The healthcare IT landscape is shifting and a new panel commissioned by President Obama is looking to the American public for ideas to make that new landscape easy to navigate. With that aim in mind, the newly minted “Enrollment Workgroup of the Health IT Policy and Standards Committees,” chaired by Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra and [...]
A panel is slated to determine standards for the electronic exchange of eligibility and enrollment data among state and federal social services next month, according to Government Health IT. The panel will be headed by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Sam Karp, vice president of programs for the California HealthCare Foundation when the [...]
Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt penned a letter to the nation announcing the launch of a new forum aimed at gathering the best and most feasible cybersecurity ideas in the country. “Comprising the broadband and wireless networks that connect us, the smart devices that enable us, and the digital [...]
Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra say that the Open Government initiative is heading in the right direction, but that much more work is left to assure an implementation that works for all agencies. The pair highlighted three points in a blog post on whitehouse.gov: “Finding #1: All on [...]
In a conference call with reporters, federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said the White House’s new social media policy will mean that “agencies have a lot more running room to embrace these principles without having to wait sometimes months for review.” The conference call discussed the impact of Obama’s recent memorandum, entitled “Social Media, Web-Based Interactive [...]
On the Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra writes about the next steps in modernizing government. Last January, the Obama administration held the White House Forum on Modernizing Government, which brought together more than 50 CEOs from America’s leading technology companies, high-level government officials, labor union leaders and senior White [...]
Yesterday, the FCC released the National Broadband Plan called for by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The plan identifies ways to expand access to broadband and promote economic growth and job creation in areas unserved or underserved by broadband internet access. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra writes on the Office of Science and Technology [...]
