Grants.gov needs to streamline, simplify: GAO
The high-profile Web portal project still lacks standardization and is inefficiently run, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
VA drops Peaches 3 plan for governmentwide vehicle
The Veterans Affairs Department has dropped plans for its next-generation departmentwide contract to purchase hardware and software and instead will use NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract vehicle.
House passes health IT bill
The Health Information Technology Promotion Act aims to accelerate the use of health IT to improve efficiencies, reduce medical errors, improve quality of care and provide better information for patients and their providers.
OMB updates financial-reporting guidance
The Office of Management and Budget has updated guidance for governmentwide financial reporting required under OMB Circular A-136.
CMS grants to help modernize state Medicaid systems
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will fund states a total of $150 million to help them transform their Medicaid systems to increase quality and efficiency of care.
Docs hasten move to e-health records: CDC
Nearly one in four physicians, or 23.9 percent, reported using full or partial electronic medical records in their office practice in 2005.
CMS testing personal health records
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is testing the feasibility of integrating Medicare claims history information with other agency Internet-based tools to provide personal health records for Medicare beneficiaries.
Scam exploits Treasury e-payment system
The IRS is warning taxpayers about a new e-mail scam that uses the Treasury Department's Electronic Federal Tax Payment System as a hook to lure individuals into disclosing their personal information.
Report: E-prescribing can reduce drug injuries
The use of electronic prescribing by physicians could avoid many of the 1.5 million annual preventable drug injuries, according to the Institute of Medicine.
OMB sets one-hour data breach rule
With the deluge of recent data breaches, the Office of Management and Budget is pushing agencies toward stricter IT security accountability. Agencies now have a clear standard for reporting all incidents and a comprehensive definition of personally identifiable information.
IRS lends a hand to FinCEN's tracking efforts
The IRS is rescuing a fellow Treasury Department bureau after a major data-sharing project fell prey to management problems.
First set of certified e-health records available
The first set of certified electronic health record systems became available this week under the Health and Human Services Department's health IT efforts.
VA general counsel resigns
Veterans Affairs Department general counsel Tim McClain has resigned, effective Sept. 1, to return to the private sector.
Edwin Wagner Jr. | More than a numbers game
Edwin Wagner Jr. leads the project management office that plans to revolutionize how the Census Bureau collects data for its once-a-decade population count.
Bill would transform VA cybersecurity
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee has drafted legislation to accelerate improvements in information security at the beleaguered Veterans Affairs Department.
FinCEN contributed to BSA Direct problems: GAO
Issues that started at the project management level continued and compounded, and were not addressed at the executive level, the Government Accountability Office said in a report about its review of FinCEN's BSA Direct retrieval and sharing system.
No loss of data from VA, USDA breaches
The Veterans Affairs and Agriculture departments have determined that sensitive personal data was not accessed in recent incidents of data threats at both agencies.
IRS pays out millions in fraudulent refunds
The federal government has lost as much as $300 million in improper refunds because the contractor developing a Web-based fraud detection system for the IRS failed to deliver it on time.
IRS names Gonzalez acting CIO
The IRS named Arthur Gonzalez acting CIO as of July 7, the same day then-CIO Todd Grams left the tax agency, an agency spokeswoman said.
FinCEN cancels BSA Direct contract
The project repeatedly missed program milestones and performance objectives during its two years of existence, almost doubling in cost.
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