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.
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
In Palo Alto, Bling is the thing for electronic payments
Government Computer News
Cybersecurity
Canada to U.S.: Step Up
Canada's privacy commissioner took a swipe at her U.S. counterparts on Monday.
Ideas
For HHS, the Eye is on the Prize
For the Health and Human Services Department, Health IT is all about knowing the end result.
Digital Government
Even When It's Good, It Isn't
Agencies may find it difficult to attract information technology workers now, but could the government lose even those that it has convinced to join the workforce when the economy improves?
Digital Government
IT, Friends Predict Flu Outbreaks
Using electronic health records and predictive models based on the dynamics of social networks, Harvard researchers were able to identify a group of college students who came down with the flu two weeks earlier than did a randomly selected control group. Monitoring the health of individuals whose social connections make them more vulnerable to infections diseases could serve as an effective early warning system for outbreaks, the researchers said.
People
Fiscal year-end spending: Does 'use it or lose it' still rule?
Since 2001, the Office of Management has championed a number of ideas or programs intended to bring order to federal IT spending. But has it really made a difference?
Modernization
FBI resuscitates Sentinel case management system
The FBI has reshaped its Sentinel case management system so that much of the remainder of its development is performed by FBI employees.
Digital Government