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Delivering a Customer-Focused Government Through Smarter IT
A core part of the President’s Management Agenda is improving the value we deliver to citizens through Federal IT. That’s why, today, the Administration is formally launching the U.S. Digital Service. The Digital Service will be a small team made up of our country’s brightest digital talent that will work with agencies to remove barriers to exceptional service delivery and help remake the digital experience that people and businesses have with their government. Read More »
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EHR Failure Partly To Blame For VA Troubles
In a wide-ranging critique of federal IT, former defense secretary Robert Gates says the inability to set up an electronic health record system linking the Pentagon and the VA is one of his 'chief regrets.’...
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Exec: Resurrecting Healthcare.Gov Meant Dealing With Bureaucracy, Incompetence, Politics
The U.S. government’s IT infrastructure is broken, and it’s hurting the country. Applying basic engineering skills that are common at Internet companies could change that situation...
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Health IT Attracting Huge Investments
Venture capital funding for health information technology surpassed $1 billion for the first time in Q2 2014 – far surpassed, in fact, with $1.8 billion raised in 161 deals, more than doubling the $861 million raised in the previous quarter...
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Mikey Dickerson: No Paper Pushing At US Digital Service
Mikey Dickerson has already bucked Washington convention with his rumpled shirts and notable lack of neckwear. Now, the head of the U.S. Digital Service, a newly formed White House office responsible for improving government technology projects, is putting the federal IT community on notice: Don’t expect any paper pushing from his office...
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US CIO Steven Vanroekel Steps Down
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel is unexpectedly departing his post at the White House today to join the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Ebola response team. In his new role as USAID chief innovation officer, VanRoekel will be responsible for advising the agency on using technology and data in its response to the epidemic...
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