Cybersecurity

Hospitals tighten security on patient data

Federal Computer Week

Digital Government

FEMA weighs outfitting housing inspectors with smart phones

Move would allow inspectors to carry fewer pieces of equipment and work more efficiently.

Digital Government

Keep health IT standards simple, says chief technology officer

Aneesh Chopra recommends HHS design easy-to-understand criteria for more efficient patient data exchanges.

Digital Government

Medicare agency to post payment data on public Web site

Online tracker aimed at exposing wasteful spending, but sparks privacy concerns.

Digital Government

GSA pushes back Networx deadlines

Even with the extensions, agencies are unlikely to finish moving to the new contract by the time the old one expires, observer says.

Acquisition

Gordon gets Senate panel's nod for OFPP

Senate Governmental Affairs Committee chairman seems confident about Daniel Gordon getting the Senate’s approval to the the administator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

Digital Government

Treating 419,000

That figure -- 419,000 vets form the Afghanistan and Iraq wars -- staggers the mind, especially when you consider that this is 61 percent above the number the Veterans Affairs Department treated in its 153 hospitals and more than 1,110 outpatient clinics in 2008, according to the report on the Senate version of the VA fiscal 2010 appropriations bill passed on Tuesday.

Ideas

Air Force Needs More PS3s?

Part of my job involves searching through , the online home for almost all procurement-related federal notices. The vast majority of the technology-related notices in <a href="http://www.fedbizopps.gov/">FedBizOps</a> are pretty standard: hardware purchases and requests for information for new security software. Occasionally you'll see a notice about a bigger upcoming project.

Ideas

Commitee Passes Cybersecurity Bill

The House Committee on Science and Technology approved a bill Wednesday to support cybersecurity research and training, and the development of clear cybersecurity standards for federal agencies to follow.