Monthly archives: July, 2010

Important New Data Added To Healthcare.Gov

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare Tool Compares Outpatient Care and Inpatient Mortality and Readmissions at More Than 4,700 Hospitals Across the Nation: “Important new information about the quality of care available in America’s outpatient and emergency departments, including how well hospitals care for patients with heart attacks and protect outpatients from surgical …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

US Postal Rate Commission Receives USPS Exigent Rate Adjustment Request

News release: “The Postal Regulatory Commission today received proposed rate changes for market dominant products, averaging about 5.6 percent, filed by the Postal Service to take effect on January 2, 2011. This is the first time the Postal Service has claimed that extraordinary or exceptional circumstances justify an increase that exceeds the cost of living …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Report: On Demand Government: Deploying Flexibilities to Ensure Service Continuity

On Demand Government: Deploying Flexibilities to Ensure Service Continuity, 07/01/2010 “Workplace flexibilities lead to economic efficiencies, including cost savings on real estate, infrastructure and energy usage, and improve how agencies deliver citizen services. Teleworking and other flexibilities also can help improve employee performance, job satisfaction and work-life balance, and decrease the costs of commuting by …

Subjects: Government Documents

The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review July 2010

Follow up to postings on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this news release: “The Independent Climate Change Email Review, undertaken by Sir Muir Russell and his team, has issued its report on issues arising from the publication of hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.” The Independent Climate Change …

Subjects: E-Mail, Government Documents

VA Launches Development of New Online Claims System

News release: “Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced today plans to develop a fully automated, online system for handling Veterans’ disability compensation claims. More than a simple digitization of existing paper-based claims, the new system is part of VA’s modernization of the end-to-end processing workflow. Automation will substantially reduce processing time and increase …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents

Report to the Postal Regulatory Commission on Civil Service Retirement System Cost and Benefit Allocation Principles

News release: PRC Report Finds $50 Billion Discrepancy – “The Postal Regulatory Commission submitted to Congress, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the United States Postal Service, an independent actuarial report on the allocation of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) benefits paid to former Post Office Department employees. The Postal Service asked for …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Overseas Contingency Operations, Cybersecurity

Overseas Contingency Operations: Comparison of the Department of Defense’s Overseas Contingency Operations Funding Requests for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, GAO-10-889R, July 06, 2010 Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development, GAO-10-466, June 03, 2010 Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) Program Faces Cost, Schedule and Performance Risks, GAO-10-758R, July 02, 2010

Subjects: Cybercrime, Government Documents, Internet, PC Security