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Contract and grant transparency is 'wave of the future'
Nancy Gunderson, deputy assistant secretary for grants, acquisition policy and accountability at Health and Human Services, talks about the challenges her agency faces in contracting.
Tags: nancy gunderson , Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board , Affordable Care Act , Recovery Act , contracting , Federal Drive , grants , Michael OConnell , workforce
Agencies cut improper payments by $18 billion
Most of the fiscal 2011 reductions came from the departments of Education, Agriculture and Health and Human Services. The administration also announced new steps aimed at improving how agencies use suspension and debarment to deal with unreliable contractors and grant recipients.
Tags: improper payments , contracting , management , financial management , USDA , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid , Education , OMB , Jack Lew , Ruben Gomez
Contract will help small businesses reap health IT rewards
Ed Wilgus, senior contracting officer with the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, discusses new health IT contract.
Tags: Ed Wilgus , health IT , Health IT Day , AFCEA Bethesda , NIH
OMB, Congress to put grant-making process under more scrutiny
Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said he will hold hearings to see how to make the federal grant process more transparent. The administration merged two existing boards into a new Council on Financial Assistance Reform to improve the grant-making process. HHS awarded a $32.4 million contract for IT services for grants.gov portal.
Tags: technology , grants , OMB , James Lankford , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Jacob Lew , Danny Werfel , Grants.gov , Council on Financial Assistance Reform , GAO , Jason Miller
OPM may push telework harder in updated snow policy
The Office of Personnel Management is finalizing changes to the federal snow policy. Director John Berry won't share details yet, but he said telework shows the resiliency of government during bad weather.
Tags: telework , OPM , John Berry , Justin Johnson , USPTO , Danette Campbell , Ned Holland , technology , management , operating status , inclement weather , Emily Kopp
GAO: Agencies need more policing of contractors
Federal contractors may be getting away with fraud or shoddy work, according to a Government Accountability Office study of five years' worth of federal contracts. GAO found that most agencies are not using enforcement tools meant to cut off the flow of public funds to bad contractors.
Tags: Congress , acquisition , GAO , suspension and debarment , EPA , OMB , James Lankford , Bill Woods , nancy gunderson , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Emily Kopp
Health care reform rises to top of priority list
The reformation of the country's health care system is one of the next priorities for President Barack Obama and Congress, and the Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be at the center of this effort.
Tags: Tracking the Transition , pay and benefits , Xavier Becerra , Max Baucus , CMS , ONC , Senate Finance Committee , House Ways and Means Committee , health IT , health care
Federal Workers and Help for Haiti: Past, Present & Future
What's important now, is that, even as the United States renders extraordinary emergency assistance, we begin working on our Haitian-exit strategy. Haiti deserves more than a future where it survives, forever tied to U.S. apron strings, living from dole to dole.
Tags: columns , Lurita Doan , Haiti , State , DHS , Defense , FAA
The health of your e-health records
Health records come kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
Tags: technology , mngt , e-health ,
Stimulating e-health
E-prescriptions are getting a shot in the arm.
Tags: tech , stimulus , e-health , e-prescriptions , health care information technology
