People
Pentagon beefs up info sharing after Fort Hood review
Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the military to adopt tighter security measures and improve methods that unit commanders use to share medical information about potentially violent individuals under their command.
Modernization
HHS offers widget for identifying health insurance choices
The Health and Human Services Department has an online widget to help people identify the health insurance plans are sold in their states.
Digital Government
Technology is changing marching orders for Army leadership
Army leaders believe future military operations will increasingly rely on a dispersed, decentralized force. Now they need to know how to lead in that environment.
Digital Government
Peer Review: Docs Share EHR Tales
The best lessons learned are those you don't have to learn yourself. At least, that seems to be the idea behind a free, downloadable guide incorporating the experience of about 170 health IT professionals who have already implemented electronic health records (EHRs) in their organizations.
Digital Government
River Walk and the Internet: Some speculation on government investments
Steve Kelman speculates that the government's role in making risky investments pays off well.
Digital Government
Bedbugs invade file cabinets at SSA offices
The Social Security Administration offices in Queens, N.Y., are under siege from bedbugs.
Cybersecurity
Defense Networks Breached in 2008
The <em>Washington Post</em> reported on Wednesday that Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III says in an article to be released today that malicious code on a flash drive inserted in a military computer in 2008 in the Middle East "spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems."
Digital Government
Five years after Katrina, government IT still feels storm's fury
Five years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the region continues to rebuild and the federal government is still trying to fix information technology-related problems that the storm and its aftermath exposed.
Digital Government
Pentagon project seeks to streamline human-resource process
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
Biden: Stimulus dollars fueling energy- and life-saving technology
Recovery Act has fueled solar power and medical research breakthroughs, says vice president.
Digital Government
State, local health IT spending projected to be $10B by 2015
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
Top Defense official says the U.S. must beef up cyber defenses
William Lynn, who disclosed classified networks were infiltrated by a malicious code in 2008, says the department must develop ways to stop attacks before sensitive information is stolen.
Digital Government
Be careful mixing politics and Facebook, counsel office says
Office of Special Counsel outlines what federal employees must look out for when using social media for political purposes.
Digital Government
What incentives would you like your agency to offer?
The Office of Personnel Management says that the number of feds participating in the federal student loan repayment program has jumped in recent years—23 percent in 2009 alone.
Ideas