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FDA Approves First 3-D Printed Drug
Pharmaceutical company Aprecia says 3-D printing will allow doctors to know the medicine they’re prescribing delivers the exact dose intended.
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Are we seriously talking about shutdowns again?
September 30 is much closer than it seems, and even a continuing resolution could run into snags.
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US Officials Warn That Medical Devices Are Vulnerable to Hackers
This new vulnerability could enable hackers to change the dosage of critical medicines.
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Census Plans 2016 Test Run to Experiment with New Tech Tools
Census is rolling out a handful of new options in 2020 designed to upgrade the decennial headcount for the digital age.
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In health apps, the game's the thing
Device-agnostic, gamified health apps will drive a new era of self-managed health care. If it isn't fun and well designed, it might not be worth pushing out at all.
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Obama Says Customer Experience is a Big Deal. Is it?
In recent years, the White House has prioritized customer experience as a pillar for government success.
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DOD Official to Industry: We Need Fitness Tracking Software, Not New Devices
Better tracking software could help military patients recover from injuries, Col. Deydre Teyhen said.
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Trade Group Collecting Tips on Federal Cybersecurity for White House
ACT-IAC plans to take its recommendations to the White House, the CIO and the Federal CIO Council.
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Consumers Rant to FCC about Net Neutrality
Thousands have filed complaints against Comcast, AT&T and other Internet service providers.
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There's Now an X-Ray Pill You Can Swallow
This new development could make important medical procedures like colonoscopies a little less invasive.
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UPDATED: Leidos Wins Massive Pentagon Health Care Records Contract
The Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract’s base value is $4.3 billion over 10 years, with an expected 18-year lifecycle value of $9 billion.
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White House Nixes Edward Snowden Pardon Request
“Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it.”
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Data Act implementation hung up on definitions
Words, rather than numbers, are proving key to bringing all federal agencies together in the push for financial transparency.
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Will Digital Service Funding Survive Congressional Penny Pinching?
The Senate appropriations committee last week approved an annual spending measure that would grant USDS just one-third of the new funding President Barack Obama requested to scale up the team.
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DOD awards massive health records contract
Leidos, Accenture and Cerner pull off an unexpected win of the multi-billion-dollar Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract, beating out the presumptive health-records leader.
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White House Grievance Portal Gets Upgraded
The White House will now aim to respond within 60 days.
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HHS On the Lookout for a Deputy CIO
The deputy CIO will help coordinate the department's cloud strategy, among other responsibilities.
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Linking laws through open data
Open data holds the promise of connecting legislation in new ways, bringing federal, state and local laws together and automating compliance. But teaching machines to read law –- or lawmakers to read machines -- is no simple task.
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NSA to Purge Database of Phone Records Collected Under Mass Surveillance
“As soon as possible, NSA will destroy the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata upon expiration of its litigation preservation obligations.”
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