Modernization
Web application gives air travelers chance to rate airport security procedures
The Transportation Security Administration, which has not endorsed the real-time survey, has not responded to an offer to receive the polling results.
Digital Government
HHS defines rules for receiving billions for e-health systems
Standards set what must be included in electronic health records networks for professionals to qualify for stimulus funds, and Google and Microsoft products may meet the criteria later.
Ideas
HHS Defines 'Meaningful Use' for EHRs
The Health and Human Services Department on Wednesday set preliminary terms dictating who will and will not get billions of dollars in stimulus funds for buying electronic health records systems.
Digital Government
VA officials suspend development of e-training system to rework strategy
Managers want to make sure the Learning Management System, one of the 45 projects suspended in July, can meet deadlines.
Digital Government
Christmas Day airline attack could lead to more scanners
The Christmas Day attack on a jetliner over Detroit, combined with technological improvements to protect people's sense of modesty, could lead to dramatically wider use of full-body scanners that can see through travelers' clothing.
Digital Government
Medicare officials plan to pay doctors and hospitals to use e-health records
Under a proposal, doctors and hospitals that keep updated electronic medical records of their patients could receive bonus payments for using the software.
Ideas
Order Addresses Digital Declassification
A much anticipated redo of classification policy released by the White House this week confers new responsibilities for addressing the impending problem of reviewing mountains of electronic records for declassification.
Ideas
Would-be Bomber Fallout Piles Up
<em>New York Times</em> columnist Maureen Dowd pointed out in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/opinion/30dowd.html?_r=1">her Wednesday column</a> the incongruity of a President Obama's technological savvy and his inability to prod agencies to move out of the past:
Digital Government
GOP senator says Democrats trying to rush TSA nominee
Sen. Jim DeMint complains that Democrats are trying to rush a vote on Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration without adequate debate.
Digital Government
Obama orders review of screening technology, watch list system
In the wake of an attempted in-air terrorist attack on Christmas Day, the president ordered the Homeland Security Department on Tuesday to lead a review of aviation screening technology and report results to the White House by Thursday.
Ideas
TSA: Overly Reliant on Technology?
Anyone who has watched the news during the past few days has heard extensive commentary about how a terrorist managed to board a plane with explosives on Christmas Day. Some blame inefficient management of the watch lists, others blame lax security procedures. But one commentator who spoke during a local NBC affiliate broadcast gave the most backwards rationale of all: over reliance on technology.
Cybersecurity
Government technology made huge leaps during past decade
The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks spurred the development of information sharing, backup systems, consolidation, social networking and more attention on cybersecurity.
Ideas
Put Desktops In Cloud
An EPA senior official who earlier this month challenged a Washington online community to "put your desktop into the cloud" -- or work completely on the Web -- has generated <a href="http://semweb.meetup.com/31/calendar/11944383/">some grassroots support</a>.
Digital Government
Napolitano concedes airline security system failed, including watch list database
Enter Abstract hereHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watch list with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
Modernization
Enterprise content management and the system-is-the-solution fallacy
When it comes to enterprise content management systems, many agencies buy technology before they have strategies in place, writes columnist Tim Sprehe.
Digital Government
About Schmidt: We finally have a cybersecurity coordinator. Now what?
The challenges facing Howard Schmidt as he takes on the job of coordinating the nation's cyber defenses might be equaled only by the opportunities.
Digital Government
The ’00 7: The decade’s most important tech advances
We select seven technologies that changed the game during the unofficial decade of 2000-2009.
Cybersecurity