Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers are now included in the Centers for Medicaid and hospital quality based on what matters most to patients -- the outcomes of care. Read More »

The Cabinet Office has chosen a proprietary software system to implement the keystone of its policy to create a level playing field for open source. Read More »

If you thought that unlocking cars via SMS was the definition of nefarious, think again: at the Black Hat security conference, security researcher Jerome Radcliffe has detailed how our use of SCADA insulin pumps, pacemakers, and implanted defibrillators Read More »

I recently posted a blog entry,  Healthcare is Different, examining the ways that healthcare differs from  other businesses. Numerous folks sent me email agreeing and disagreeing with my points. Here's a compilation of some additional ways that my readers suggested healthcare is Read More »

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has formalized its burgeoning social media empire by announcing a policy on how VA employees should use these online platforms. According to a press release, the policy "allows the Department and its employees to leverage emerging platforms that enhance communication, stakeholder outreach, and information exchange." Read More »

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is testing the use of certain metadata standards in pilots with Indiana and Montana through the state health information exchange program. Read More »

The Obama administration announced this week it will provide loans to more than 1,300 critical access hospitals (CAHs) to buy software and hardware systems that will support efforts to raise the quality of care at these hospitals. Read More »

Earlier this month, Vivek Kundra stepped down from his position as the first federal chief information officer after a two-year tenure during which he began applying industry lessons in managing information technology to the federal sector. Read More »

Federal agencies haven't done enough to measure the extent of public participation resulting from their open government plans or to calculate what impact that public participation is having on agency decisions, according to an industry report released Monday. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs has requested $3.2 billion in its IT budget submission for FY 2012. Each investment in the budget request is assigned a sub-function classification based on the program's purpose as it relates to overall IT and federal government operations. Read More »