Allison Ling

DevOps and Agile processes helped U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) transition smoothly to mass telework at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but Deputy CIO Yemi Oshinnaiye said its success came down to culture.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help improve data-sharing practices for better public health outcomes, a senior government official and an infectious disease epidemiologist said at a GovCIO Media & Research event in 2020.

Federal IT leaders stressed the importance of making IT modernization and investment an integral part of agencies’ missions and called for increases to the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) in order to meet new demands in telework and delivery of government services.

Leaders from the National Institutes of Health and Health and Human Services said last week at GoCIO Media & Research's Digital Health Modernization virtual event that their agencies have increased the openness and availability of public health data, especially as a means of accelerating health IT development and pandemic response. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is getting ready to support millions of people looking to purchase health care coverage next month through Healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace.

There’s a reason the phrase “it takes a village” remains such a popular adage. In government, implementing large-scale projects is always a huge undertaking. The 2020 Census is no different. 

Lawmakers and public health experts are pushing for greater standardization of health data to improve public health response efforts and research outcomes.

COVID-19 has caused shutdowns and isolation, increasing mental health distress for many Americans and making it difficult to access in-person treatment for mental health disorders.

If one good thing came of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the expansion of telehealth and digital health services.

The Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate doesn’t usually work with other federal agencies, but this year, the directorate modified technology that detects explosives using lasers for the Defense Department's research arm.

The House Armed Services Committee’s Future of Defense Task Force's 2020 final report says the military should cut back on expensive obsolete weapons programs and accelerate innovation in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. 

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is prioritizing suicide prevention research and promoting digital counseling resources to help mitigate and manage mental health risks during the COVID-19 pandemic.