Digital Government
Google Instant on Kundra, Kushi, KOAT
Google's new instant search feature promises results instantaneously with every letter typed into the search bar. But I find it more annoying than useful.
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Imagine Twitter on 9/11
Tweeting was not an option for witnesses, survivors or victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the Pentagon. If those individuals were able to log on to Twitter and instantly communicate their whereabouts to their social networks, what would have happened? Families and first responders may have had the chance to say goodbye or save a life, maybe.
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Health IT: Unwired, Unadopted
Providers and consumers of health care are eager to use mobile devices that deliver improved efficiencies and outcomes, yet a number of factors -- from hospitals' inadequate bandwidth to misaligned payment incentives -- are slowing adoption.
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Smart phone as clinical tool: A teledermatology pilot program
A smart-phone pilot project gives patients in underserved areas better access to dermatologists.
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The best of the federal blogosphere
A virtual window on rover research; Thoughts on the innovation recession; The evolution of public engagement; Twitter: Not just a monologue.
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GSA plans for 'sustainability acquisitions'
The premier procurement agency’s plan is to use its buying power to change the federal marketplace.
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No wonder your desk is so messy
The other day, we received a press release on a new survey that indicated that fewer than half of employees take a lunch break away from their desk.
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Communication among public safety agencies like talking into a brick
Disaster response experts say emergency responders need broadband to communicate and to support advanced technology.
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Agency sustainability plans show the challenges of going green
Technology will play a key role in meeting new conservation and greenhouse gas reduction targets.
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Group issues 'i-Awful' list for House privacy bills
Privacy groups argue that the bill is too weak and would do little to change the status quo.
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Holistic Worker Comm
The leaders at the Defense Logistic Agency's Disposition Services outfit, which sells or finds a way to reuse surplus or outmoded military property, has such poor employee communications that it decided it needed some outside help to develop a <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=13555f4deab36ec01bf4cc120dab4f7e&_cview=0>management transformation thingy</a>.
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Health IT Skirts Care Management
The impending large-scale deployment of health information technology seeks to dramatically improve health care, yet those technologies frequently fail to integrate care management systems that can dramatically influence efficiencies and clinical outcomes, according to results of a new survey.
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Army seeks smart 'bots in virtual world
The Army Research Lab wants the best ideas for its Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge.
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How to move past the FISMA mind-set
Federal agencies are paying a price for trying to minimize all possible information security risks, write two top security officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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