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Federal Officials Urge Healthcare Industry’s Adoption of FHIR for Interoperability

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The best way to ensure electronic health record systems can share data interoperably is for industry to adopt the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, or FHIR, say federal officials.

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QinetiQ US Wins $31.5M Contract to Support Army’s Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors

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Army Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors. This work continues the design, development and integration activities for the Integrated Sensor Architecture program, which supports data sharing of sensors across battlefield networks. QinetiQ US has won a 5-year, $31.5 million task order to support the U.S.

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Watchdog flags major incidents for VA’s electronic health record system

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has neglected to put in the proper controls for its Oracle Cerner electronic health record system to adequately prevent and respond to major incidents, according to a new audit from the agency’s Office of Inspector General.

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Bipartisan Senate bill aims to ban U.S. agency purchases of counterfeit electronics 

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. “This commonsense legislation would require government agencies to only purchase reliable electronics from trustworthy sellers, helping safeguard our cybersecurity from bad actors around the world.” agency purchases of counterfeit electronics appeared first on FedScoop. The post Bipartisan Senate bill aims to ban U.S.

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Improving public health through data exchange

AWS Public Sector

As public health resources shift away from the pandemic response, jurisdictions now seek ways to modernize their public health infrastructure to avoid previous challenges such as data fragmentation, incompleteness of health data, and lack of interoperability.

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ICE says it’s stopped using commercial telemetry data

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped using commercial telemetry data, which can include phone data that reveals a person’s location, an agency spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant.

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ICE pursuing privacy approvals related to controversial phone location data

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Back in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had stopped using commercial telemetry data that government agencies buy from private companies. The move comes as civil rights advocates have raised repeated concerns about the use of commercial telemetry data. Within DHS, the use of this data has raised alarm bells.

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