Food and Drug Administration

• Cars, toasters, medical devices add to DHS’ cyber headaches

  The Science and Technology Directorate's Cybersecurity Division received dozens of proposals to protect the next emerging area for cybersecurity, called physical systems. S&T will receive 70 proposals across four major areas and award $95 million to the best ideas in early 2015.

  Technology

  October 31, 2014
• FDA reorg splits CIO, informatics roles in preparation for network innovations

  Walter Harris, the chief operating officer and acting chief information officer at the Food and Drug Administration, said the agency should name a permanent CIO in the next three months to help take the agency into the cloud.

  Ask the CIO

  September 25, 2014
• Janet Woodcock, Food and Drug Administration

  The Food and Drug Administration is trying to harness the data in electronic health records to help develop better medicine. In a pilot program, it regularly surveys 18 large health care organizations. Right now, it's mining records and claims data from more than 150 million patients nationwide. Janet Woodcock is director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluations and Research. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain how the pilot, known as Mini-Sentinel, works.

  Federal Drive

  July 10, 2014
• David Olive, Principal, Catalyst Partners

  Terrorists in the Middle East are using weapons, supplies, and even new technology made in the United States in their attacks on Iraqi cities and elsewhere. David Olive is a principal of Catalyst Partners and a writer for the Security Debrief blog. He said on In Depth with Francis Rose, they're even using a brand new drug the Food and Drug Administration just approved for military use in April, and it's calling into question the security of the military supply chain.

  All News

  June 23, 2014
• Crosse shines light on FDA’s regulatory challenges overseas

  For her efforts in raising awareness of the regulatory challenges the Food and Drug Administration was facing due to globalization, the Partnership for Public recently named GAO's Marcia Crosse as one of the finalists for the 2014 Citizen Services Medal.

  Federal Drive

  June 16, 2014
• Taha Kass-Hout, Chief Health Informatics Officer, FDA

  The Food and Drug Administration has launched openFDA. It's a new data initiative making for easier access to large public health datasets. OpenFDA is in line with the President's open data executive order and the Health and Human Service Department's Health Data Initiative. Taha Kass-Hout is chief health informatics officer at the FDA. He explains the main focus of the project to Tom and Emily on the Federal Drive.

  Federal Drive

  June 03, 2014
• Mike Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for Food and Veterinary Medicine

  The Food Safety Modernization Act passed three years ago boosted the Food and Drug Administration's power to keep our food supply safe. But like any new law, the devil is in the details and they've been a long time coming. The FDA is still working on the major rules. Mike Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for Food and Veterinary Medicine, spoke with Federal Drive host Emily Kopp about what comes next with the rules.

  Federal Drive

  March 26, 2014
• During shutdown, critical public safety functions fall by the wayside

  A new staff report from the Senate Commerce Committee highlights some of the ways in which the government shutdown is throwing sand in the gears of the private economy. But the authors also point to several ways in which federal furloughs are jeopardizing public safety.

  Congress

  October 11, 2013
• 2013 Causey Award Winner – Ronald Loube

  Ronald Loube was nominated for a Causey Award for his design and development of an in-house training program called The FDA Acquisition Academy.

  Mike Causey

  September 23, 2013
• Howard leaving HHS for new job at FDA

  Sally Howard is stepping down as the chief of staff at Health and Human Services to become the deputy commissioner for policy at the Food and Drug Administration.

  Management

  April 30, 2013
• Inside the Reporter’s Notebook: A deeper dive into the 2014 budget

  News and buzz in the acquisition and IT communities that you may have missed this week.

  Budget

  April 12, 2013
• Healthcare IT and clinical testing

  Tony Varano, founder and CEO of DSG, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how to improve healthcare data collection. March 12, 2013

  Federal Tech Talk

  March 12, 2013
• Federal Drive Interviews — Feb. 21, 2013

  The latest presidential executive order tries to boost information sharing about cybersecurity threats and sharing is to take place among government agencies and between the government and industry. To find out how, Federal Drive talks to Jim Fama, vice president for energy delivery at the Edison Electric Institute. And imagine the panic if there's a major health outbreak and just not enough medicine for everyone. The FDA wants the public's help as it drafts a new strategy to combat drug shortages. Capt. Valerie Jensen is associate director of the drug shortage program at FDA and she joins the Federal Drive.

  Federal Drive

  February 21, 2013
• Perakslis shifting the FDA to a data-centric approach

  The Food and Drug Administration's new Information Management Strategic plan is helping to create a new infrastructure to support using data to meet its mission. January 24, 2013

  Ask the CIO

  January 24, 2013