IRS walks fine line on modernization cost, schedule, budget: GAO
The IRS is trying to balance getting its Business Systems Modernization projects delivered on time and within cost on a lean budget, while meeting additional congressional mandates for performance accountability to gain access to its funds.
Social Security awards contracts for HSPD-12 applications
The Social Security Administration has awarded a contract to Probaris Technologies Inc. of Philadelphia to support the agency's HSPD-12 implementation project.
Government, large employers will aid consumer push to health IT
Consumer demands are driving change in 21st-century health care, but it is the purchasing power of government and corporations that will be the ultimate change agent.
ERP's learning curve
Agencies heed the lessons of past, high-profile failures
Health IT vendors to apply for certification in April
The Health and Human Services Department's effort to certify electronic health records will accelerate in early April when health IT vendors can begin applying to have their products tested.
Health IT privacy efforts to launch in April
The privacy element of the Health and Human Services Department's health IT efforts will launch in late April with the award of contracts to study the variations in state privacy and security policies and regulations that may hinder electronic exchange of information.
RHIOs included in federal health IT efforts
The Health and Human Services Department will release a request for proposals within a few weeks for an assessment of state regional health information organizations to be included in the national health IT effort.
CMS awards $430.3 million in Medicare claims contracts
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded four companies a total of $430.3 million in contracts to process Medicare claims from suppliers of durable medical equipment.
Agencies gear up for deadlines on internal controls
OMB is requiring under its revised Circular A-123 that agencies implement internal controls, and be able to document them and ensure their effectiveness in a management assurance statement to be submitted by June 30.
DOD to test advanced e-prescribing system
This summer the Defense Department will test its new electronic pharmacy system, which will centralize and automate more of the electronic prescribing process than the current patchwork of systems and databases.
Civilian agencies see small increases in fiscal '07 IT budget
Most civilian, non-security agencies will see only single-digit budget increases under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget proposal.
PMA fuels improved financial management: OMB
Agencies have speeded up completion of financial statements, accomplished more clean audits and strengthened internal controls, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
Health IT leaders set an aggressive schedule
Pilots for e-health records, e-prescribing part of year-end plan
Most of NFC's IT crew return to Big Easy
Living out of a silver FEMA trailer in his driveway, National Finance Center director Jerry Lohfink returned to work at his New Orleans office last month.
Agencies make headway in reducing improper payments
Federal agencies cut $7.8 billion from improper payments, reducing the total of payments made in error or to the wrong persons by 17 percent last year, according to a new OMB report.
Treasury awards $15 million validation contract
The Treasury Department has awarded a $15 million contract to G&B Solutions Inc. of McLean, Va., to provide independent verification and validation support services to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
DOD to expand e-health record system functionality
The Defense Department is adding functionality to its new Web-based electronic health record system, even as it continues rolling it out to military facilities around the world.
Financial crime fighter Fox resigns
The Treasury Department announces that William Fox, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, will leave the agency Friday for a position with Bank of America.
IRS should extend e-filing goal to 2011: Oversight Board
The IRS should extend its goal to have the overwhelming majority of income tax returns filed electronically from 2007 to 2011 to extend the benefits of the momentum it has created, the IRS Oversight Board recommended today.
Agencies' business apps modernization will be risky
Agencies must determine what applications to maintain, update or drop and make sure that whatever is implemented aligns with the department's enterprise architecture.
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