Cybersecurity
Contract change puts personal data at risk
Thousands of customers are wondering what will happen to the fingerprint and personal data they provided to a Registered Traveler operator who went out of business.
Digital Government
Groups want to push back health IT deadlines
Health groups are urging the government to extend the proposed deadlines for adopting health IT under the economic stimulus law.
Digital Government
Agency will study health IT workflow
A federal health agency will study how doctors change their workflows to adapt to health IT.
Cybersecurity
Two familiar snags await DHS
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano must define inherently government work and find the people to do the insourced work.
Cybersecurity
DHS contracts in line for evaluation
All new professional services contracts worth more than $1 million will be reviewed, including PACTS.
Cybersecurity
DHS names PACTS winners
The Homeland Security Department has awarded the $1.5 billion PACTS contract for professional services.
Digital Government
DHS to sweep up more data on employees, contractors
DHS says it is expanding the types of personal information it will collect on employees and contractors who require long-term access.
Modernization
How DHS cut costs: Software recycling, contract consolidation
DHS has cited savings from recycling software, consolidating contracts and pursuing other cost-cutting measures.
Digital Government
SSA seeks more access to NHIN
The agency is considering having providers use the Nationwide Health Information Network to submit medical records that help SSA determine applicants' eligibility for federal disability payments.
Cybersecurity
Registered Traveler: Data privacy, security prompts chairman’s inquiry
A House committee chairman is questioning TSA on its handling of personal data for the Registered Traveler program.
Cybersecurity
Verified Identity Pass shuts down Registered Traveler lanes
Transportation Security Administration declines to comment on closure.
People
Health IT coordinator to harmonize record standards, network
The National Coordinator for Health IT plans to resolve differences between electronic patient records and the National Health Information Network data exchange system.
People
Some doctors to get health IT help
The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology said he is dealing with the special health IT needs of doctors in small practices.
Cybersecurity
Napolitano endorses PASS ID bill
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has backed proposed legislation that would repeal part of the Real ID Act.
Cybersecurity
Obama names DHS management honcho
President Barack Obama has named Rafael Borras as DHS under secretary for management.
Digital Government
House backs biometrics in DHS 2010 spending bill
The House endorsed a spending increase on DHS' largest biometrics program in the fiscal 2010 spending bill it has passed.
Cybersecurity
Coast Guard seeks new IT directorate
To fully carry out its modernization plans — including a new command structure for IT — the Coast Guard must obtain additional authorization from Congress, GAO says.
Modernization
Stimulus law Web site in flux
An online dialogue to improve the Recovery.gov Web site functioned better than an RFI, according to the National Academy of Public Administration's analysis.
Digital Government
What is 'meaningful use?'
The Health IT Policy Committee is revising a proposed framework for defining and setting benchmarks for meaningful use of health IT.
Digital Government