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Agile And Acquisition - The Match.com Of Contracting?
"If you could fix hiring and buying in the federal government, you would fix 90% of it's problems," said Bryan Sivak. Sivak is the Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. Read More »
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Archimedes, HHS Align To Speed HIT Development Via Analytics
San Francisco-based healthcare modeling and analytics company Archimedes and the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have formed what they call a first-of-its-kind partnership designed to provide free and easy access to CMS synthetic claims data for any software developer – commercial, private, or individual. Read More »
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Bryan Sivak: Chief Disrupter At HHS
The term disruption is perhaps a bit overused in the technology and healthcare sectors these days, but if there is one place where it’s needed most, that just might be the federal government. Read More »
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Government Healthcare IT Plans Hinge On Open Data
Health and Human Services CTO sees big future in big health data as the government looks to expand its repository of publicly available, machine-readable data sets. Read More »
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Healthcare.gov: Code Developed By The People And For The People, Released Back To The People
This new flagship federal .gov website is "open by design, open by default." That's a huge win for the American people. Read More »
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New Healthcare.gov Is Open, CMS-Free
HHS CTO Bryan Sivak previews details and vision for relaunch of the high-profile government website Read More »
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Next Wave of Entrepreneurs Arrives at HHS to Help Tackle Major Healthcare Challenges
Today, Bryan Sivak, U.S. Department and Health and Human Services Chief Technology Officer, announced the newest cohort of HHS Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. Part of the Secretary’s Initiatives to better serve the American people, the HHS Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program matches HHS employees with external expertise to work on a high risk high reward projects over a 13-month period.
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Obamacare’s Open Source Project Lives On — Even After White House Kills It
Months before the ill fated launch of Healthcare.gov — the website built to give millions of Americans access to affordable health care — government officials were already describing it as something special. Read More »
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Patients Matter Most, But Technology Matters A Lot
Computing practices that used to be religated to experimental outposts are now taking up residence at the center of the health care field. From natural language processing to machine learning to predictive modeling, you see people promising at the health data forum (Health Datapalooza IV) to do it in production environments. Read More »
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Sivak Named New HHS CTO
The Department of Health and Human Services has named Bryan Sivak as the department’s next chief technology officer.
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U.S., U.K. to collaborate on health IT, data projects
HHS and health authorities in the United Kingdom agreed to collaborate on a broad scope of health information technology and health data projects and practices. Read More »
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US and UK working to strengthen use of health IT for better patient care
As the use of health information technology (health IT) grows in both the United States and the United Kingdom, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.K. Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt today signed a bi-lateral agreement for the use and sharing of health IT information and tools. The agreement strengthens efforts to cultivate and increase the use of health IT tools and information designed to help improve the quality and efficiency of the delivery of health care in both countries.
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Why Did Healthcare.gov's Source Code Mysteriously Vanish From Public View?
One of the few trouble-free areas on Healthcare.gov is the site's front end — the information pages where visitors can learn about health plans available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In contrast to the glitchy backend systems that have prevented many of the more than 14 million visitors from shopping for health insurance the past two weeks, [these pages...] were built on open-source code. Now, that code doesn't appear to be so open. Read More »
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World Health Care Congress: HHS CTO, Premier CIO Talk Data Liquidity
This week’s 10th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C., saw a lively discussion April 9 involving a panel of experts on innovation, including Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Joe Pleasant Jr., senior vice president and CIO of the Premier health alliance. Read More »
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