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Federal Health Officials Call For New Quality Measurement Framework
Federal health officials are calling for a new framework in quality measurement, as the U.S. healthcare system prepares for what is hoped to be a new era of accountability. Read More »
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Federal Investments Caused 'Real Harm' To Emerging Tech, Former Official Says
While there is broad support for government research funding, the Obama administration's willingness to step in as a commercial partner with certain businesses has caused "real harm" to emerging technology programs, according to a former administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Read More »
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Federal IT Budget To Increase In 2014
Federal IT spending will increase nearly 2%, to $82 billion, in the fiscal 2014 budget submitted by the White House on Wednesday. It's the first significant increase in federal IT spending in four years. Read More »
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Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case To Proceed
A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government's latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) long-running challenge to the government's illegal dragnet surveillance programs. Today's ruling means the allegations at the heart of the Jewel case move forward under the supervision of a public federal court. Read More »
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Federal Records Must Go Digital, But Managers Say They Can't Do It Without More Resources
Nearly half of federal records managers believe the Obama administration’s goals for making all new records digital and electronically searchable by 2019 is unrealistic, a new study has found. Read More »
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Federal Source Code Policy Requires Agencies To Share Code
The objective behind the White House's Federal Source Code policy is to ensure all agencies make custom-developed source code available for re-use across government. The aim is to make the government work more like developers in the private sector and to encourage sharing and collaboration. The White House officially released its Federal Source Code policy on Aug. 8, designed to support improved access to custom software code developed by or for the US government...
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Federal Spending Bill Expands Research Funding With Open Access Mandate, Restores IMLS Funding
The omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Obama on January 17 has plenty of wrinkles and details, but one of them is a change that expands the number of federal agencies operating under a mandate to make research they fund available to the public after one year. Read More »
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Federal Testing Reveals CONNECT 3.3 Dramatically Improves Code Quality
CONNECT 3.3 was the first major release of the CONNECT software in more than 18 months. In creating the release, the CONNECT product team worked diligently to deliver a highly-scalable, quality product that could also serve as a viable option for large and small organizations wanting to set up standards-based health information exchange. Read More »
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FedOSS: Creating Open Source Communities
FedScoop’s Luke Fretwell and Red Hat U.S. Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Gunnar Hellekson discuss the latest in federal government open source software. Read More »
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FedPod: IT Update With VA CTO Peter Levin
Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin gives a VA IT update and discusses OSEHRA, Blue Button and open source software. Read More »
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Feds Asked Aaron Swartz's Friends About His 'Guerilla Open Access Manifesto,' A Call For Liberating Data From Private Hands
The U.S. Secret Service released the first 104 pages of the federal government's 14,500-page file on Aaron Swartz, the internet activist and MIT fellow who committed suicide after being charged in both federal and state court with hacking and fraud. Read More »
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Feds Go Overboard In Prosecuting Information Activist
Violate website terms of use and you too could be a felon. Read More »
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Feds Look to Automate Blue Button
The federal government is launching an initiative to make the increasingly popular Blue Button patient portal feature more automated. The goal is to provide patients with more ease and choices for securely downloading and transmitting their personal health information. Read More »
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Feds Look to Big Data to Position 'Government as a Platform'
Just as the federal government has been working to hasten its shift to cloud computing over the past few years, senior technology officials are now seeking to advance a framework for the government's approach to the challenges and opportunities presented by big data.
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Feds Move Into Digital Medicine, Face Doctor Backlash
"Physicians passionately despise their electronic health records," says Lexington, Ky., emergency physician Steven Stack, the American Medical Association's president-elect. "We use technology quickly when it works … Electronic health records don't work right now."
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