Digital Government

Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits, A Dollar

To be or not to be a meaningful user of electronic health records? That is the question that has many doctors scratching their heads, says David Blumenthal, whose job as national coordinator for health information technology includes changing physicians' uncertainty into enthusiasm.

Digital Government

Sankaran to leave HHS' Federal Health Architecture

Vish Sankaran, program director for the Federal Health Architecture system, announced his resignation today.

Digital Government

Satisfaction with Gov Web sites remains strong

The Obama administration's Open Government Initiative spurs increase in satisfaction, ForeSee Report says.

Ideas

GSA Hits Social Media Road

The General Services Administration is heading full force into the Web 2.0 space, a move to increase collaboration among federal agencies, officials said Monday at the Web and New Media Conference.

Cybersecurity

TechAmerica wants Congress to move on tax credit, R&D money

The U.S. high-tech industry lost 245,600 jobs in 2009, according to the TechAmerica Foundation.

Digital Government

University of Maryland honors faculty members elected to National Academies

The University of Maryland held a reception for faculty members who recently were elected to the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

Digital Government

GSA launches a short-URL service people just might trust

Go.USA.gov lets registered federal employees convert long government Web-page addresses into short URLs that can fit into a Twitter-size message.

Digital Government

Questions prompt strong defense of broadband program

A Democrat on the Senate Small Business Committee raised concerns on Tuesday that federal regulators are wasting taxpayer dollars by funding duplicative broadband infrastructure projects as part of the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program.

Digital Government

House panel starts work on bill aiming to develop science agencies, innovation

The bill would reauthorize the 2007 America COMPETES Act for five years and would authorize about $82 billion in funding for the bill's programs.

Modernization

GSA chief outlines IT spending to House appropriators

Integrating databases, improving public websites and developing an online application agencies can use to track greenhouse gas emissions are part of a double-digit increase in the agency's fiscal 2011 budget request.

Digital Government

Foreign contractors could face prosecution in U.S. courts

Senate committee approves bill that would subject overseas firms to civil and criminal proceedings in the United States.