Veterans Affairs, Defense expand their two-way health data system
Doctors in the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' hospitals will soon be able to view patients' medical histories from their first examination to their latest checkup, regardless of which department holds the records.
Recreation One-Stop finalizes contract award
The Forest Service has once again awarded a $97 million contract to ReserveAmerica of Ballston Spa, N.Y., to provide a single federal recreation information and reservation service.
EPA wants chemical data filed only once
The Environmental Protection Agency will streamline reporting for its Toxics Release Inventory by enabling companies in three states to submit their annual accounting of dangerous chemical releases once to EPA's Central Data Exchange using the TRI-ME reporting software.
State tells lawmakers biometrics will ensure identity
A digital photograph and contactless chip for electronic passport implementation would ensure the identity of the person carrying the document, according to a top State Department official.
N.Y. controllers use new FAA system to reduce air space between transoceanic flights
An air traffic system that allows controllers to reduce space between aircraft flying over U.S. oceanic air space is now fully operational at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center.
Education CIO to leave
Education CIO Bill Leidinger announced today that he would be leaving the department as of July 31. No successor has been named.
HHS seeking physician qualifications Web portal
The Health and Human Services Department is seeking industry information about developing a nationwide verification system for qualifications of health-care professionals responding to a public-health emergency.
Forest Service again awards recreation contract to Reserve America
The Forest Service has reawarded a $97 million contract to ReserveAmerica for a single online federal recreation information and reservation service.
Census releases final RFP for 2010 door-to-door counting
The Census Bureau is in search of Field Data Collection Automation services for its population count to be conducted in 2010, as well as a dress rehearsal in 2007.
Lawmakers want to codify HHS' health IT efforts
Members of Congress have jumped on the health IT bandwagon by introducing several bills to boost the momentum for a national health information exchange.
HHS lays foundation for health IT network
The Health and Human Services Department has given the move toward a national health information network the push many people in government and industry have been waiting for.
Senate bill would codify national health IT standards
Sens. Bill Frist and Hillary Rodham Clinton are cosponsoring legislation that would help create an interoperable health IT system through the adoption of standards.
DHS blinks on deadline for e-passports, allows digital photos
The Homeland Security Department will require that Visa Waiver Program countries produce passports with digital photographs by Oct. 26, but will allow another one-year extension for those countries to comply with issuing e-passports.
EPA pilots capability to file once, use often
The agency will streamline reporting for its Toxics Release Inventory by enabling companies in three states to submit their annual accounting of dangerous chemical releases once to EPA's Central Data Exchange using the TRI-ME reporting software.
EPA finds competitive sourcing may compete with Lines of Business
The agency will release a three-year plan soon on how it will expand competitive sourcing to more tasks that the agency previously categorized as inherently governmental.
Frist, Clinton to offer Senate health IT bill
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) plan to introduce 'strong, comprehensive' legislation to encourage development of an interoperable health IT network.
Transportation financial-systems change manager to retire
Deputy CFO Tom Park, a key figure in the Transportation Department's moving to a modernized financial management system, will leave at the end of July.
USDA spending bill limits competitive sourcing
The House late Wednesday passed the fiscal 2006 spending bill for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, with language limiting competitive sourcing. The vote on HR 2744 was 408-18.
Drug safety reporting system might be national health IT project
HHS secretary Mike Leavitt said a prescription drug adverse-event reporting system could be one of the first projects that a federal advisory group might take on as part of an initiative to build a national health information exchange.
HHS releases health IT network RFPs
The Health and Human Services Department released requests for proposals that will pave the way for developing a national health information network infrastructure that will support the exchange of electronic health records.
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