Digital Government
Fighting Swine Flu Online
The Health and Human Services Department <a href=http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/04/20090426a.html>declared</a> a public health emergency on Sunday due to a limited outbreak of swine flu in California, Kansas, Ohio, Texas and New York, as well as Canada and New Mexico.
Digital Government
Obama names members of technology council
President Barack Obama announced a group of science and technology experts that will advise the administration on related policies.
Modernization
Recovery board begins online dialogue with IT vendors
The panel overseeing the economic stimulus law debuted a new Web site today to invite ideas from IT vendors, experts and consumers.
Modernization
Firm provides swine flu updates to agencies
A private firm is providing updates on the swine flu outbreak in Mexico to U.S. health agencies and the public.
Cybersecurity
Langevin Determined To Prevent A 'Cyber 9/11'
Rhode Island Democrat supports White House oversight of cybersecurity, but opposes giving it to any one agency
Digital Government
Feds coordinate Web communications to fight swine flu
Agencies should further cooperate to create an online center of information dissemination, with an increase in applications if Swine bug infections escalate.
Digital Government
The Soviet Encyclopedia, AHLTA Style
I've been poking around for a couple of weeks on a story that, in 2001, the Naval Medical Center in San Diego had developed a low-cost way to integrate the Defense Department's Composite Health Care System (now called AHLTA, <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/03/ahlta_maybe_not_a_noun.php>maybe not a noun</a>) and the Veterans Affairs Department's electronic health record system, the Veterans Health Information System and Technology Architecture (VistA).
Ideas
A Twitter Tweak For Cheeky
The number of feds on the micro-blogging service <a href="http://twitter.com/Nextgov">Twitter</a> has exploded lately, making the medium that much more effective for finding and sharing information about all things Government 2.0.
Ideas
What to Expect From Kundra
Technology contractors attending a breakfast on Thursday where Vivek Kundra, Obama's new federal chief information officer (aka, "administrator of the office of e-government and information technology at the Office of Management and Budget" back in the olden days) appeared, got a hint of where he may want to take agencies and information technology.
Ideas
Sonal Shah Appointment Confirmed
Following <a href="http://www.indiawest.com/readmore.aspx?id=1080&sid=1">reports</a> that <a href="http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/former_googler_sonal_shah_to_lead_white_house_office_of_social_innovation">surfaced</a> last week, a White House spokesman has confirmed to Nextgov that Google executive Sonal Shah will be joining the Obama administration as director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
Modernization