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Nancy Ferris

Nancy Ferris is senior editor of Government Health IT.
Management

Fla., DOD collaborate on data exchange

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration is aiming to establish a statewide health information network.

Infrastructure

Hospital first to send e-reports in Mass.

A Boston-area hospital system announced it is the first in Massachusetts to implement electronic reporting of communicable diseases to the state health department.

Digital Government

17 more companies seek certification for EHR products

Results of second round of applications for "ambulatory" software certification are to be announced in late October.

Digital Government

St. Louis gets emergency patient-tracking system

The wireless system will collect information at the scene and alert hospitals and emergency managers of the nature and scope of incidents.

Digital Government

More EHR products get seal of approval

Certification commission begins second round of product reviews and looks forward to 2007

Digital Government

Guidelines target health records exchanges

A nonprofit organization on Thursday released guidelines for establishing health information exchanges. The guidelines are the most detailed cookbook developed so far.

Digital Government

Systems on front line against SARS

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened an emergency operations center in Atlanta in March, few in America had heard of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

Digital Government

IRS says e-filing is up 12.4 percent

Although the total number of federal income tax returns is lagging this year, electronically filed returns are up 12.4 percent, the IRS reported last month.

Management

Michigan orders some taxes e-filed

Michigan is joining two nearby states in requiring corporations and professional tax preparers with large numbers of customers to file income tax returns electronically.

Infrastructure

IRS: Modernization progresses'slowly

The new Customer Account Data Engine, which is at the heart of the IRS' massive modernization scheme, is running a year behind schedule, but tax agency officials said it should be ready for limited use next year.

Management

Michigan will require some to e-file income taxes

Michigan is joining two nearby states in requiring corporations and professional tax preparers with large numbers of customers to file income tax returns electronically.<br>

Digital Government

Where are they now...

This is GCN's 20th anniversary issue. Join us in a look at the people, policies and technologies that have shaped two decades of government IT. Those who worked on federal IT during the last 20 years were pioneers. There were few guides available as desktop computing replaced mainframes, relational databases replaced flat files, the Internet emerged and government became dependent on technology for many functions.

Digital Government

In sight, but within reach?

'Agencies should be prepared,' states a memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget, 'to indicate the status of the development, implementation, and maintenance of the agency ITA during the formulation of the ... President's budget.'

Digital Government

An architect eyes GSA's enterprise

Unlike most people who manage federal IT architecture development, Lew Sanford actually was trained in architecture'the bricks-and-mortar kind, that is. He studied architecture and urban planning as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech and says the discipline is useful in his work as the chief IT architect at the General Services Administration.