Jeff Erlichman

 

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In a move suggesting how quickly cloud computing is becoming part of the government IT mainstream, the Office of Management and Budget is requiring agencies to itemize their cloud computing initiatives in fiscal 2014 budget plans.

The emphasis on cloud computing comes within the larger context of planned cuts to information technology spending. The guidance formalizes prior notices for agencies to “propose reductions in IT that represent 10% of their overall spending, and propose a reinvestment of at least 5%, and up to 10%, of these savings, in priority IT investments for OMB consideration.” Keep reading →

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) doctor aims to revolutionize a notoriously unpleasant medical test to identify a leading cause of cancer death.

Dr. Ronald M. Summers, M.D., Ph.D. pioneered the virtual colonoscopy. It uses non-invasive imaging similar to a CT scan to find polyps in the colon that are the precursor to cancer. Keep reading →


Are you sure the agency Facebook, YouTube or Twitter account you follow is legit? How do you know it’s an official government account?

Before now, you couldn’t. But now through the efforts of the General Services Administration’s new Social Media Registry you can. Keep reading →


The FreeStuff website is clearly a good idea.

So good it’s in the Savings section of the Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings (CCS) volume of the US FY2013 Budget proposal; so good it ranked 96th out of 3843 entries in the 2011 President’s SAVE Award contest. Keep reading →

Like all CIOs, Ivor D’Souza at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) wears many hats, spending countless hours taking care of both NLM’s internal and public-facing IT requirements.

He never thought of himself as an iPad app developer; nor an innovative exhibit planner. Now he is both. Keep reading →

This is the fourth in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace.

When a patient is told he has high blood pressure at an Indian Health Service (IHS) healthcare center, the doctor no longer simply provides him a prescription for medicine, but also an individualized handout from MedlinePlus Connect. Keep reading →

Cloud computing leaders from the governments of Canada, China, Japan and the United States pledged their continued international cooperation to fulfill cloud computing‘s potential to transform public services worldwide.

The leaders made their comments, while also touching on a range of legal, security and data standards issues during an executive session at the 5th annual Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Tuesday. Keep reading →


This is the third in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace.

By some measures, the data captured in Visible Human Project (VHP) is from another era – it dates back some 18 years to 1994. Yet this 20th century data – now available as an iPhone and iPad app – is still innovative enough to be the cornerstone of iAnatomy, one of five winners of the 2011 National Library of Medicine (NLM) “Show Off Your Apps Challenge”. Keep reading →

NIH’s Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, pictured in front of a display of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project.

This is the second in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace. Keep reading →

NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD.

This is the first in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace. Keep reading →

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