Category «E-Records»

FasterCures Releases Report Calling for Inclusion of Clinical Research in Nationwide Health Information Network

Press release: “Building clinical research into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) will enable faster discovery and verification of treatments and cures, according to a report released today by FasterCures. The report, Ensuring the Inclusion of Clinical Research in the Nationwide Health Information Network, details steps to help speed the implementation of Electronic Health Record …

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Subjects: E-Records, Privacy

U.S. Deputy AG Mcnulty Revises Charging Guidelines for Prosecuting Corporate Fraud

Press release: “U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced today during a speech at a meeting of the Lawyers for Civil Justice in New York that the Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Thompson Memorandum, which was issued in January …

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Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

GAO Audit of Navy Marine Corps Intranet

Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers, Full-text GAO-07-51, and Highlights, December 8, 2006. “The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is a 10-year, $9.3 billion information technology services program. Through a performance-based contract, the Navy is buying network (intranet), application, and other hardware and …

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

White Paper on Framework for Networked Personal Health Information

Markle Foundation – Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: A Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information (41 pages, PDF): “A white paper that describes a networked environment in which consumers could establish secure electronic connections with multiple entities that hold personal health information about them. The paper discusses how consumer participation in networked environments …

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Subjects: E-Records

FBI Audit of Sentinel Investigative Case Management System

Sentinel Audit II: Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Case Management System (Redacted), Audit Report 07-03, December 2006 (PDF – Full Report) Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Ranking Member And Incoming Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, On DOJ OIG Report On FBI Computer System Project, December 4, 2006: “Today’s finding by the Department of …

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Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

USACM Urges Feds to Adopt Software Independent E-voting Systems

U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery: “…the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper recommending that federal standards allow certification only for “software independent” (i.e. ones that create a paper trail) e-voting systems. A key technical panel will consider and vote upon the recommendations this [week]. Calling these …

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

Electronically Stored Information Target of New Rules

The Third Branch: “On December 1, 2006, amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16, 26, 33, 34, 45 and revisions to Form 35 will take effect unless Congress enacts legislation to reject, modify or defer them. These amendments and revisions are all aimed at one particular area of discovery—electronically stored information, meaning all information …

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Subjects: E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research
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