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- Senators push Tangherlini for assurances GSA is improving
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses
- Furlough song: Laugh or you'll cry
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
- NASA engineer, 29, recognized for improving aeronautical testing
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
- Wednesday federal headlines - June 19, 2013
Analysis: HHS health IT program is the right start
The Department of Health and Human Services has made it possible for vendors to certify that their electronic health records hardware and software meet the definition of meaningful use for health information technology. Dr. John Loonsk, former director of interoperability and standards in the Office of the National Coordinator, explains what this means.
DoD, VA database mesh a model for collaboration
Determining the language you'll use to work together is step one, says MHS CIO Chuck Campbell.
DoD shows off health IT progress
Defense Health Information Management System's program manager says e-health records are saving lives and making soldiers safer. The information also is giving commanders more data on soldiers to help stave off health problems.
DoD: Improvements coming soon for health e-records
WFED's Jason Miller reports.
Military Health System works out e-record kinks
System is precursor for nationwide health IT program.
Will Health 2.0 Conference change the practice of medicine?
The Health 2.0 Conference is coming to D.C. for the first time, and one of the conference's co-founders explains that he wants to share best practices with the government in order to help the individual patient.
Future of health IT bright, says SRA's Ed Meagher
Former Deputy CIO at VA sees a "confluence of events" pushing uniformity on health IT.
Feds map progress on road to health IT
Within the next several weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to release the newest guidelines regarding the continuing effort to implement electronic health records across the country. Meanwhile, several feds who are in the thick of the 'health IT' fight talked about their work at yesterday's AFFIRM luncheon here in Washington.
ACT/IAC: VA health IT system needs modernization
Working group chair Ed Meagher says the VA's health IT system is one of the best in the world, but it's also over 30 years old.
Sankaran leaving Federal Health Architecture role
He has been with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT almost since its inception. Sankaran writes to his colleagues that the time is right to pursue other opportunities.
HHS pressed on flexibility in Health IT mandates
The Department of Health and Human Services continues to be the lead agency for the Obama Administration's priority of establishing a nationwide system of permanent electronic health records. But at least one large stakeholder group working with HHS is looking for some changes to the program.
Health care group wants changes to health IT timetable
WFED's Max Cacas reports.
