Indian Health Service

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Whole-of-government suicide-prevention strategy

The federal government has a new strategy to prevent suicide.

Management

Opportunities to improve Indian Health outcomes

Commentary

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Watchword for 2023: Resilience

Tom Temin Commentary

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nation’s largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs — a possible shift in an industry that has largely rejected compulsory measures for fear of triggering an employee exodus that could worsen already dangerous staffing shortages. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

VA, HHS expand vaccines mandate to nearly all health care workers

Workforce

Musurlian, Peter

Indian Health Service found to have gaps in spending, facilities oversight

Agency Oversight

HHS IG urges Indian Health Service leaders to get a grip on healthcare

Federal Drive

Jonathan Merrell: Indian Health Service launches dashboard tracking care quality

Federal Drive

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 24, 2011) Cryptologic Technician (Collection) Seaman Recruit Ben Lowden, left, from Brownsberg, Ind., Cryptologic Technician (Networks) Seaman Apprentice Alicia Sutliff, from Jacksonville, Fla., and Cryptologic Technician (Technical) 3rd Class Steven Tometczak, from Reno, Nev., students at the Center for Information Dominance (CID) Corry Station, preview the Integrated System for Language Education and Training (ISLET). The program is being tested by the CID-based Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture and the Academic Consortium for Global Education. (U.S. Navy photo by Gary Nichols/Released)

Deadline set for Navy’s move to Windows 10

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers push for more exemptions to hiring freeze

Lawmakers introduced five bills to ensure the readiness of the federal workforce in the face of the hiring freeze or potential furloughs.

Hiring/Retention

Indian Health Service applying IT workarounds in light of poor broadband access

Cmdr. Mark Rives, the director of IT and the chief information officer at the Indian Health Service, said the challenges of getting high-speed Internet…

Ask the CIO

Indian Health Service solving e-health challenges with help from VA

Technology

The Indian Health Service is using the success of the Veterans Affairs e-health record program to update its own systems. IHS Acting Chief Information Officer Howard Hays spoke to Federal News Radio’s Agency of the Month show about the upgrade.