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Mismatched data puts patient safety at risk, group warns
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Despite renewed criticism from both parties in Congress that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to US citizens—and a report from its own Inspector General recommending to stop buying them—the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has indicated it wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones used to fly surveillance missions inside the United States. Read More »

Late last month, lawmakers introduced a bill (HR 2590) that would require the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to establish interoperability between their electronic health record systems within 180 days of the bill's enactment, EHR Intelligence reports (Bresnick, EHR Intelligence, 7/23). Read More »

House Republicans on Friday made good on their threat to approve legislation to shut down the government beginning Oct. 1, unless the White House and Senate Democrats agree to defund the Affordable Care Act Read More »

The Fort Hood shooting is an extreme and shocking example of what has become a chronic concern for the military: soldiers with mental-health problems taking their own lives.  And it's not just the active-duty military who face what has become an increasingly daunting problem.

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University graduates are as vital a resource for the United States as anything that is mined, extracted, or farmed from nature. [...] In short, there is a very strong public interest for incentivizing intelligent students to aspire to a college education. Read More »

Here at DOBT we talk a lot about How To Fix Procurement, but you don’t hear a lot about why things go wrong. The Healthcare.gov Fiasco is instructive in that it highlights every piece of our procurement process that’s broken. How, with a half-trillion dollar a year spend, could something like this botch even happen? Here’s how: Read More »