National Health IT Coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal last week asked his advisers to come up with a solution on how to streamline federal and state systems for enrolling people applying for health insurance benefits under the law. Government HealthIT reports that Blumenthal asked members of the Standards Committee to start to create standards for exchanging [...]

It is vital to have an established collaboration between the government and the private sector to protect the country from cyber attacks, Sen. Jay Rockefeller told the Business Software Alliance Cybersecurity Forum held April 29. “To secure our country from cyber attacks, we must have shared responsibility between the government and the private sector,” he [...]

At a commencement ceremony at Florida A&M University held Saturday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff delivered a keynote speech evoking civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s notion that “everybody can be great, because anyone can serve.” “Service in uniform is not exactly what I am driving at,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told [...]