People

HHS taps Navy's Wah for health IT post

Wah, associate CIO of the Military Health System, is one of five interim managers.

Digital Government

Latitudes and longitudes

The U.S. health care community is not alone in its struggles with privacy, standards and other challenges to the health information technology agenda

People

At home in the DISA Louisiana megacenter

The megacenter has not been processing a lot of data, but it has housed 120 hurricane evacuees and served 360 meals a day.

People

Physicians' e-mails document post-Katrina horrors

Providing care in hurricane-battered areas was compounded by shortfalls in the National Disaster Medical System.

Digital Government

Diabetes monitoring reaches new levels

In the United States and abroad, health care professionals have started to wield information technology to identify, treat and manage patients with diabetes.

Digital Government

U.K. completes major engineering work for health IT system

National Health Service hopes to fully deploy medical imaging system within two years.

Digital Government

Gov. Warner: IT needed to cut Medicaid costs

The federal government needs to invest significantly more in health technology to keep the system from bankrupting states.

People

Leavitt: Katrina demonstrates need for e-health records

Most people displaced by Hurricane Katrina have no medical records, making it difficult for clinicians working in disaster medical centers to treat them, the HHS secretary says.

Modernization

DOD satellite systems boost Gulf cell coverage

In an unusual step, the Pentagon is using military satellite systems to help improve cell phone coverage in the Gulf Coast states.

Modernization

HHS seeks volunteers for Katrina disaster relief

The agency has created a Web site for medical professionals and IT and communications personnel with experience in health care IT who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts.

Modernization

Carriers scramble to restore Gulf Coast mobile phone coverage

Wireless companies dispatch mobile units to restore lost service in storm-struck region.

People

Navy sends understaffed hospital ship to ravaged Gulf Coast

The USNS Comfort will sail Saturday with only enough medical personnel to staff 250 of the ship's 1,000 hospital beds.

Modernization

DHS, Navy and MCI deploy mobile command posts to Gulf Coast

Mobile communications vans are being deployed to the hurricane battered Gulf Coast to fill in telecom gaps.

People

DISA marshals support for Katrina relief operations

The agency is sending satellite communications resources to the Gulf Coast.

Modernization

New Orleans radio system flooded

State police bar entry of radio repair technicians to city.

Digital Government

Battery-operated radio systems aid Katrina relief efforts

The National Interagency Fire Center is sending two-way radios that can run without commercial power to areas where public safety systems have been knocked out by Hurricane Katrina.

Modernization

DOD, Coast Guard deploy satcom systems to Gulf Coast

Agencies provide much needed communications in wake of Hurricane Katrina.

People

DISA Louisiana megacenter closed in wake of hurricane

The Defense Information Systems Agency said its data processing megacenter in Slidell, La., will be closed until this Friday in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

People

DOD Health seeks new database for 8.9 million patients

Pentagon wants to convert its scheduling and registration system to a new database technology.

People

Army systems to support Katrina disaster relief

The Army has deployed three disaster coordination teams equipped with satellite communications to help relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.