Category «E-Government»

National Academies Report on Preventing Medication Errors

“At the urging of the Senate Finance Committee, the United States Congress mandated that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sponsor a study by the IOM to address the problem of medication errors. Preventing Medication Errors puts forward a national agenda for reducing medication errors based on estimates of the incidence and cost of such …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

GAO Report on Hospital Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Preparedness: Limitations in Federal Evacuation Assistance for Health Facilities Should be Addressed GAO-06-826, and Highlights, July 20, 2006. “Hurricane Katrina demonstrated difficulties involved in evacuating communities and raised questions about how hospitals and nursing homes plan for evacuations and how the federal government assists. Due to broad-based congressional interest, GAO assessed the evacuation of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

House Report Identifies Post 9/11 Security Efforts Unfulfilled

House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff report, To Secure America: The 9/11 Commission’s Homeland Security Recommendations (33 pages, PDF), “provides a side-by-side comparison of 9/11 Commission recommendations, notable action taken to realize these recommendations, and critical efforts that must still be accomplished.”

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Amnesty International Releases Report on Search Engine Censorship in China

Press release: “Amnesty International (AI) today released a new report, “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China,” (32 pages, PDF) exposing how Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google have violated their stated corporate values and policies in pursuit of the potentially lucrative Chinese market. In sync with the report release, the organization unveiled irrepressible.info, a new campaign for …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Government, Search Engines

Agencies Propose Rules on Identity Theft Red Flags and Notices of Address Discrepancy

FTC press release: “The federal financial institution regulatory agencies and the Federal Trade Commission are soliciting comments on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) concerning identity theft “red flags” and address discrepancies. The NPRM, which has been reviewed and approved by each of the listed agencies, implements sections 114 and 315 of the Fair and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, ID Theft, Privacy

Producer Price Indexes – June 2006

Producer Price Index News Release text (20 pages, PDF) Technical notes Table 1. Producer price indexes and percent changes by stage of processing Table 2. Producer price indexes and percent changes for selected commodity groupings by stage of processing Table 3. Producer price indexes for selected commodity groupings Table 4. Producer price indexes for the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

GAO Audit of Global War on Terrorism

Global War on Terrorism [GWOT]: Observations on Funding, Costs, and Future Commitments, Full-text GAO-06-885T, and Highlights, July 18, 2006. “Since 2001, Congress has appropriated about $430 billion to DOD and other government agencies for military and diplomatic efforts in support of GWOT…neither DOD nor the Congress reliably know how much the war is costing and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents