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The Obama administration's cancer moonshot has brought three agencies together. They're collaborating on a specific and highly promising approach to the treatment of lung cancer called the Applied Proteo-genomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes consortium, which involves the National Cancer Institute and the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments. Dr. Henry Rodriguez, director of Proteo-genomics Research, and Dr. Warren Kibbe, director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at NCI, join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what the Institute is bringing to the consortium.
The Defense Department will begin the much-anticipated rollout of its new commercially derived electronic health records system in February, according to a new deployment schedule officials announced on Tuesday.
The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently published proposed new standards for electronic health records to work together. The interoperability standards are open now for public comment. Steve Posnack, director of Standards and Technology in the coordinator's office, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
CMS is currently working on an innovative approach to health care spending, called the accountable care initiative. The idea is to coordinate care within accountable care organizations in order to provide better patient outcomes and quicker recovery times, while reducing the number of admissions and re-admissions.
What constitutes health care innovations besides or within new drugs, new techniques and new methods of payments?
Health care is one of the biggest ticket items in the U.S. Plus its the focus of endless research and development. How can it innovate? Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to David Duncan, senior partner at the growth-strategy firm, Innosight, and author of a book on innovation, Competing Against Luck, about what constitutes health care innovations besides or within new drugs, new techniques and new methods of payments.
The Department of Health and Human Services stood up its Idea Lab in 2013 to establish and build on a culture of innovation within the department.
When the National Institutes of Health comes across an idea that seems too big, or too risky, for traditional modes of scientific investigation, the agency turns to its Common Fund program.
The Defense Department will delay the rollout of its forthcoming $4.6 billion electronic health record because of newly-discovered technical problems, officials said Thursday.
Is your agency swamped with data? This week on Federal Tech Talk, Monica McEwen, public sector director at Qlick will explain how her company uses data analytics to help federal IT professionals take diverse streams of information and make sense of them. August 16, 2016
Dave Nelson is leaving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s CIO while Karen DeSalvo left her role as coordinator for health IT to focus full time on being acting assistant secretary for health.
TRICARE contract protests are now so inevitable that a company might want to file one even if they're one of the winners.
Kevin Desanto, co-founder and managing director of KippsDesanto and Nick Wakeman, editor of Washington Technology, will discuss the state of mergers and acquisitions in the government market. August 1, 2016
Early adopters hail the potential of Internet of Things, but no one is willing to commit until some very serious challenges are overcome and certain policies are put in place governmentwide.