http://www.cioinsight.com Government - RSS Feeds en-us Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:23:37 -0500 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:23:37 -0500 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:41:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Patent-Reform-Battle-Shifts-to-Senate/?kc=rss - Having failed to stop patent reform in the U.S. House of Representatives, opponents are now focusing on the Senate. In a letter sent Tuesday to Senate leaders, more than 400 organizations ranging from biotech to grocers urged lawmakers to make significant changes to legislation approved on Sept. ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Patent-Reform-Battle-Shifts-to-Senate/?kc=rss Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:53:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/IT-Problems-Hinder-Data-Sites-That-Combat-Terrorism/?kc=rss - While more terrorism data centers are coming online and the ones in operation are starting to produce valuable information, the officials who run these sites face a number of challenges regarding information sharing, personnel, and funding, according to the testimony of a government official. Fus...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/IT-Problems-Hinder-Data-Sites-That-Combat-Terrorism/?kc=rss Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Pressure-Increases-but-CIOs-Still-Struggle-to-Stop-Identity-Theft/?kc=rss - It's been a bad year for privacy. Since February, when identity thieves conned data aggregator ChoicePoint Inc. out of 145,000 personal records that contained Social Security numbers, addresses and credit accounts, there have been upward of 60 incidents involving lost or stolen confidential data, ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Pressure-Increases-but-CIOs-Still-Struggle-to-Stop-Identity-Theft/?kc=rss Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Recipe-for-Foolproof-Encryption/?kc=rss - To create a virtually foolproof encryption program, begin with desktop computers and the network to which they are connected. First, sensitive and confidential information on corporate servers and databases must be identified and marked for encoding; then, encryption software automatically encodes a...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Recipe-for-Foolproof-Encryption/?kc=rss Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:35:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Unifying-Health-IT-Bill-Filed-in-Senate/?kc=rss - The long-anticipated Clinton-Frist health IT bill has been filed in the Senate. It is similar to a bill introduced last month in the House that would provide grants and loans to allow health information systems to be shared between clinical labs, hospitals and doctors' offices. The bill would...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Unifying-Health-IT-Bill-Filed-in-Senate/?kc=rss Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:15:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Health-IT-MA-Grows-in-Q1/?kc=rss - In the first quarter of this year, there were 22 merger and acquisition deals for health care information technology companies. That number is an increase of 69 percent over the previous quarter and 47 percent over the same quarter one year ago, according to a recent report from health care market r...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Health-IT-MA-Grows-in-Q1/?kc=rss Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:56:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Entrepreneurs-Set-Their-Sights-on-Flight/?kc=rss - After an ambitious entrepreneur strikes it rich in the computer industry, starting yet another software company or dot-com may not be exciting enough. For some industry veterans, the future is in the skies. Esther Dyson, longtime host of the PC Forum conference, responded to this trend with a new...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Entrepreneurs-Set-Their-Sights-on-Flight/?kc=rss Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:48:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Public-Companies-Find-SarbOx-Compliance-Expensive/?kc=rss - Companies are spending much more than originally anticipated to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to a recent survey. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires all public companies to establish an ironclad method of developing and maintaining an internal co...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Public-Companies-Find-SarbOx-Compliance-Expensive/?kc=rss Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Patents-Cast-Shadow-on-Future-Development/?kc=rss - Software patents, in the idiom of the Star Wars saga, are the Dark Side of the Force. If everyone would forswear their power to destroy, the universe would be a better place but that happy state is dangerously unstable. As soon as even one of the defenders of peace and justice falls into the vor...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Government/Patents-Cast-Shadow-on-Future-Development/?kc=rss