VA names supervisor for CIO's office
Veterans Affairs Department secretary James Nicholson named Robert Howard as supervisor of the Office of Information and Technology, effective today.
Even with Brailer set to leave, health IT efforts locked in
The next national health IT coordinator will likely have it easier than outgoing coordinator David Brailer, who shaped the position from scratch, initially with no funding, to lead the federal effort to promote electronic health records.
IRS modernization budget needs more funding
Two organizations that monitor the IRS agree that the tax agency's Business Systems Modernization should receive more funding than what the administration has proposed so the program can move forward faster.
FDA bar code rule for drugs takes effect
The Food and Drug Administration's requirements for bar codes on the labels of thousands of drugs and biological products took effect today as part of an agency effort to improve patient safety.
Online extra | Federal Health Architecture gets Version 1.0 ready for release
The Federal Health Architecture, established in June 2003 as a Line of Business, aims to align federal health IT investments with the president's health IT plan.
Bush names Education CFO
President Bush intends to nominate Lawrence Warder of Irving, Texas, to be chief financial officer at the Education Department.
HHS expects new health IT czar by summer
The Health and Human Services Department anticipates naming a new national coordinator for health IT by the end of summer, said David Brailer, the outgoing first national coordinator for health IT.
Cadenas gets added VA responsibilities
The Veterans Affairs Department has named Pedro Cadenas Jr. acting deputy CIO and acting deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Information Technology, effective April 30.
OPM uses its buying power to support health IT
The Office of Personnel Management is pushing the adoption of health IT from the inside. With the weight of its 8 million-member Federal Employee Health Benefits program behind it, OPM earlier this month said it will make the implementation of health technology'including electronic health records, e-prescribing and linking disease management to health IT'part of the performance plans for its contracted carriers. The change will take two to four years, officials said.
OPM promotes health IT for its carriers
The Office of Personnel Management told its contracted carriers today that adoption of health IT requirements will be an element of its plan performance review within the next two to four years.
Auditors say IRS is on top of business systems development costs
Auditors typically uncover a list of problems in their investigations of agency projects. But in the case of the IRS' business systems development organization, they came up empty.
SEC has failed to fix security gaps, GAO says
Report says information security weaknesses persist because the agency has not followed through on GAO's recommendations.
OMB sidelines two rules on interagency transactions
The Office of Management and Budget temporarily set aside two business rules related to how agencies make payments and conduct transactions with each other because the rules caused unintended confusion.
Health IT gets into gear
David Brailer is a doctor by trade, but as the national coordinator for health IT, he is proving to be more of an engineer.
Under pressure, VA management begins IT reorg
The Veterans Affairs Department's CIO officially began to take over control of IT operations and maintenance late last month, despite resistance from agency top management.
Census awards $600m field data contract for the 2010 count
The Census Bureau today awarded Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., the five-year, $600 million Field Data Collection Automation project contract. The field data project will integrate the multiple automated systems required to obtain data securely and efficiently for the 2010 Census.
CIO critical to Medicare modernization to retire
Dean Mesterharm, CIO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will retire at the end of April after having set the agency on a course to IT modernization.
VA gets IT reorganization under way
The Veterans Affairs Department today launched its controversial IT reorganization, which transfers to the department CIO control of the IT budget, operations and maintenance.
Bill to give feds electronic health records gathers support
Federal employees could be the largest group to test the advantages an electronic health record could provide, according to Rep. Jon Porter, who is sponsoring a bill to make the government a chief user of this technology.
VA CIO resigns over pace of IT change
Veterans Affairs Department CIO Robert McFarland has often referred to his job at VA as that of a change agent. But with VA's leadership not moving fast enough for him on IT reorganization, McFarland has resigned effective April 30.
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