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More government will lead to taxpayer dollars stolen through fraud. However, it also means more money is needed to combat that fraud.
The government's latest consolidated financial statements would give a normal CFO hives. Material control weaknesses, significant uncertainties, serious financial management problems.
The CISO at CMS is pushing cybersecurity professionals to hone their "soft skills."
Robert Wood, the CMS chief information security officer, said the agency went from contract award for their DevSecOps platform, called the BatCave, to production in less than a year.
The National Institutes of Health released a job announcement for its director of the Center for IT but not yet a job announcement for its CIO role after Andrea Norris retired in December.
Medicare Advantage was established to make health care delivery more efficient. Nowadays, nearly half of all Medicare recipients are part of a Medicare Advantage plan. Unfortunately, the Medicare Advantage payment model is subject to fraud.
Shawnte Singletary, the deputy director of the Division of Security and Privacy Compliance in the Office of Information Security and Privacy Group at CMS, said the desire for software-as-a-service is driving new security assessments.
The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is using the weight of a dozen audits to get hospitals to stop overcharging the government.
By engaging closely with customers, the Center for Medicaid & Medicare aims to improve digital services both to help citizens and to reduce demands on its call centers. That involves moving more capabilities to the cloud too.
The closer return-to-office dates come, the greater the apparent preference for telework.
The Biden administration has repeatedly called for equity considerations to be incorporated into new policies or programs, and more federal leaders are grasping what that means for their particular agencies.
Almost everything is connected to the internet which will expand the number of attack surfaces.
Some 28 million people on Medicare used telehealth in the first year of the pandemic, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since November at least six agencies issued notices or requests for information/proposals to industry seeking feedback on how to do more to protect their supply chains.