Emerging Tech
A Smart City Is an Accessible City
A new breed of accessibility apps can make life easier for people with disabilities. They can also make it harder.
Emerging Tech
Cell-Phone Radiation Can Cause Cancer in Rats. The Next Question: What Does it Mean For Humans?
The studies were nearly two decades in the making.
Modernization
Report: Management Drama Threatens to Derail VA’s Health Records Overhaul
The vendor’s software is also falling short of the department’s requirements, according to ProPublica.
Modernization
Pentagon's Health Record Platform Shows Progress After Initial Setbacks
The system has decreased emergency room wait times and increased the number of patients facilities are able to treat, the vendor reports.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Breach Healthcare.gov
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acknowledged 75,000 people's records were accessed but haven’t disclosed who might be behind it.
Modernization
Pentagon, VA Leaders Commit to Boosting Accountability in Health Record Overhaul
Both secretaries pledged to re-examine the multibillion-dollar program’s organization structure and timelines.
Modernization
24 Companies Join VA’s Health Record Modernization Team
Cerner Corp. announces a lengthy list of subcontractors for the multi-billion dollar project.
Emerging Tech
Why You’re Probably Getting a Microchip Implant Someday
Microchip implants are going from tech-geek novelty to genuine health tool—and you might be running out of good reasons to say no.
Digital Government
DHS Needs More Data to Help Stop Bioterrorism
The agency is looking for nationwide information on medical interventions, food safety, wildlife health, travel itineraries and other health-related topics.
Modernization
Congress Doesn’t Know Who’s in Charge of VA’s $10 Billion Health Records Overhaul
Lawmakers are trying to figure out what to do about the lack of accountability within the program’s leadership.
Digital Government
The New Apple Watch Is Going to Have More of Your Health Data Than Your Doctor
Owners of the watch can get hospital-grade heart monitoring in 30 seconds.
Emerging Tech
New Device From AT&T Could Help People With Prosthetic Limbs
The wearable device collects troves of data.
Modernization
Lawmaker: Don’t Let “Rudderless Leadership” Cripple VA Health Record Overhaul
The program’s chief administrator resigned less than two months after taking charge of the project. Another top official left her post days earlier.
Artificial Intelligence
Facebook Is Dipping its Toe Into Medical AI Research
Facebook’s project could make MRIs more efficient.
Modernization
VA Opens Bids on Revamping its Main Website
VA wants to improve its web presence in a big way.
Modernization
Report: Private Trump Advisers Tried to Derail the VA’s Multibillion-Dollar IT Overhaul
A ProPublica investigation found three advisers weighed in heavily on the hiring and firing of high-level tech leaders within the agency.
Artificial Intelligence
Report: IBM Watson AI Recommended Unsafe Cancer Treatments
The system was trained using hypothetical scenarios.
Emerging Tech