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Congressional appropriations breakdown perpetuates waste

How much will the president's new budget request due out to Congress (and the public) on Feb. 7 actually matter? It's a question that might have a disheartening response, going by Congress's

Obama shuts down email tip site

Was it a good idea that fizzled or a bad one that flopped? Whatever it was, the White House pulled the plug Monday on the email account flag(at)whitehouse.gov, which had been set up to collect tips

Mental healthcare over the web for military; Navy CIO's blog;

> Mental health care over the web for military. Article > Navy CIO's blog. Article > Doubt hovers over government IT initiatives. Article > Obama launches Internet campaign for health

SPOTLIGHT: Is Obama's health IT plan flawed?

The Obama administration plans to spend billions of dollars to get hospitals to start using electronic medical records. But this plan to go digital, part of the health reform effort to reduce costs

Feds want IT tool kit for docs

It's become conventional wisdom that IT health records will improve medical care, reduce costs and make life better for patients and doctors. The Obama administration is pumping millions of dollars

Government health IT gets a few more advisers

It takes a village to raise a child, a phrase Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once used in her best-selling book. Now it will take two committees to advice the government on health

Don't hold your breath for e-Health

Health IT has been a long time coming, and it may still be some distance away. President Obama's stimulus law has roughly $19 billion for health information technology--to help hospitals and clinics