Sanja Basaric, the artificial intelligence program lead at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is departing from her role this week to head over to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are responding to a data breach in one of their contractor’s software that is affecting over 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries. […]

Federal agency officials made it clear that the concept of “health IT alignment” is their number one priority in the IT sphere during a July 25 webinar organized by Federal News Network. titled Federal Executive Forum Healthcare IT in Government hosted by Federal News Network on July 25. Ryan Dempsey Argentieri, deputy director of the […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights warned hospitals and telehealth providers of potential privacy and security risks embedded in their websites and applications. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is rolling out a new zero trust scorecard across the agency’s different operating divisions to accelerate zero trust security adoption and drive strategy across HHS. […]

As artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing many different aspects of human life, it is still important for the Federal government to understand how this new technology will ultimately impact the healthcare sector, according to a top official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has hired in for two key positions in its Division of Operational Data and Analytics. […]

The COVID-19 pandemic allowed the Federal government to speed up its AI data integration tools in a way that would have never been possible if it were not for the “all hands on deck” approach, according to Greg Singleton, chief artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). […]

With the migration to zero trust security architectures is in full swing in the Federal government, top agency technology executives shared their experience with effective strategies and technologies they have implemented thus far during an April 25 webinar organized by Federal News Network. […]

The Department of Health and Human Security (HHS) has issued a draft of new cybersecurity resources to guide healthcare companies in their response to cyberattacks. […]

Jeff Robinson has been tapped to be the new assistant director for Cybersecurity and Information Technology Audits at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), according to his LinkedIn account. […]

In an ever-evolving threat landscape, mitigating ransomware attacks and expanding access to telehealth are main priorities for IT experts in the health sector, said Benjamin Koshy, chief information security officer (CISO) for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service. […]

To better understand what causes a pandemic, researchers will often alter pathogens that already have pandemic potential. However, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should improve its oversight process for such high-risk research activities.  […]

Federal health-sector cybersecurity leaders from components across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that when it comes to implementing zero trust security mandates – such as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo M-22-09 – agencies can’t treat the task as just “checking another box.” […]

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) plans to release updated cybersecurity guidance for the healthcare industry along with an agency-wide data strategy in the upcoming weeks, according to Karl Mathias, chief information officer (CIO) at HHS. […]

In pursuit of their primary mission, innovators at Federal agencies must seek new ways to leverage technology. And in a post-COVID world, public health IT experts are assessing how technology can augment human workers when healthcare workers are in short supply. […]

A top Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official in charge of preparedness and response said today that the agency is interested in the development of automated patient reporting technologies to boost the government’s ability to improve diagnosis and treatment. […]

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) has officially appointed Brian Goodger to serve as the program’s director, according to a Jan. 11 press release.   […]

Long-time Federal government IT leader Bobby Saxon has returned to the private sector after serving for six years at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), most recently as deputy director and deputy chief information officer (CIO) in the agency’s Office of IT. […]

Federal agency tech leaders this week identified issues of cost and culture when it comes to the biggest challenges to implementing zero trust security architectures. […]

Top Federal officials from largely public-facing agencies explained at a Dec. 1 GovExec event how zero trust security, if adopted correctly, will inherently end up improving customer experience (CX). […]

Since July 2021, the Hive ransomware group has victimized over 1,300 companies worldwide and received about $100 million in ransom payments, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). […]

The Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is seeking recommendations and solutions to replace its legacy Program Information Management System (PIMS) with a new and modernized system to manage and track OCR activities and become the organization’s system of record. […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has created a new website that aims at helping keep track of Covid-19 data from at-home tests. […]

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve its collaboration with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to better protect the health care sector from cyberattacks – and designate a senior leader to lead the agency’s cyber efforts. […]

Equity in healthcare services is a big problem plaguing many minority and immigrant groups in the United States, but one with the potential for technology-driven cures, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official said on Nov. 3 at GDIT’s Emerge Health 2022 event. […]

Oki Mek, who became the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) first chief artificial intelligence officer in late 2020 and left government service in February of this year, landed at Microsoft in August as the company’s chief information security officer (CISO) for the Federal civilian sector. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) component has not comprehensively assessed the quality of care patients have received through telehealth services, and lacks some key data on telehealth services delivered in patients’ homes or via phone, according to a recent report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).   […]

Considering the nearly three-year COVID-19 pandemic that has had a chokehold on the United States and exposed vulnerabilities in the nation’s ability to operate digitally, one government watchdog is urging Federal officials to overcome their challenges in how they manage public health data. […]

Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on September 13 introduced bipartisan legislation to protect Americans’ healthcare data from cyberattacks. […]