Digital Government
U.S. lags the world's top adopters of electronic health records systems
Report urges the government to adopt Scandinavian policies to increase use of the systems, but acknowledges the task here will be greater.
Modernization
Citizenship agency launches interactive Web site
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has launched a revamped Web site that lets users track their applications and petitions online. The new USCIS.gov site also makes national trend and raw data available.
Ideas
Obama Debuts Innovation Agenda
President Obama, long referred to as the "tech president," has had no formal innovation agenda to back up the title - until now. During a visit to New York's Hudson Valley Community College on Monday, Obama laid out a strategy for creating new jobs, businesses and industries through tapping the nation's innovative potential.
Digital Government
Hospital Exec Tapped for VA Health Job?
Well-informed folks have told me that <a href=http://www.ssmhc.com/internet/home/ssmcorp.nsf/46a13372d66f8fe8862569f50053bbaa/777fc0898ff3324a862573cd007b92f4?OpenDocument>William Schoenhard</a>, who until this August served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of St. Louis-based SSN Health Care has the inside track as the new head of the Veterans Health Administration.
Digital Government
OPM Kicks Off Annual Charity Drive
The Office of Personnel Management has kicked off the 2009 Combined Federal Campaign, the world's largest workplace giving campaign. OPM Director John Berry on Friday sent a <a href="http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2505">letter</a> to the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, stressing the importance of supporting the CFC as a means to show the American people who federal workers really are. "For over three decades, federal workers have been denigrated and maligned," Berry wrote. "These attacks have hurt recruitment, they've hurt retention, and ultimately, they impair our ability to serve the American people."
Acquisition
Dell-Perot game plan: Government is a 'big big market'
Dell and Perot Systems can use each other's resources to increase business with the federal government, experts say.
Digital Government
Health data breach notification rule starts Sept. 23
A new Health and Human Services Department rule that requires health care organizations to notify patients when their data is disclosed without authorization goes into effect Sept. 23.
Cybersecurity
TSA needs privacy IT tools, IG says
The TSA has made progress in implementing privacy protections, but still needs to beef up its monitoring and enforcement with automated tools, DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner says.
Digital Government
Standards body issues draft advisory on maintaining open government data
Government Computer News
Digital Government
IG: TSA employees are well-informed on privacy issues
Automated tools would help the agency better protect personal information stored on computers, IG reports.
Cybersecurity
IG blasts management of Energy's classified information network
National Nuclear Security Administration program lacks capacity to handle required data.
Digital Government