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HHS creates process to certify health IT systems
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will approval organizations to test and certify electronic health records hardware and software. Vendors should be able to submit products to be evaluated this fall.
Tags: technology , contracting , David Blumenthal , Steve Posnack , Carol Bean , Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT , health IT , vendor certification , meaningful use , Jason Miller
OMB, HHS create new health IT task force
New entity will be led by eight agencies, including OPM, VA and DoD. The focus will be on policy development, coordination and implementation of federal health IT.
Tags: technology , management , Peter Orszag , Kathleen Sebelius , OMB , OPM , VA , DoD , SSA , Commerce , USDA , health IT
Agencies taking different paths to transformation
NRC issued a solicitation for a variety of IT services that serves as a lynchpin to changing how it meets its mission. HHS sees open government and health care reform as the spark, while DHS continues to move toward the OneDHS concept.
Tags: technology , contracting , Darren Ash , Richard Spires , Michael Carleton , DHS , NRC , AFCEA , IT services , open government , data center consolidation , cloud computing , health care reform
OMB calls for a review of grant application systems
Risks found with Grants.gov; OMB asks for alternatives
Tags: technology , Peter Orszag , Tom Gavin , Vivek Kundra , OMB , GSA , Grants.gov , stimulus
Agencies starting to get innovation itch
Federal CTO Chopra points to HHS, DoD as examples of how departments are embracing the new concept. He says open government directive in final stages.
Tags: mngt , technology , Aneesh Chopra , OMB , DoD , transparency , open government , innovation , CTO
Two whistleblowers get 45-day stay after OSC intervention
After the Office of Special Counsel intervened on their behalf, two federal whistleblowers won a 45-day stay on personnel actions taken against them.
Tags: Franz Gayl , paul hardy , whistleblower , FDA , public health service , Marine Corps , DoD , Office of Special Counsel , Merit Systems Protection Board , workforce , Jolie Lee ,
NIEM's value expanding beyond law enforcement data sharing
Several agencies and other countries are using the The National Information Exchange Model framework to create common vocabularies for everything from orange juice production to cybersecurity and health care. Kshemendra Paul, the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, said the U.S., Mexico and Canada have signed an agreement to run pilots using standards based on NIEM for pandemic and public safety information sharing.
Tags: technology , Kshemendra Paul , Information Sharing Environment , Justice , information sharing , Jason Miller , NIEM
HHS promotes private, secure health IT
The Department of Health and Human Services wants to use information technology to give patients greater access to their own health records. The agency is proposing new rules that would allow Americans to get direct, secure, electronic access to their own test results, directly from laboratories. HHS is also creating a template for electronic personal health records. The idea is to standardize the information in simple way, similar to nutrition facts labels. HHS thinks they'll help build public trust in the systems set up by personal health record companies.
Tags: technology , Meeting Mission Goals Through Technology
Data center consolidation ahead of schedule
Agencies have stepped up the pace of their data center consolidation efforts, leading to predicted data center closures numbering well above what the Office of Management and Budget predicted earlier this year.
Tags: technology , management , OMB , cloud computing , data center consolidation , federal CIO , Vivek Kundra , virtualization , USDA , GSA , Jared Serbu
GAO: DHS, HHS threat planning can be better coordinated
Building your relationship with other agencies. Get advice from GAO's Marsha Crosse, director of Health Care Issues.
Tags: In Depth , best practices , managment , collaboration , GAO , DHS ,
