Government & Policy
Workflow
The agency has been on the watchdog's list for three years due to a long list of vulnerabilities, from mismanagement to ambiguous policies.
Privacy & Security
The rare joint alert says Russia, behind the global NotPetya attack, has been laying the groundwork for future cyberattacks and targeting critical infrastructure.
Electronic Health Records
From community hospitals to major federal government agencies, this month has already seen a number of notable happenings in the electronic health record space.
Privacy & Security
The longtime federal health IT leader joins Nebraska’s Election Systems and Software security team.
Electronic Health Records
Spending on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces has decreased, as Veterans Affairs has ramped up IT modernization efforts, according to a Deltek report.
Data Warehousing
The hackers behind the attack on Allscripts have hit 10 organizations in the last few months, levering open RDP connections to proliferate inside a network.
Interoperability
The Choice Program was designed to shorten wait times and ease travel burdens for veterans. But Congress failed to pass the reform package last month.
Electronic Health Records
Federal officials said that USCG’s requirements are almost 100 percent the same as the Defense Department and, unlike Veterans Affairs, the agencies can both rollout the electronic health record under a single contract.
Electronic Health Records
The agency has been operating with pencil and paper for nearly three years after a failed Epic EHR project with the State Department.
Compliance
The medical records vendor sued the agency in January for ‘absurd’ enforcement -- but HHS claims that CiOX has no constitutional standing for such a case.