The Department of Health and Human Services expects artificial intelligence will help ensure it's paying the lowest price possible for bulk purchases of everyday items like copy paper and medical examination gloves.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employee unions are heading back to court to pursue their cases against the Office of Personnel Management over the agency's cyber breaches.
Three areas of review were identified for more cybersecurity integration including the checklists for approving medical devices.
Employees at the Health and Human Services Department picketed outside the agency's headquarters Thursday afternoon, demanding that HHS leadership resume collective bargaining negotiations with the National Treasury Employees Union.
Jarvis Rodgers, HHS IT audit director, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the details about the agency's cybersecurity team.
Cloud services contract obligations may increase by about 32 percent in fiscal 2018, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Government.
The Office of Management and Budget says some agencies have acknowledged the administration's initiative to build evidence-based policy agendas with varying degrees of success. Agencies that have become leaders in this space are embracing employee feedback.
Federal agencies are slipping when it comes to using clear language everyone can understand on their public-facing websites. Some of the drop can be attributed to high turnover in the positions meant to work on this goal.
HHS OIG wants stakeholders to know its cybersecurity team is preparing the department to handle incidents like the WannaCry ransomware attack.
The Health and Human Services Department said it's not yet positioned to use data to predict what the next public health crisis might be, but it's developing a new data sharing strategy to launch the agency in the right direction.
The Health and Human Services Department is taking a page out the playbook of major retailers, and it's using blockchain to make it happen.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Agriculture Department's progress under the Centers of Excellence initiative can now be tracked through a new website.
More than 3,800 civilian federal employees, and more than 9,700 military personnel are currently deployed to help respond to Hurricane Florence.
Congressional leaders say they have reached agreement on a plan to pass a stopgap government funding bill through Dec. 7, thereby avoiding a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1.
The Federal Leadership and Professional Development Seminar series is the brainchild of Kim Wittenberg, a health scientist administrator at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at HHS.