Today at 11:00 am there is an eSeminar hosted by Federal Computer Week and James McCartney, identity management and privacy consultant for Deloitte Consulting. This informative eSeminar with be focused on the privacy issues associated with the open government initiatives. With these new initiatives, privacy has become more of a concern. McCartney plans on addressing [...]
Yesterday at a health policy panel, a top executive stated that most lab reports are still on paper. In order to have a national electronic health record system, this is one of the key components and steps: digitizing lab tests. There are about 200,000 medical labs in the United States comprising of hospitals, clinicians’ offices [...]
Three ideas from the Department of Health and Human Services are results of the accessible federal decision making process. In a press released dated this week, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Information Streaming, IdeaLab and YouTube “What To Do About the Flu and Prevention PSA Contest” have been made using the presidents memorandum for [...]
Today Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder announced the creation of a Presidential task force on controlled unclassified information releases. This announcement is one of two major steps to enhance information sharing among federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. The first step in safe guarding sensitive information [...]
The U.S. Small Business Administration, together with Dell, launched a new educational video series yesterday. These videos are aimed at helping small businesses grow and develop, as well as create new job opportunities. The videos include different strategies and tools to help small business bounce back from the recession. They also offer tools how to [...]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a cyber job fair on December 11th, 2009. This virtual job fair was opened in order to recruit more cybersecurity experts. And what better place to find them then online? This launch also is consistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to hire up to 1,000 new [...]
Recently healthcare informatics seems to be a buzzword in both the healthcare and education industries. As Congress pushes for a new healthcare system and information technology advances both converge in healthcare informatics and educators are taking notice. Now many colleges and universities across the world are offering degree programs in healthcare informatics. These students pursuing [...]
On December 3rd 2009, Executive Biz and Military Information Technology Magazine, together held a conference call with Mary Davie, Assistant Commissioner of Office of Assisted Acquisition Services, Dan Mutz, of the National Academy of Public Administration, and Esther Burgess or ACT/IAC Acquisition Management Shared Interest Group. The topic discussed was the Better Buy Project. Interviewees: [...]
Department of Homeland Security is facing pressure from three Republican Congressmen over the leaked TSA documents. Representatives Peter King (R-NY), Charles Dent (R-PA), and Gus Nillrakis (R-FL) authored a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano asking how her department has “addressed the repeated reposting of this security manual to other websites” and asked about legal [...]
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency signed two findings regarding greenhouse gases adding them to the Clean Air Act. These two findings named endangerment findings and cause or contribute findings help define which gases contribute the most to greenhouse effect. Endangerment findings state that six well-mixed gases at the current concentrations threaten the public [...]