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Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations

Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management want to know why the NRC spent millions of dollars to renovate office space it may never use. DHS and HHS were praised by the committee for their approach to consolidating office space.

Tags: GSA , NRC , management , real estate , real property , Freeze the Footprint , House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , Jason Miller , Dorothy Robyn , Lou Barletta , DHS , Ned Holland , Jeffery Orner , William Borchardt

Thursday - 05/23/2013, 10:29am EDT

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FedRAMP achieves another cloud security milestone

HHS approves Amazon Web Services for meeting security requirements under the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program. The company's secure documents are available for other agencies to review to help accelerate their move to the cloud.

Tags: technology , cybersecurity , GSA , Dave McClure , FedRAMP , cloud computing , Teresa Carlson , Amazon Web Services , Management of Change Conference , ACT-IAC , Jason Miller

Wednesday - 05/22/2013, 03:28am EDT

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Datapalooza IV and open government

US CTO Todd Park and HHS CIO Bryan Sivak talk about this year's Datapalooza event, which takes place next month in Washington D.C.
May 21, 2013

Tags: technology , open data , open government , Bryan Sivak , Todd Park , Healthcare IT , Datapalooza , federal data sets , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk

Tuesday - 05/21/2013, 07:39pm EDT

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Fundraising from HHS secretary draws scrutiny

A fundraising push by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is drawing criticism from a key Senate Republican who questions whether she has a conflict of interest.

Tags: Kathleen Sebelius , Senate , Congress , Orrin Hatch

Monday - 05/13/2013, 04:43am EDT

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Howard leaving HHS for new job at FDA

Sally Howard is stepping down as the chief of staff at Health and Human Services to become the deputy commissioner for policy at the Food and Drug Administration.

Tags: Sally Howard , FDA , Andrea Palm , Kathleen Sebelius , people , management

Tuesday - 04/30/2013, 10:32am EDT

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Compliance and medical data exchange

Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, will discuss interoperability and how to transfer sensitive healthcare data in a secure manner.
April 23, 2013

Tags: technology , compliance , Healthcare IT , interoperability , Jason Miller , electronic health records , Lee Barrett , EHNAC , HIPPA , records sharing , records management , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk , Department of Veterans Affairs , Electronic health records sharing , information sharing , secure messaging , WEDI

Tuesday - 04/23/2013, 07:51pm EDT

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HHS tries to put dent in $65 billion in improper payments

Kay Daly, the assistant inspector general for audit services at Health and Human Services, tells Federal News Radio why HHS has made so many improper payments and what the agency is doing to fix the problem.

Tags: Kay Daly , inspector general , financial management , improper payments , Rise of the Money People , Federal Drive

Thursday - 04/11/2013, 02:25pm EDT

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Healthcare IT and interoperability

Doctor Doug Fridsma, chief science officer for HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, will discuss how interoperability will make it easier to share health information.
April 2, 2013

Tags: technology , Healthcare IT , interoperability , electronic health records , enterprise systems , Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT , information sharing , records management , Blue Button initiative , mobile devices , health information exchange , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk , Doug Fridsma