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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, file photo, a syringe containing a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine sits in a container during a vaccine clinic at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 patients, Providence Alaska Medical Center, Alaska’s largest hospital, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, implemented crisis standards of care, prioritizing resources and treatments to those patients who have the potential to benefit the most.(Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool, File)

Contractors assess the just released details of White House COVID-19 protocols

For an industry reaction, the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Professional Services Council Stephanie Kostro spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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Sammies finalist helped craft national survey for gathering childhood health data

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Health and Human Services gets advice for building data capacity on one of its top priorities

Big Data

Medicare and FEHB

For Your Benefit

A look at the future of Healthcare IT

Federal Tech Talk

Healthcare workers walk to a tent, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, at a COVID-19 testing site outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. State officials say Florida has surpassed 500,000 coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, testing is ramping up following a temporary shutdown of some sites because of Tropical Storm Isaias. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

How human-centered design enables federal health agility during COVID-19

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Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill being prepped in Congress includes a provision that over five years would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Labor Dept. offering sessions for federal contractor minimum wage increase

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2015 file photo, Dr. Rahul Gupta, state health officer of West Virginia, talks in his office in Charleston, W.Va. President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping an official who served on the frontlines of the nation’s opioid epidemic. The White House says Dr. Rahul Gupta will be the first physician to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy, also known as the “drug czar.” (AP Photo/John Raby)

Biden picks ex-West Virginia health official as drug czar

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FDA doctor recognized for collaboration to get COVID vaccines distributed at record speed

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A patient receives a transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, Palo Alto, Calif. The device, which uses magnetic fields to stimulate the brain, is being used on military veterans suffering from depression. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

The VA never stops its search for treatments for PTSD

Veterans Affairs

American soldier in military uniform preventing cyber attack in military intelligence center. An US officer intercepting messages to stop terrorism. Modern warfare system surveillance concept.

New Pentagon strategy for overseas cloud appears to back away from JEDI vision

DoD Reporter's Notebook

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NIH doctors earn Sammies finalist honors for addressing higher COVID-19 rates among minorities

Black, Latino, Native American and other minorities had higher rates of COVID-19 – contracting it and and being hospitalized – than the national average….

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Veterans Affairs only spent about half of CARES Act money so far, GAO says

The Director of Health Care issues at the Government Accountability Office Sharon Silas discusses what the watchdog agency found.

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Leading infectious disease expert nominated for Sammies career achievement award

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Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a finalist in this year’s Service to America Medals Program, Dr. Anne Schuchat, spoke with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about her career.

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Contractors assess the just released details of White House COVID-19 protocols

Sammies finalist helped craft national survey for gathering childhood health data

Health and Human Services gets advice for building data capacity on one of its top priorities

Medicare and FEHB

A look at the future of Healthcare IT

How human-centered design enables federal health agility during COVID-19

Labor Dept. offering sessions for federal contractor minimum wage increase

Biden picks ex-West Virginia health official as drug czar

FDA doctor recognized for collaboration to get COVID vaccines distributed at record speed

The VA never stops its search for treatments for PTSD

New Pentagon strategy for overseas cloud appears to back away from JEDI vision

NIH doctors earn Sammies finalist honors for addressing higher COVID-19 rates among minorities

Veterans Affairs only spent about half of CARES Act money so far, GAO says

Leading infectious disease expert nominated for Sammies career achievement award

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