Department of Health and Human Services

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New HHS research agency ‘fully embracing’ generative AI

ARPA-H plans to use generative AI internally, while exploring its use “across the patient, payer and provider sectors.”

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From burnout, unhappiness to thriving, attractive, how HHS’ CFO’s office turned the tide

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Not just a disease of the late 20th Century, HIV/AIDS still gets federal attention

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Workplace Reimagined 2023: HHS’ Bob Leavitt, Jeffery Anoka on recruiting the future federal workforce

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Reforming federal hiring: Does the Chance to Compete Act promise more than the government can deliver?

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FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., June 10, 2021, to seek asylum. The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border undergo another round of psychological evaluations in an effort to measure how just traumatized they were by the Trump-era policy, court documents show.   (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

It’s no small task to resettle the children flowing past the nation’s borders

Homeland Security isn’t the only department dealing with an ongoing border crisis. Health and Human Services has a big job too. It’s Office of Refugee…

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Cloud Exchange 2023: HHS’ George Chambers explains how HHS office turns multiple cloud contracts into shared services

When it comes to applications and supporting services, HHS’s multi-cloud environment requires special management attention.

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(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)FILE - In this April 5, 2009 file photo, the Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington.  A government audit finds that more than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police. The Health and Human Services inspector general's office faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law that requires nursing homes to immediately notify police.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

This federal institution has an institution of its own

Can a federal department have an institution. Health and Human Services does. Its institution is a person: Bill Hall, who recently retired after — get this — 43 years in public affairs.

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