Digital Government
Disasters were not an e-gov priority
Feds, Congress had little support for emergency management e-gov
People
At home in the DISA Louisiana megacenter
The megacenter has not been processing a lot of data, but it has housed 120 hurricane evacuees and served 360 meals a day.
People
Intercepts
Sat phone infrastructure. The AA battery lesson. Northcom helps Katrina evacuees tune in. Send in the oral historians. Love in the ruins.
People
From health care fortress to IT showcase
Illinois' Cook County Hospital, opened in the 1830s as the Poor House, has become one the most advanced health care centers in the world.
People
Physicians' e-mails document post-Katrina horrors
Providing care in hurricane-battered areas was compounded by shortfalls in the National Disaster Medical System.
Digital Government
Small-biz report leaves gaping questions
Experts ask if small business is really getting its piece of the pie
Digital Government
Vendors scramble for seats at the table
Industry players emerge in the high-stakes effort to shape a national health IT policy and speed the implementation of clinical information systems.
Digital Government
Diabetes monitoring reaches new levels
In the United States and abroad, health care professionals have started to wield information technology to identify, treat and manage patients with diabetes.
Digital Government
Forecasting Katrina
Scientists use a slew of technologies to predict impact of hurricanes
Digital Government
First responders criticize fed priorities
New report says counterterrorism focus is costly
Digital Government
Mixing, matching and missing
The state of health IT standards resembles nothing more than a basket of mismatched socks
People
HHS gathers health data for Katrina evacuees
By next week, HHS officials hope to make some elements of patients' medical records available to doctors treating people from the Gulf Coast.
Digital Government
State and local IT spending on the rise
After a dry spell, governments look to technology
People