Digital Government
Wanted: Satellite Internet service
Officials at Mississippi's Biloxi Regional Medical Center felt the loss of crucial transaction-processing functions, such as insurance verification, because of downed circuits.
Modernization
Computer forensics: Donning your detective hat
Computer forensics experts keep busy as more wrongdoing occurs online
Digital Government
Medicaid records speed response
After spending four days tending patients in the New Orleans Superdome, Louisiana's Dr. Roxanne Townsend saw critical health information literally washing away.
People
Rescue hero: James Shugars
Shugars turned around the Automated Drug Information Management System, the centerpiece of a program that provides information on the safety and effectiveness of drugs.
Digital Government
A blanket of SNOMED
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the widespread use of health records is medical terminology.
Cybersecurity
Panelists discuss path to top IT security job
“Think crisply, and write well,” said Jane Scott Norris, the State Department’s chief security official at the Computer Security Institute conference.
Digital Government
Indiana dishes out EHR services
The first electronic health record system, installed in Indiana in 1972, still serves as a model for other health systems.
People
Rescue hero: Larry Bell
When Bell arrived at the Information Services Division of ATF, he quickly realized something important was amiss.
Digital Government
Portland VA center pilots personal health portal
Portland is one of nine sites where the VA is demonstrating My HealtheVet to show that it can provide veterans with safe, secure and private electronic health records.
Digital Government
Dodged the storm but not the crisis
Health care facilities that were not in the direct path of hurricanes Katrina and Rita still felt their ferocious impact.
People
Rescue hero: Michael Snyder
Snyder set up standard processes for DOD's Manage the Business program, empowered managers and improved communications among them.
People
Rescue hero: Eric Brusoe
In less than a year, Brusoe turned around a governmentwide Defense Department program that was stalled and in danger of being canceled.</
People
Inspectors' gadgets save time
Instead of driving to their downtown office, building inspectors in Jacksonville, Fla., use cell phones to check in and out of work.
Modernization