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Is There Ebola On That Smartphone?

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov.com | August 20, 2014

Medical staff treating patients with Ebola and other communicable diseases in Africa face a novel kind of smartphone security problem...

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Johns Hopkins APL And Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Release Open Source Electronic Disease Surveillance Software

Press Release | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) , Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) | July 1, 2013

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open-source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings. Read More »

Joint Staff Dumps Oracle And PeopleSoft Planning Software For Open Source

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | September 25, 2014

...NAVSEA said in a contract notice it plans to issue a new contract to MYMIC LLC of Portsmouth, Virginia, for open source planning software to “reduce the high cost of licenses, technical support and custom modifications” with Oracle and PeopleSoft...

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Just How Likely Is Another World War?

Graham Allison | The Atlantic | July 30, 2014

...Historical analogies like 1914 can be fertile sources of insights about contemporary challenges. One danger, however, is that people can find an analogy so compelling that they conclude that current conditions are “just like” 1914...

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Kitware Receives Award To Develop Retinal Image Management System (RIMS)

Press Release | Kitware | October 9, 2014

Kitware is pleased to announce a $150,000 Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award for the development of a Retinal Image Management System (RIMS)...

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Kitware Releases Its Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) Tracking System, Immediately Available Through Forge.mil

Press Release | Kitware | June 10, 2014

Kitware, Inc., a leader in developing advanced computer vision technologies, announces the immediate availability of its state-­of­-the­-art Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) tracking system on Forge.mil, as part of the Kitware Image & Video Exploitation and Retrieval Toolkit (KWIVER). Full source code is available with unlimited rights, under the conditions of the DoD Community Source Usage Agreement, to anyone who can access Forge.mil...

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Leidos Team Touts Interoperability In Military EHR Bid

Adam Mazmanian | FCW | October 3, 2014

Time is running out for vendors to submit bids on the planned $11 billion, 10-year contract to deliver an electronic health records system to the Defense Department. The DOD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM -- pronounced "dim sum") is an ambitious plan to transform the delivery of care to the 9.6 million active-duty service members, their dependents, retirees and others...

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Major Players Bid For Slice Of Federal Health Records Pie

John K. Higgins | ECommerce Times | September 30, 2014

Four teams of contractors so far have indicated they want in on the DoD's massive electronic health records program. While each of the teams presents formidable resources in healthcare IT, to some degree no group has a complete, ready-to-go, solution, said IDC's Scott Lundstrom...

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Marina Martin: Building A New Digital Service At VA

Adam Mazmanian | FCW | December 19, 2014

As chief technology officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs for the past year and a half, Marina Martin has been streamlining VA's disparate online customer relationships into a service that is focused on veterans...

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Military Health System Does Not Like Patient Safety Bad News

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | October 3, 2014

While the Military Health System received overall good grades in a review ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the 765-page report, released yesterday, shows staffers in military hospitals feared retaliation for reporting patient safety problems...

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Military Suicides Decline, But Continued Failures Hold Lessons For Future Wars

Molly O'Toole | Defense One | November 23, 2014

...All across the country there are families like Wayne Telford’s. The year his daughter died was one of the worst for suicides in military the since the Pentagon started closely tracking the data in 2002...

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NIST's Dream: Integrating Security Into Design

Sean Lyngaas | FCW | May 14, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes its new guidelines for IT security will beget a systems engineering process in which security is intrinsic to product design rather than an afterthought.  The guidelines, posted May 12, offer best practices for information systems security based on international engineering standards...

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OMB Turns To The People-Solution To Fix Troubled IT Programs

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | September 15, 2014

...Steve VanRoekel, the federal chief information officer, detailed two specific initiatives under the agenda's smarter IT delivery area to address the technical expertise of federal employees. One is around flexible hiring, and a second is trying another employee exchange program...

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On Spooks And Healthcare: Should We Be Nervous?

Jeff Rowe | HIMSS Future Care | December 18, 2014

An anonymous group of scientists is advising government agencies on futuristic national policies.  Sounds like the stuff of a blockbuster action film or, better yet, timeless political satire...

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On the Road

By John D. Halamka, MD | November 2, 2016

Over the past few months, I’ve been in England, China, Denmark, New Zealand, and Canada. Each of them is rethinking their healthcare IT strategy and is not entirely satisfied with past progress. I’m often asked by senior government officials to help harmonize IT strategy at the country level. That I can do. I’m also asked to discuss the US Presidential campaign, but that defies rational explanation. I frequently say that healthcare IT issues are the same all over the world. Here’s a few common observations..

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