IT Modernization
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A group of lawmakers urged the Office of Personnel Management for answers and a timeline for modernizing its system for processing federal employees’ retirement applications.
April 06, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ latest pause in the rollout of its new Electronic Health Record will last longer expected.
April 06, 2023 -
Modern digital tools, powered by IT, have become an integral part of our daily lives. These technologies have changed how we perform various tasks such as accessing information, planning trips, conducting business and communicating with others.
April 03, 2023 -
Jeff Shilling, the chief information officer of the National Cancer Institute in the National Institutes of Health, said modernizing the underlying technology infrastructure will make data sharing with researchers and others easier.
March 31, 2023 -
House VA Committee Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) says the VA has yet to provide a clear picture of what a successful rollout of the Oracle-Cerner EHR looks like from here, given the system’s track record.
March 30, 2023 -
Top Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are planning to introduce legislation that would pause the VA’s troubled rollout of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) until sites already using the system show improvement.
March 29, 2023 -
The Commerce Department's inspector general is hiring fast to oversee billions of dollars in CHIPS Act spending.
March 24, 2023 -
Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA's Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.
March 24, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management still has a lot of rebuilding to do. The Trump administration tried to roll its functions into the White House and GSA.
March 24, 2023 -
Dorothy Aronson, NSF’s chief information officer and soon-to-be chief data officer, said the agency has created a central repository of low-code and no-code tools that employees have created to improve and automate their own workflows, to share them across the organization.
March 22, 2023 -
Federal agencies are starting to reap the benefits of digital modernization, resulting in stronger digital solutions, increased efficiency, and future-proofed systems. While these are significant strides, there are several key areas where agencies still have…
March 17, 2023 -
Among heated questions about federal telework, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee urged Office of Personnel Management Director to make improvements to retirement services, the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program and the federal hiring process.
March 17, 2023 -
This past fall, Juliana Vida from Splunk wrote a piece exploring the value that full observability can bring to government IT organizations as they strive to achieve end-to-end visibility across their entire hybrid technology landscape, including both on-premise and fully cloud-based environments.
March 16, 2023 -
VA is telling Congress it understands what went wrong in previous deployments of its new Electronic Health Record, and is confident short-term fixes will allow the agency to resume the project.
March 16, 2023 -
Gundeep Ahluwalia, the chief information officer for the Labor Department, said three funding sources, two-year appropriations, a working capital fund and the Technology Modernization Fund, is giving the agency the resources to move to the cloud.
March 16, 2023