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Integrating Social Services IT Brings Benefits, Risks
Whether or not they’re expanding coverage eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, state Medicaid programs are subject to a fair amount of financial and policy flux these days. Read More »
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Investing in people keeps the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on mission.
As deputy secretary of VA since 2009, W. Scott Gould has shown himself to be a true champion of human capital. He has fought for and won training budgets that support more than 60 learning and development initiatives to help VA employees deliver on their mission of service—and show measurable results. We talked with Gould at VA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Read More »
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IT Spending Up 2.1 Percent In President's Budget
The Obama administration budget for fiscal year 2014 includes a modest increase in overall IT spending. Total outlays are just under $82 billion, with $42.3 billion in civilian-agency IT spending, and $39.5 going to defense IT. Read More »
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More Money Won’t Win The War On Cancer
A broken grant structure, turf wars, and an exodus of scientists for other professions are bigger barriers to progress than a lack of funding. Read More »
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Mostashari Defends Vendor Fee Proposal
The U.S. National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, outlined his ideas for a proposed vendor fee at a committee meeting Wednesday, arguing that “having an assured funding base” for the agency’s certification program “would reduce uncertainty for the industry.” Read More »
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My Year Of Living Open Source
Sam Muirhead is a videographer who for one year is abandoning proprietary products and instead using and producing open source materials. Read More »
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No Duh. EMR Implementation Costs Too Much
Courtesy of Information Week, we get the following news: apparently, EMRs cost too much. Stop the presses! Read More »
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NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives
Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »
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Obama Eyes $2B Increase In IT Budget
The president’s budget proposes nearly $2 billion in additional information technology funding for 2014, which would raise overall IT spending to $82 billion. Read More »
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Op-ed: The Human Side Of Cyber Threats
The escalation of advanced persistent threats to federal systems has cybersecurity leaders rethinking their network protection and risk mitigation strategies. Nearly 50,000 incidents were reported by agencies in fiscal 2012, a 5 percent increase over the previous year. Read More »
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Open Data Platforms: A Tool To Revolutionise Governance
Jay Naidoo shares lessons on how to engage citizens in governance and strengthen civil society through open data Read More »
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Political Implications of the Supreme Court Decision on Health Reform
Regardless of the facts about the benefits or costs of health reform, a majority of Americans still favor repeal of the legislation. Those numbers rose in the run up to the 2010 elections and helped provide the shellacking the President received in the mid-term elections.
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Porter Struggles With Electronic Records System, Sees Big Cost Overrun
Porter Hospital has fallen behind in its multi-year effort to implement an electronic medical records system designed to improve patient care by replacing outdated paper recordkeeping. Read More »
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President’s Budget Moves Spending Transparency Site From GSA To Treasury
President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal moves control over the spending transparency website USASpending.gov out of the General Services Administration and gives it to the Treasury Department. Read More »
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Quit Wasting Money On e-Health Records, Congress Tells Defense And VA
Worried that the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments might continue to spend years and billions of dollars in a “futile exercise” to develop their own electronic health record systems “and lose sight of the end-goal of an interoperable record,” lawmakers included funding restrictions in the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Act the House passed Wednesday. Read More »
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