Cybersecurity
More on Cyberwar
The debate about what constitutes a cyberwar still rages on. The latest installment comes from a conference put on by cybersecurity vendor ArcSight in National Harbor, Md., where Eneken Tikk, head of the legal and policy branch of the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia, discussed the 2007 attacks on that country's networks.
Digital Government
EHR War: Open vs. Proprietary
When members of a federal advisory group suggested recently that the government shouldn't be in the business of designing electronic health records, Rick Jung nearly fell out of his chair.
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Coast Guard's Approach to EHRs
If everything goes to plan, by the end of September the Coast Guard will award a <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=02e709e7aefc828619352eacd7ae3247&_cview=0>contract</a> for a spanking new commercial electronic health record system that will replace a network based on an ancient version of the Defense Department's electronic medical system.
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Server Consolidation Hires, Then Fires
Whatever the outcome of the White House's initiative to consolidate costly federal data centers, the transition presents a dilemma for contract employees. They stand to gain business by aggregating servers, and, then lose a substantial amount of maintenance and support work once systems are combined or outsourced. This is one finding in a new report by market research firm Input on the challenges facing the administration's effort to downsize server farms in five years.
Ideas
Verizon Nabs HHS Networx Contract
The Health and Human Services Department awarded Verizon Business, a Verizon Communications unit, a $169 million contract to manage and secure Internet protocol and data networks.
People
New tool adds geospatial capabilities to federal data website
The White House's Data.gov website that features multiple datasets for download now has a new capability to show the data geospatially.
Digital Government
American Security Challenge to honor Gen. Alexander
This year's American Security Challenge will feature a ceremony to honor Gen. Keith Alexander with the 2010 Patriot Award.
People
Justice kills case management project; Interior tries plan B for data tool
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced two more actions as a result of the ongoing White House review of 26 high-priority IT projects.
Modernization
National Archives puts 3,000 historic documents online
The National Archives and Records Administration debuts an online repository of historic documents, such as George Washington's handwritten draft of the U.S. Constitution.
People
DOD's IG returns fire following scathing Senate report
Defense Department Inspector General Gordon Heddell responds to a report issued by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that blames the IG's office for overlooking fraud and straying from its core mission.
Modernization
Report: Data center consolidation faces major time, money hurdles
Scarcity of upfront funding and overly ambitious deadlines will make it challenging for agencies to meet mandate, market analysts find.
Digital Government
HHS to use data analytics to uncover Medicare, Medicaid fraud
Software tools will weed out potential incidents of abuse by flagging suspicious activities and anomalies, including unusual patterns in billing and applications for health services, in systems that process requests.
Digital Government
Senators urge Defense, VA to combine needs for medical systems
The departments' programs to modernize their respective electronic health record networks are similar but neither has explained how they will share requirements.
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How are you coping with those creeping health care costs?
Once again, folks, yet another premier report shows the cost of health care spiking ever upward. And, in the face of flat-lining salaries following the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the report shows America’s employees are paying a bigger and bigger share of these ballooning costs.
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