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Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape

Tags: John Kerry , State , management , nomination , VA , Eric Shinseki , Kathleen Sebelius , Eric Holder , DoJ

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Survey: PIOs turn focus to quality, not quantity

Performance improvements officers say agencies are getting better at the measuring part — using data to driver better performance. Overall, 71 percent of agency PIOs who responded to an exclusive Federal News Radio survey said their agency makes good use of performance data.

Tags: Matthew Piester , PIO survey , management , best practices , In Depth , Francis Rose , Jack Moore

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$5B in government recoveries on false claims cases

The Justice Department has recovered a record $5 billion in the past year from companies that filed false claims against the government. Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West said Tuesday that the federal False Claims Act is the most powerful tool in the government's legal arsenal for protecting the integrity of government programs, such as Medicare and defense contracting.

Tags: Justice , false claims , Tony West , False Claims Act

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Baitman starts HHS commodity consolidation effort with HR systems

Frank Baitman, the HHS chief information officer, said the agency will move its HR systems to a shared services provider in the coming year. He said HHS also will issue a solicitation for cloud services in 2013.
November 15, 2012

Tags: technology , Frank Baitman , PortfolioStat , cloud computing , Yammer , collaboration , shared services , vendor management organizations , Jason Miller , Ask the CIO

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Cutting healthcare costs

Accenture's Marcia DeFalco and Rod Benson from Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney, will talk about an upcoming event that focuses on reducing Healthcare IT costs.
October 30, 2012

Tags: technology , Healthcare IT , HiMSS , electronic health records , big data , mobile , Marcia DeFalco , Accenture , Rod Benson , Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney , Agile software development , IDIQs , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk

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Derecho helped HHS prepare for Sandy's wrath

Frank Baitman, the CIO at the Department of Health and Human Services, said his agency applied lessons from this summer's Derecho as it prepared for the storm hitting the region this week. He said HHS tested and fixed server fail-over problems.

Tags: management , technology , Frank Baitman , Hurricane Sandy , data center , continuity of operations , telework , Jason Miller

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Customer satisfaction with e-government down slightly but near record highs

Satisfaction with federal e-government sites remained high throughout most of 2012, according to a quarterly report from ForeSee and the American Customer Satisfaction Index. On a 100-point scale, customer satisfaction with federal websites now sits at 75.3. That's actually down slightly from last quarter, which had set an all-time high, according to the latest report.

Tags: ForeSee , ACSI , e-government , customer satisfaction , SSA , federal websites , Jack Moore

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Affordable Care Act gives CMS shared services a shot in the arm

Agency CIO Tony Trenkle said CMS is building the foundation for four enterprisewide applications, including identity management and an enterprise portal.
October 18, 2012

Tags: technology , CMS , Tony Trenkle , Affordable Care Act , shared services , identity management , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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Technology drives advancements at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Having an intuitive technology platform allows the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to have a constructive relationship with other agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services, Director Carolyn Clancy tells Federal News Radio's Agency of the Month show.

Tags: Carolyn Clancy , AHRQ , Agency of the Month , technology , collaboration

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Federal Drive interviews - Oct. 12, 2012

Nobel Prize winner David Wineland of NIST discusses his accomplishments. And a contingent of large federal buildings might be getting a makeover. The National Capital Planning Commission shares plans the GSA is considering.

Tags: David Wineland , NIST , Rebecca Spitzgo , Ed Zurndorfer , pay and benefits , Diane Sullivan , National Capital Planning Commission , Chris OConnors , NOAA , Federal Drive

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