Education makes its pick for e-travel
The Education Department has selected CW Government Travel Inc. of San Antonio to provide electronic travel services and an expense management system.
HHS awards contracts to jump-start health IT network
The Health and Human Services Department has awarded three contracts totaling $17.5 million to public-private groups to accelerate the adoption of health IT and the secure portability of health data.
House bill would grant Veterans Affairs' CIO budget authority
Lawmakers are poised to introduce legislation that would give the Veterans Affairs Department's CIO authority over the VA's IT budget, personnel and assets.
HHS proposes health IT exception to anti-kickback laws
The Health and Human Services Department wants physicians to be able to accept hardware, software and training from hospitals to encourage adoption of e-health records.
USDA makes Combs permanent CIO
The Agriculture Department announced today that Dave Combs will become permanent CIO, after having served in an acting capacity for the past three months.
Education Department selects vendor for e-travel
The Education Department selected CW Government Travel Inc. of San Antonio to provide electronic travel services and an expense management system.
Matchmakers
One of the real challenges for government health organizations is matching services with the people who need them.
HHS set to award health IT contracts
HHS anticipates that a single set of standards will emerge for a national health information infrastructure after contractors reconcile existing standards and recommend new ones.
OMB to add internal controls requirements to PMA scorecard
The Office of Management and Budget will add implementation of milestones for tighter internal controls to federal agencies' ratings for the President's Management Agenda scorecard during fiscal 2006.
IRS seeks business rules management system
The agency has issued a request for proposals to acquire software, maintenance, and technical support and training to implement a business rules management environment as part of its systems modernization.
Census Bureau awards Lockheed Martin deal for 2010 census work
The Census Bureau has awarded a $500 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop and operate the information processing system for the 2010 Census.
HHS proposes HIPAA standards for e-health claims attachments
The Health and Human Services Department is proposing the adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
CMS tests e-records system for use by physicians
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finally released the much anticipated beta version of its VistA-Office software, which it hopes will push physicians to adopt electronic health records.
Census maps its 2010 population count
The Census Bureau is finding that the best way to get employees to buy into an enterprise architecture is to let them participate in developing it.
Next, agencies must sell non-IT managers on the benefits of EA
Agency IT officials say they are beginning to find value in using enterprise architecture to reduce the number of processes, which they expect will ultimately save them money.
Senate passes VA, USDA spending bills with IT restraints
In both bills, lawmakers continued the trend of placing limits on department IT spending, such as restricting funds and requiring notification of major IT projects, as they try to control costs.
A few agencies can measure improvements
Despite having an abundance of performance measures to determine effectiveness, agency managers generally do not use them to inform their decisions any more than they did several years ago.
NIH systems admin work to get A-76 review
The National Institutes of Health has announced a competitive sourcing study to determine whether its systems administration activities should be contracted out instead of remaining inside the government.
Senate limits IT funds in bill for DOJ, Commerce
The Senate has reined in IT funding for the Commerce and Justice departments and for science and independent agencies, even as it approved a much more generous overall budget than requested.
KatrinaHealth.org to provide evacuees' electronic drug data
A public-private ad hoc group has launched a secure online service for authorized health professionals to gain electronic access to prescription medication records for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
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