Digital Government
Coast Guard awards contract for electronic health record system
Service says it must move away from its current Defense Department medical network because it lacks interoperability.
Digital Government
AmeriCorps Security Breach
The government has mailed out letters to AmeriCorps participants and applicants informing them that personal information may have been breached due to flaws in the program's website, federal officials announced on Friday. The security weaknesses date back to 2006, they said.
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State Uses IT to Aid Mental Health
New York has awarded $8.7 million for a project that will leverage information technology to improve mental health care in the state's Hudson Valley.
Digital Government
What's So Wrong with MUMPS?
I'm not talking about the disease -- although some folks treat it as such - but the software that is the heart of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, the electronic health record system at the Veterans Affairs Department.
Digital Government
Best Selling CIO Books
Here are the top 10 books for CIOs on Amazon.com as of Sept. 30.
Digital Government
Federal employment—a family business?
In the old days, careers often ran in families. If your father and grandfather were blacksmiths, well, there was a good chance you’d be one, too. Fewer of those multigenerational career tracks are out there today.
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GAO: Federal background checks can be risky business
Investigators could allow personal information to slip through the cracks, audit finds.
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Federal Pension Insights
Government Executive's Editor-in-Chief Tom Shoop helped bring some facts to the debate over the generosity and funding of government employee pension plans when he appeared on the Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio on Thursday.
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Dick Tracy Inspired
The Army continues to push into the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers>Buck Rogers</a> Age.
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E-Health and Privacy
With the push for e-health records, "not everyone is taking the proper steps to de-personalize the data and protect patients."
Digital Government
How technology can reinvigorate the education system
President Barack Obama set a goal of making the United States first in the world in post-secondary academic degrees by 2020, and Jim Shelton says technology is what will get us there.
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The Disney Store approach to cutting the federal deficit
A retail business based on agency logo merchandise could make a modest dent in the federal deficit, writes Steve Kelman.
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Takai may yet become DOD CIO
Former deputy Defense CIO Dave Wennergren said that California CIO Teri Takai is very much still in the running for the job.
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State Department likes green IT, but not yet sure how much
Difficulties arise as department moves toward green information technology practices.
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