Digital Government

Great health care requires great medical educators

Education is not an industrial process; it is a human one.

People

Scoring CIOs on social media

A new analysis seeks to find which CIOs are the best at using Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Digital Government

Army leads services in substance abuse diagnoses

Service accounts for nearly three-quarters of total cases.

Modernization

Who's winning the mobile browser war?

Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome compete for dominance on smartphone screens.

Digital Government

Mobile health tech: From novel startups to global industry

Last week's mHealth summit in Washington, D.C., gave tech leaders an opportunity to evaluate the field and its future.

Modernization

Wireless broadband: Ready for government work?

The government has been slow to allow wireless networking, largely due to some familiar concerns: Security and reliability. That could be about to change.

Digital Government

Buggy software: Achilles' heel of big-data-powered science?

Scholarly writing suggests software defects are holding big data back.

Modernization

Legacy systems still power much of government

Despite all the talk of modernization, much of the government's IT spending goes to the operation of systems based on decades-old technology.

Digital Government

Report chronicles the rising burden of military mental health care

Mental disorders accounted for 63 percent increase in hospital visits during 11 years of war.

Emerging Tech

John McAfee can't stay out of the spotlight

Software magnate posts a Q&A while in a Guatemalan detention center.

Modernization

Apple Maps are leaving people stranded in the Outback

The mobile app is still working out the bugs.

Cybersecurity

Accidentally leaked credentials; Misplaced data

Government (U.S.) // Washington, DC, United States

Cybersecurity

Data dump; Network intrusion

Government (Foreign) // China

Cybersecurity

Bitcoin is as legit as Paypal now, in at least one country

The French government has given one of the company's exchanges permission to operate as a payment service provider there.

Digital Government

More invisible wounds of war

VA expands list of illnesses related to traumatic brain injury that will qualify vets for disability benefits.

Cybersecurity

Cyber early warning deal collapses after Russia balks

UN-recognized organization fails to reach consensus on declaration to avoid cyberwar.

Emerging Tech

NASA: Apocalypse, no!

A senior scientist at the agency debunks doomsday theories.

Digital Government

Electronic records surge continues

Nearly 72 percent of office-based doctors use them.

Emerging Tech

Another kind of secession petition

Leader of the micronation 'Molossia' seeks recognition from U.S.

Cybersecurity

Can an executive order protect against a 'cyber Pearl Harbor?'

A draft executive order on cybersecurity eliminates the mandates on the private sector that had been a sticking point in the failed attempt to pass legislation, insiders say.