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Site offers point-and-click help for teachers
The Education Department on Thursday unveiled an online tool designed to help teachers quickly sift through the thousands of education resources available on the World Wide Web and select the best one for their students.
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Calm under pressure
Clay Hollister knows how to manage emergencies. Hollister, the chief information officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, received his toughest lesson in crisis management when he and his family were taken hostage by the Palestinian Liberation Army during the civil war in Lebannon. In 19
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FEMA updates hazard software
An updated version of disasterloss estimation software developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is available to help emergencyresponse officials nationwide better prepare for and recover from earthquakes. FEMA last month released HAZUS99 a new version of its Hazards US software pro
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Urban Renewal
To look at the Edgewood Terrace community in Northeast Washington, D.C., with its bright colors, extensive, ongoing construction and hightech gloss, you would never know that less than a decade ago the same area was known as Little Beirut. The primary economic activity thriving in the povertystri
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Database to track health care fraud
Beginning today, public and private agencies involved in health care services must report any convictions or judgments against them to a new database designed to curtail health care fraud and abuse. The new Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank will contain the following information on heal
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States share Medicaid fraud funding woes
Members of a congressional panel this month listened to repeated tales of inadequate funding and antiquated technology preventing numerous state Medicaid agencies from effectively combating fraud cases that result in billions of dollars lost nationally each year. Some state Medicaid agencies are cr
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Web Site Provides a Clearinghouse for Tobacco Data
A World Wide Web site unveiled Thursday will enable users to conduct searches of more than 27 million tobacco industry documents from one centralized source. Donna Shalala, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, made the announcement in conjunction with the Great American Smokeout.
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Cancer Institute Revamps Web Site
The National Cancer Institute unveiled its redesigned CancerNet World Wide Web site today, with easier navigation and enhancements for firsttime users, including an expanded dictionary of cancer terms and a publications locator.
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HCFA to launch Y2K awareness week
The Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency that manages Medicare, announced last week that it has designated Nov. 1520 as National Medicare Year 2000 Testing Week, enabling health care providers to evaluate their billing systems in an endtoend test with Medicare systems. Althou
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HCFA plans national Medicare Y2K testing week
The Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency in charge of Medicare, today announced that it has designated Nov. 1520 as National MedicareYear 2000 Testing Week, enabling health care providers to evaluate their billing systems in an endtoend test with Medicare systems.
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The fire next time
For weeks this fall the U.S. Forest Service battled a fire across California terrain so rugged that firefighters could do little more than keep its raging flames from spreading. Ultimately, firefighters held back the blaze, using for the first time technology, rather than hoses, as their weapon of
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North Carolina Judges CourtFlow a Success
North Carolina is one of the few states in which criminal superior court judges rotate from district to district, forcing courtroom clerks in the state's 100 counties to be extraordinarily fast and accurate with the forms that require a judge's signature before a ruling can be enforced. Despite the
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Communities
Va. Adopts Seat Management Strategy Virginia recently became the first state to adopt a plan to outsource the management of desktop computers at all levels of government. Virginia's Council of Technology Services has been working on the state's groundbreaking plan since November 1998 and now is wo
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FEMA server managing hurricane data crashes
A server that the Federal Emergency Management Agency uses to process human services data related to the recent destruction caused by Hurricane Floyd crashed late last week. The agency brought the server back up during the weekend with minimal disruption to the relief process, according to the agency's chief information officer.
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HHS completes successful Y2K test
The Department of Health and Human Services today declared several missioncritical computer systems ready for the Year 2000 date change, including systems affecting the nation's largest grant disbursement system, welfare and children's programs, and health services.
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Medicare, managed care organizations behind on Y2K work
Many of the nation's Medicare providers and managed care organizations have not taken the necessary steps to ensure their computer systems will be Year 2000compliant, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Communities
Texas Speeders Pay Fines Via Net Texas traffic offenders are racing to use ECourt Inc.'s new online court payment system
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Internet takes new role in organ donor program
As part of a national program to increase the number of people registering to be organ donors, the Department of Health and Human Services last month awarded a $900,000 grant to a Michiganbased health organization to take a 4yearold World Wide Web site that provides background information about
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CDC and ATSDR Y2K-Compliant
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that it has successfully completed an endtoend Year 2000 test at the agency and at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and their partners.
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Sharing map data moves closer
In a significant step toward integrating the incompatible and disparate geospatial databases worldwide, a geospatial industry group demonstrated this month how industry standards nearing completion will enable users to tap into numerous databases via the Internet to create a multilayered digital ma
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