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Officials Aren’t Counting The Growing Cost Of Online Obamacare Fraud
Don't ask the federal government how much money citizens are losing to Obamacare Internet scams. Tracking the dollars stolen through fake exchanges and other sites that prey on insurance applicants apparently is not under the administration's jurisdiction. Read More »
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Officials Tackling Backlog At VA
Tim Susengill calls it his “in-the-cracks letter.” He sends it to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever a local veteran spends more than a year waiting for a response to a medical claim. [...] Read More »
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Officials Worry About Vulnerability Of Global Nuclear Stockpile To Cyber Attack
Senators requested a national intelligence assessment of foreign nations’ abilities to protect their nuclear weapons from digital strikes after the Pentagon's chief cyber officer said he does not know whether China, Russia or other nuclear powers, aside from the United States, have effective safeguards in place. Read More »
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Officials, Industry Preparing For More Mobile Government
[Steven VanRoekel is] now spearheading an effort to modernize the government’s technology, pushing to make more information available to citizens and allow its employees to do more work on the go. But moving the federal government to tablets, smartphones and applications isn’t as simple as signing a cellphone contract or building a 99-cent app. Read More »
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Oh Look, Rep. Mike Rogers Wife Stands To Benefit Greatly From CISPA Passing...
It would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of interest that calls into serious question the entire bill. It would appear that Rogers' wife stands to benefit quite a lot from the passage of CISPA, and has helped in the push to get the bill passed... Read More »
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Ohio Dept. Of Insurance: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Health Premiums By 88 Percent
Democrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. [But...] Ohio Department of Insurance announced that, based on the rates submitted by insurers to date, the average individual-market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, “representing an increase of 88 percent”.... Read More »
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Ohloh Wants to Fill the Gap Left by Google Code Search
Google Code Search, introduced in 2006 was meant to make it easy to search for open source code no matter where it’s stored, but Google recently pulled the plug on the service this year. The team at Black Duck hopes its recently relaunched Ohloh site will fill that gap. Read More »
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OHSU, Intel Partner On Genetics
Oregon Health & Science University and Intel Corp. are teaming up to develop next-generation computing technologies that advance the field of personalized medicine by dramatically increasing the speed, precision and cost-effectiveness of analyzing a patient's individual genetic profile. Read More »
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OIG: Medicare Could Have Saved $910M On Lab Tests
Medicare could have saved $910 million--38 percent--on lab test payments if it would have paid providers at the lowest established rate in each geographic area, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General. Read More »
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OIG: Medicare Provider Databases Need Better Management
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General is recommending improvements to management of the agency’s two Medicare provider databases. Read More »
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Ok Chatbot: What Is Your Value for Humanitarians?
Whether or not you are aware of it, you have probably interacted with a chatbot – whether checking your finances, making a travel reservation, or even ordering a pizza. But what opportunities exist to use chatbots to assist humanitarians and development practitioners? Chatbots are conversational computer programs that can read message questions, interpret responses, and perform actions or make decisions, without any assistance from a live person on the other end...
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OK Festival: What Is Open Development?
On the third day of the Open Development and Open Knowledge Festival, I spent the entire day in the Open Development track (on Twitter #OpenDev). The first session was an open discussion and debate about what ‘openness’ can add to traditional development approaches, trying to explore different visions. Read More »
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Oldest Open-Source Software Kept By Army
Since 1938, the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., was the center for the United States Army's research efforts in ballistics and vulnerability/lethality analysis. That remained the case until 1992, when BRL was disestablished and its mission, personnel and facilities were incorporated into the newly created U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Read More »
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Oldies But Goodies: Seven Projects Still Rocking Open Source
We all get excited about the latest hot open source projects like CloudStack and Boot to Gecko — they’re new and exciting and the possibilities seem endless. But what about the many long-running projects that have been core to the world of open source for decades? The ones that have truly stood the test of time? Read More »
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OMB Okays VA, DoD iEHR Data-Sharing Plan
During a July 10 joint hearing of the House Veterans Affairs and Armed Services Committees, VA and Defense Department officials laid out plans to continue pursuing two separate electronic health record solutions with the ability to interoperate in the "near term." Read More »
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