proposal contained substantial increases and cuts in spending on information technology.
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AHRQ launches health care IT resource center
The Web site includes a library with links to 5,000 health care IT-related documents and a health care IT evaluation toolkit.
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Home is where health IT is
Aging baby boomers are sparking a revolution in long-term care
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Web extra: How the jobs stack up
Here is a brief look at the pluses and minuses of being a federal information technology contractor compared with those of being a federal IT employee.
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The dawn of the electronic medication era
SureScripts' nationwide service will give physicians access to all e-medication records, no matter which drugstore store fills a prescription.
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Gartner analyst moves to Input
Paul Schmitz will serve as vice president of the Input Executive Program.
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Feds to conduct first cybercrime survey
The Justice and Homeland Security departments will conduct a comprehensive survey beginning this month to create the first national baseline to measure cybercrime on businesses
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NASA to archive airlines' flight safety data
Battelle Memorial Institute will develop the distributed archive of airline flight data and safety reports.
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