Despite a push toward adopting and using health IT, less than 10 percent of American adults now use electronic medical records or turn to email to contact their doctor, according to a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll. The survey revealed nearly 50 percent of respondents were uncertain whether their physicians offered these technologies. However, the majority [...]
FBI’s “Operation Stolen Dreams” has recovered more than $147 million stolen from mortgage fraudsters throughout the country since its start date March 1. The sweep was a coordinated Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force effort to investigate and prosecute those allegedly involved in financial crimes for mortgage fraud. Director Robert Mueller, III announced the program is [...]
The federal government lacks many of the technological capabilities that are widespread in the private sector, and this IT gap considerably impacts the ability to improve the efficiency of government and deliver better services to Americans, said federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. In a blog posted Tuesday, Kundra outlined the initial steps the Obama [...]
The federal agency in charge of protecting the U.S. Internet infrastructure and coordinating defense against and responses to cyber attacks is not well prepared to do so, according to a report released today by the Office of Inspector General. US-CERT was created in 2003 to protect the federal government network infrastructure by coordinating efforts to [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was pleased with the progress Congress made in drawing up the financial-regulatory overhaul legislation. The U.S. House and Senate came close to an agreement on the proposal to supervise the big financial firms at the Squam Lake financial conference. Senate lawmakers moved close to accepting the House proposal to eliminate [...]
The Department of Defense stands behind the new Strategic Arms Control and National Security Treaty, which strengthens strategic stability, allows the country to revamp its strategic delivery systems and protects its flexibility to deploy important nuclear and non-nuclear capabilities, a senior defense official told Congress on Monday. The treaty is created to address specific DoD [...]
Approximately 80 college students and professors from across the nation and Puerto Rico are expected to attend a NASA-organized workshop to learn how to build small experiments that can be launched on sounding rockets. The week-long workshop called RockOn! begins June 19 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, and the participants will build standardized [...]
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday announced new investments worth $250 million to increase the number of healthcare providers and strengthen the primary care workforce. Communities across the country have long suffered from a shortage of primary care providers. Experts say without action, the primary care shortfall will continue and [...]
The Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Navy, Robert Carey, has announced that he will be moving to another position within the department at the request of Navy Undersecretary Robert Work. It is planned that he will remain CIO until the end of the Summer. The CIO’s new position remains unannounced but Carey plans to [...]
As the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 reached its first hearing at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate for the Department of Homeland Security Philip Reitinger spoke about the bill to give the president emergency powers of the Internet [...]