By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the week. GSA ITS outlines guiding principles for 2013 – The acting commissioner of GSA Integrated Technology Service outlined their 2013 principles in a blog post recently. He came up with these priorities from a recent roundtable. Via...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: A U.S. federal appeals court found that authorities do not need a probable-cause warrant to track suspects through their mobile phone GPS. More here. A new bill, the Wireless Surveillance Act of 2012, has been proposed, ho...
As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confronts a large number of new IT challenges, such as supporting state insurance exchanges and testing new reimbursement and care delivery models, it must transform its approach to IT systems. So says a new report from the National Research Co...
via Information Week Government The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released a fact sheet that outlines how the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (better known as the “Super Committee”) mandate to cut federal spending may impact health IT. The ...
via nextgov The federal transition to cloud computing is an overlooked source of savings as the government battles over trillions of dollars in spending reductions, the leader of a Senate oversight subcommittee said this week. A visibly weary Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., was addressing a conference Wedn...
via Government Computer News A continuing series of high-profile security breaches, capped by reports that the Google Gmail accounts of some government and industry officials have been compromised, illustrates the need for agencies to focus on the basics of cybersecurity, government security officia...
via Fierce Government IT The Health and Human Services inspector general is pushing for inclusion of addition security controls in national standards for electronic health records. In an audit dated May 16, the HHS IG says the Office of Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Techn...
via Marketwire PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ–(Marketwire – May 10, 2011) – A smart card-based Medicare identity card could save the United States $370 billion over 10 years, according to Kelli Emerick, executive director of the Secure ID Coalition. Speaking at the Smart Card Alliance 2011...