VA Launches Enhanced E-Health Records Database

For veterans, the My HealtheVet website has implemented the first stage of an electronic personal health record, with new features that provide registered users with the ability to create and update personal health care records online, inclusive of personal information, military health history, medications (prescription and other), medical events, tests, and allergies.

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Privacy

FCC Declares VoIP Service Not Subject to State Regulation

FCC press release, 11/09/04: “The Federal Communications Commission declared today that a type of Internet telephony service offered by Vonage Holdings Corp. called DigitalVoice is not subject to traditional state public utility regulation. The Commission also stated that other types of IP-enabled services, such as those offered by cable companies, that have basic characteristics similar …

Subjects: Government Documents

Better Technology Needed in the Fight Against Spyware

FTC: Technology, not legislation, needed to fight spyware Orson Swindle, FTC Commission, and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute, believe that “technology is a better anti-spyware tool than legislation and that it is up to industry to solve the problem, not government.” See the Spy Act (H.R. 2929) and the Internet Spyware …

Subjects: Privacy

Cmte. on Gov’t Info Recommends Use of Uniform Resource Name

“Making Web data permanent – Uniform Resource Names can help users find government data no matter where it’s moved online, a group says.” [Link] Primary resource: Recommendations on Open Interoperable Standards for Search Identifiers [This draft document will be retired on completion of a recommendation by the U.S. Federal Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI), …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents