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Study calls for Vermont to embrace IT
The Vermont Institute on Government Effectiveness released a study detailing how the state could save up to $30 million a year by improving its IT infrastructure.
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FAA PC deal includes disposal costs
The blanket purchase agreement, worth up to $100 million over five years, was written to reflect total cost of ownership.
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Tools to solve the puzzle
Repositories, however, won't yield those anticipated benefits unless they are customized for an agency's specific needs.
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XML group updating federal design guidebook
The General Services Administration, the Homeland Security Department and the Federal CIO Council are collectively revamping a widely used federal guide for creating Extensible Markup Language-based schemas. Wednesday will be the last chance for agencies to influence at least the first draft of this document.
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Commission sets tone for standards work
The new public/private American Health Information Community will not start its standards work from scratch.
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CMS to update Medicare hospital claims processing system
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to modernize the claims system that contractors use to process and perform payment for hospitals that provide inpatient and outpatient services to Medicare patients.
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Citadel offers cybersecurity warranty
Company introduces Hercules SecurePlus, an insurance policy against financial losses caused by cyberattacks.
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SGI debuts acceleration technology
The technology can accelerate speed of applications running on SGI's Itanium 2 servers.
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NSF creates information protection center
Iowa State University will house the new Center for Information Protection, which will conduct research leading to commercial products within 12 months.
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Focus turns to disaster response
The slow, disorganized response by emergency responders to Hurricane Katrina has prompted IT officials to think more creatively about how to deploy technology.
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FCC proposes telecom help in areas hit by Katrina
Chairman Kevin Martin proposed about $211 million to help low-income residents, health care providers, schools, libraries and telecom companies.
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A PDA in hand ...
Local, state and federal emergency responders in the Gulf Coast are using their own self-contained portable radio units with batteries, satellite phones or communications trailers with an array of devices.
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Congress wants to give VA CIO’s IT budget authority
Congress is proposing legislation that could make the Veterans Affairs Department a model for giving department CIOs across government more authority over IT resources.
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MetaCarta enters civilian government market
The Environmental Protection Agency is MetaCarta's first government customer outside of defense, intelligence and homeland security agencies.
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Unisys to provide prison phones
The integrator will replace an inmate telephone system with new technologies under a Bureau of Prisons contract.
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DOD renews deal with Booz Allen for HR integration support
The Defense Department has renewed a contract with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for continued information management support to the Joint Requirements and Integration Office.
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Sprint employees blog on hurricane relief efforts
Sprint Nextel staff work from 'Sprint City,' a six-acre home for hurricane relief workers at the Baton Rouge, La., fairgrounds.
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Scott Young | The next steps for a national health IT infrastructure
GCN staff writer Mary Mosquera moderated an online forum about federal efforts to jump-start development of a national health IT infrastructure. The guest was Scott Young, M.D., director for health information technology at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of the Health and Human Services Department.<br><@SM><a href="http://appserv.gcn.com/forum/qna_forum/36946-2.html"><u>Young transcript</u></a>.<@SM>
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