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Lessons learned: NASA patch management
In little more than a year, NASA managed to deploy an automated patch management system that now covers more than 80,000 devices, about 94 percent of the space agency’s computers.
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U.K. completes major engineering work for health IT system
National Health Service hopes to fully deploy medical imaging system within two years.
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Is this thing on? (tap, tap)
It started as a hobbyist technology and recently found a foothold at forward-thinking federal agencies.
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IRS to e-filers: Use approved encryption
The IRS has directed e-file program participants who transmit directly to the agency’s Electronic Management System to use only IRS-approved encryption methods for the 2006 and subsequent filing seasons.
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Health IT to help with care for Katrina victims
Agencies are trying to recover parts of patient medical records from electronic systems to replace paper records lost in the storm.
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OPM, VA push standards from the purse
The administration’s biggest ally in getting doctors’ offices and hospitals to use electronic health records just might be under its own control.
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Operation health IT
A consumer in the not-too-distant future will go to a drug store and pick up a prescribed medicine, knowing that the pharmacist has received an electronic order from a physician.
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Local terminologies pose barriers to change
They’ve all agreed to drive on the right side of the road, but to implement the change gradually.
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Senate should up 2006 e-gov, Census funding: White House
Senate plans to reduce requested Census Bureau 2006 funding would suspend the American Community Survey and increase the cost of the next decennial census, according to a Statement of Administration Policy.
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Navy: Don’t access personal e-mail at work
Acceptable use IT policy explains the do’s and don’ts.
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Financially Sound
More driven by federal policy than technology, recent developments in financial software for government are closely tracking high-level directives that emphasize lines of business, strategic plans and project portfolios instead of next week’s payroll or overdue payables.
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Justice submits its security tool as the standard for every agency to follow
Using a homegrown accountability client, the Justice Department is attempting to become a Center of Excellence for the Cybersecurity Line of Business Consolidation initiative.
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Hurricane Katrina: Disaster relief
The government is responding to the devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read Federal Computer Week’s ongoing coverage of the relief efforts.
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Union wants injunction against HR system upheld
A union representing DHS employees asked a federal judge to uphold her injunction against MaxHR.
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GAO: FBI enterprise architecture growing
The FBI falls short of a fully operational enterprise architecture but has improved since the days when it had no architecture at all, GAO said.
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Commentary: Demonstrating the potential, closing barriers for health IT
Modern health care is fundamentally an information-based activity. So, in the 21st century, it is surprising how little IT has penetrated the health care sector.
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Thinking nationally, starting locally
Several states already have taken steps toward establishing local health information infrastructures.
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