Tag Archives: Health and Human Services

The Government Accountability Office has found that federal agencies reported $3.2T in total spending authority and permanent appropriations for fiscal year 2015, reflecting an 88 percent rise from FY 1994. GAO said in a report published Tuesday that such inflation-adjusted growth was primarily driven by the use of permanent appropriations authority, which supports federal entitlement initiatives such as Medicare and the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program. 
 

The Department of Health and Human Services has set the initial schedule for the start of a collaborative program to widen research and development opportunities for the U.S. healthcare industry.

The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Treasury and Homeland Security use service level agreements to procure cloud computing services from the private sector, according to a Government Accountability Office report. GAO said Thursday it reviewed a total of 21 cloud SLAs from those five departments in order to determine …

The Department of Health and Human Services has appointed Susannah Fox, a more than 10-year veteran of the Pew Research Center, to succeed Bryan Sivak as the department’s chief technology officer, Fedscoop reported Thursday. Billy Mitchell writes Fox worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at at the Robert Johnson Wood Foundation after …

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to update the HealthData.gov website with the goal of making it easier for users to access public data sets in the repository, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes Damon Davis, director of HHS’ Health Data Initiative, said the department’s Idea …

Mark Naggar, program manager for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‘ Buyers Club, has said that HHS is moving away from a waterfall model toward an agile method to accelerate the agency’s acquisition cycle, Fedscoop reported Monday. “While agile may not accomplish everything, you are definitely mitigating your …

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released a draft plan to establish a system for interoperable health information exchange on a national scale. ONC crafted the “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0” to promote technology-based care delivery, …

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has developed a plan aimed at improving healthcare data exchange between federal agencies and their industry partners. ONC set a 60-day comment period on the agency’s five-year Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services …

The 2013 U.S. government shutdown halted grant programs and contract activities within the departments of the Health and Human Services, Energy and Transportation, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. GAO said Friday the three agencies’ operations faced disruptions as the shutdown forced the organizations to furlough several …

The Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a two-day public workshop in October to gather insight from healthcare experts on how to address cyber threats tied to medical technology. FDA said Tuesday in the Federal Register it will hold the event on Oct. 21 and 22 at the National Intellectual …