National Cancer Institute

Efforts in the challenging fight against kidney cancer made this doctor a Service to America Medals Program finalist.

President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget request would give the Justice Department $72 million to fund stronger enforcement of immigration laws and reduce the nation’s backlog of asylum cases.

HUD, USDA CIOs talking IT modernization and cybersecurity among the most listened and read Ask the CIO interviews last year.

The Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM) held its annual Leadership Awards Celebration and reception, honoring individuals from agencies, nonprofits and private sector companies for their work in IT management, cybersecurity, big data and more.

The National Cancer Institute’s acting CIO said his first attempt at managed services will be a printing pilot.

The National Cancer Institute is sharing data and moving applications to the cloud in an effort to make life easier for its employees.

Just like weather or traffic apps make it easy to share massive amounts of information with users, the National Cancer Institute is using an application programming interface (API) to connect patients with clinical trial data they otherwise wouldn’t know about.

Unified communications involves making sure everyone gets the message, no matter how it was sent. At the National Institutes of Health, it means combining phone, video, text and more to link doctors, administrators, researchers and patients with each other and outside organizations like universities.

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 Cancer Moonshot initiative is increasingly relying on open data to link patients with treatments, but with that data sharing come questions of how best to protect confidential and personal information.