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New Labor site helps Katrina victims find employment
The Labor Department unveiled an expanded Web site to assist those displaced by Hurricane Katrina find new jobs.
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Oracle gets CRM capabilities with Siebel purchase
Analysts are predicting Oracle Corp. will increase its footprint in the federal IT market through an agreement to buy customer relationship management provider Siebel Systems Inc. for $5.85 billion.
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By standing still, FirstGov slips in Web rankings
Firstgov’s drop in the rankings by Brown University were attributed to its failure to add new features.
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Lessons learned: NASA patch management
In little more than a year, NASA managed to deploy an automated patch management system that now covers more than 80,000 devices, about 94 percent of the space agency’s computers.
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Is this thing on? (tap, tap)
It started as a hobbyist technology and recently found a foothold at forward-thinking federal agencies.
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IRS to e-filers: Use approved encryption
The IRS has directed e-file program participants who transmit directly to the agency’s Electronic Management System to use only IRS-approved encryption methods for the 2006 and subsequent filing seasons.
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OPM, VA push standards from the purse
The administration’s biggest ally in getting doctors’ offices and hospitals to use electronic health records just might be under its own control.
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Operation health IT
A consumer in the not-too-distant future will go to a drug store and pick up a prescribed medicine, knowing that the pharmacist has received an electronic order from a physician.
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Local terminologies pose barriers to change
They’ve all agreed to drive on the right side of the road, but to implement the change gradually.
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Senate should up 2006 e-gov, Census funding: White House
Senate plans to reduce requested Census Bureau 2006 funding would suspend the American Community Survey and increase the cost of the next decennial census, according to a Statement of Administration Policy.
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Financially Sound
More driven by federal policy than technology, recent developments in financial software for government are closely tracking high-level directives that emphasize lines of business, strategic plans and project portfolios instead of next week’s payroll or overdue payables.
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Justice submits its security tool as the standard for every agency to follow
Using a homegrown accountability client, the Justice Department is attempting to become a Center of Excellence for the Cybersecurity Line of Business Consolidation initiative.
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Commentary: Demonstrating the potential, closing barriers for health IT
Modern health care is fundamentally an information-based activity. So, in the 21st century, it is surprising how little IT has penetrated the health care sector.
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Thinking nationally, starting locally
Several states already have taken steps toward establishing local health information infrastructures.
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CMS builds a model for health e-records
Most doctors have no idea how to implement an electronic health records system and have little trust that the federal government does either.
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Agency IT provides relief after Katrina
As Hurricane Katrina pounded the buildings and flooded the streets of New Orleans, the medical staff from the New Orleans VA Medical Center—located near the Superdome—didn't have to worry about lugging thousands of patient folders to higher ground.
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NARA chooses Lockheed for ERA system
The National Archives and Records Administration is blazing a path for how the government will store, maintain and make available electronic records.
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Agencies, OMB get security provisions in writing
One of the first steps Lisa Schlosser, the new CIO of the Housing and Urban Development Department, is taking to improve cybersecurity is to get it in writing—by including baseline security requirements in all contracts.
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FEMA to adjust IE-only Web site
The Homeland Security Department’s Federal Emergency Management Agency is retooling its Web site for disaster aid applications so that it won’t require the use of Windows-based PCs running Microsoft’s Internet browser.
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The Podcast Toolbox
If you’re prepared to start adding podcasts to your agency’s communications programs, there’s plenty of software available.
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