Emerging Tech
The U.S. Government Just Gave Someone a $120 Million Robotic Arm to Use For a Year
There are plans to help others with limb loss soon.
Modernization
Congress Calls Coast Guard's Health Records System A 'Five-Year Epic Failure'
The modernization project went over budget and didn't yield any reusable software or equipment.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Is Using 46 Billion Data Points to Predict the Medical Outcomes of Hospital Patients
Google hopes to predict your medical outcome as soon as you’re admitted to the hospital.
Digital Government
My Pacemaker Is Tracking Me From Inside My Body
Cloud-connected medical devices save lives, but also raise questions about privacy, security, and oversight.
Modernization
Optimization Is Next Step For Defense Department’s Health Records Platform
The Defense Department and the contractors building its $4.3 billion health records platform say they’re on schedule
Cybersecurity
DHS Inoculating Labs Against Hacks That Could Release Dangerous Diseases
The department is developing ways to secure federal research facilities from cyberattacks on their internet-connected controls.
Modernization
Defense Department Halts Electronic Health Records Rollout
During an eight-week pause, the department will assess the program's successes and failures so far.
Digital Government
Don’t Try to Work Through the Flu of 2018
And it's not too late to get a flu shot.
Digital Government
A New Robot Is Teaching People with Autism to Navigate Office Politics
In the US and the UK, more than 80% of autistic adults are unemployed.
Emerging Tech
Scientists Developed an Electronic Pill to Analyze the Gas in Your Gut
A way to shed light on the mysteries of our digestive tract.
Emerging Tech
Tech Company Introduces Audio Technology to Help Those with Hearing Loss
A different kind of hearing aid.
Emerging Tech
The CDC Is Now Officially Planning For a Nuclear Attack
Welcome to 2018. It’s been an apocalyptic start to the new year.
Cybersecurity
These LA Startups Are What Stand Between Hackers and Your Medical Devices
Some of the most important cybersecurity work is happening in nondescript offices across the nation.
Emerging Tech
US Lifts Ban on Super-Virus Studies
But that doesn't mean there will be genetically modified strains of ebola in a test tube near you.
Digital Government
HHS Turns to Citizen Coders to Curtail Opioid Epidemic
More than 300 coders and health advocates showed up for the agency’s first code-a-thon.
Digital Government
How VA Turns Survey Data into Better Veteran Health Care
Real-time feedback could help the Veterans Affairs Department direct respondents to task forces for suicide or homelessness.
Emerging Tech
FDA Is Looking Into Drones for Health Inspections
But how drone-collected data will figure into the agency's old school processes is still being worked out.
Digital Government
Lawmakers: How Many Cyber Threat Centers Does the Government Need?
Congress questions HHS' cyber threat center and other things they did under the shadow of the American Health Care Act.
Digital Government
Veterans Affairs to Adopt Same Commercial Health Records Platform as DOD
Secretary David Shulkin said there was a public interest exception in skipping a full and open competition.
Cybersecurity