In a provocative op-ed piece, Jarle Breivik, a professor of medicine at the University of Oslo, takes aim at the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative announced earlier this year by President Obama. Nice try, he concedes -- but the reality is: "We’re a lot better at fighting cancer. We just can’t cure it." Is this stereotypical Norwegian pessimism or just some badly needed Scandinavian bluntness? Dr. Breivik points out that cancer is fundamentally a disease of aging, and none of us is getting any younger. All our efforts to improve lifespan end up putting us at risk of living long enough that we'll get some form of cancer...
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Federal CIO Outlines Next Steps
J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | February 21, 2013
With Obama's first term in the rearview mirror, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel is looking for ways to continue to improve federal IT even in the face of looming budget cuts. Read More »
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Federal Government's First Innovator Advocates Database Jujitsu
Michael del Castillo | Upstart Business Journal | September 24, 2012
He goes by many names. By some he is called the federal government’s tech entrepreneur in residence. To others, he is the chief technology officer of the United States. And yet sometimes he goes simply by Park, Todd Park (you know, like Bond). He's the guy who, this past weekend, spoke about hacking government data to use it in ways the government itself may never otherwise consider. Read More »
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Federal Investments Caused 'Real Harm' To Emerging Tech, Former Official Says
Josh Smith | Nextgov | October 11, 2012
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 Records Must Go Digital, But Managers Say They Can't Do It Without More Resources
Joseph Marks | Nextgov | December 19, 2013
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 Regulators Issue Proposed Rules That Would Kill Open And Equal Internet Access
Steven Rosenfeld | San Diego Free Press | May 17, 2014
The Federal Communication Commission has begun to kill the Internet as most people know it, adopting proposed rules Thursday to create a caste system allowing the giant Internet service providers to segregate users by delivery speeds and ability to pay...
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Federal Source Code Policy Requires Agencies To Share Code
Nathan Eddy | Information Week | August 9, 2016
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 ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeking Direct Access To Americans’ Private Medical Records
Barbara Hollingsworth | CNSNews.com | May 20, 2014
The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase, a public health nurse and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom.
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Feds To Alaskans: No Road For Humans, Lots Of Land For Animals
Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News | February 26, 2014
In one of Alaska's most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport. Read More »
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Feds Well-Represented On Innovator List
Staff Writer | FCW | November 6, 2012
What do federal CIO Steven VanRoekel, CTO Todd Park, the State Department's Alec Ross, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Issa staffer Seamus Kraft, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's advisor Matt Lira, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips, and President Barack Obama have in common? Read More »
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Fewer Moonshots, More Walks
By Kim Bellard | June 1, 2016
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For Many, Obama's Promise Of Health Care Choice Does Not Ring True
Laura Koran | CNN | October 31, 2013
In her grilling on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reiterated a frequent assertion in the Obamacare sales pitch --- consumers have options when shopping for insurance plans on the health care exchanges.
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ForgeRock Announces FederalConnect Solution To Accelerate The Rollout Of Digital Citizen Services In Support Of President Obama's Mandate
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ForgeRock |
November 3, 2014
ForgeRock Inc., the leading open platform provider of Identity Relationship Management (IRM) solutions, today announced the availability of ForgeRock® FederalConnect™, a new solution that allows federal agencies to accelerate rollout of digital citizen services that integrate with the Federal Cloud Credential eXchange (FCCX)...
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Forget The Sony Hack, This Could Be The Biggest Cyber Attack Of 2015
Patrick Tucker | Defense One | December 19, 2014
...[A]ccording to cyber-security professionals, the Sony hack may be a prelude to a cyber attack on United States infrastructure that could occur in 2015, as a result of a very different, self-inflicted document dump from the Department of Homeland Security in July...
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Genomics and Precision Medicine Pioneer Jonathan Rothberg to Deliver Connected Health Conference Keynote on Transforming Healthcare with Semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence
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Personal Connected Health Alliance |
October 26, 2016
The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance) today announced that genomics and precision medicine pioneer, Jonathan Rothberg, MS, MPhil, and PhD, will deliver a keynote presentation at the Connected Health Conference on Monday morning, December 12, 2016. Rothberg's keynote will focus on the integration of novel medical devices with deep learning and cloud computing to transform and democratize healthcare...
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Global Push to Guarantee Health Coverage Leaves U.S. Behind
Noam N. Levey | Los Angeles Times | May 12, 2012
Even as Americans debate whether to scrap President Obama's healthcare law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction — to provide medical insurance to all citizens.
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