HHS names national health IT coordinator
Agenda for new coordinator includes encouraging the private sector to adopt interoperable electronic health records.
Social Security awards contract to convert paper claims
The Social Security Administration awarded a blanket purchase agreement for converting paperwork from disability insurance benefits claims into electronic data.
USDA making loans for rural broadband
The Agriculture Department plans to make available $190 million in loans for rural broadband and telecommunications projects in 19 states.
NEA to use Transportation's Delphi financial system
National Endowment for the Arts selects the Web-ready Delphi Financial Management System, developed by the Transportation Department, for its new finance system.
HHS launches Medicare prescription site
Prescription site to let Medicare recipients sign up for discount cards and compare drug prices.
HHS offers preventive care app to run on PDAs
Preventive Services Selector designed to help physicians search for preventive services for patients based on age, gender and symptoms.
SEC Web site bogs down on Google IPO filing interest
Google Inc.'s IPO plans push so much traffic to the SEC Web site yesterday that it may have significantly slowed down the performance of the agency's home page.
IRS financial management weaknesses linger
Status report finds the IRS still has a number of problems in its financial management operations that the GAO first reported more than 10 years ago.
Bush names Transportation CFO
President Bush yesterday named Linda Morrison Combs as chief financial officer of the Transportation Department.
President sets goals for e-health initiatives
President Bush has directed the Health and Human Services Department to develop a program that will ensure the use of electronic health records for most Americans within 10 years and electronic prescriptions within five years.
FinCEN plans to modernize Bank Secrecy Act database
Upgrades to include new data retrieval system and applications that perform deeper analysis and improve data mining.
Bush expands multiagency bioterror defenses
President Bush has signed a directive, released today, that attempts to better integrate national security, medical, public health, intelligence, agricultural and law enforcement strategies to form a more comprehensive biodefense framework. Together they would form a common surveillance and response network.
Agriculture unveils framework for national animal ID system
The Agriculture Department has announced the framework for a National Animal Identification System to identify any agricultural premise exposed to a foreign animal disease so that the disease can be more quickly contained and eradicated.
Education, states team on school site
How do schools in Florida compare with those in Delaware in meeting the educational standards of the No Child Left Behind Act?A consortium of federal, state and private groups is posting answers to such questions at www.schoolresults.org, a Web site funded by the Education Department and a nonprofit group to make school performance data readily available and schools more accountable.
Bush calls for broad e-records use for health care
President Bush wants most Americans to have electronic health records within 10 years.
HUD plays fast and loose with computer buys, GAO says
Computers at the department are vulnerable to loss or misuse because HUD lacks controls to account for them, GAO reports.
IRS unveils latest online app for tax professionals
The tax agency launched a new online form today to speed the turnaround of tax professionals' applications to become authorized electronic filers.
Agriculture begins use of licensed geodata services
USDA is making geographic information systems data and services available to its agencies, as well as to farmers and growers, for crop analysis and reporting.
Education points microscope at its legal documents
The Education Department selects ISYS Search Software to streamline retrieval of legal information in its Office of the General Counsel.
FAA slows down display system deployment
The Federal Aviation Administration over the next three years will implement its new air traffic control displays at 50 airports with seriously outdated systems.
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