Archives: Melissa Harris

Various modernization initiatives to improve public health have pivoted as a result of the pandemic.

Strategically building soft skills are critical to forming the future workplace, federal leaders say.

VA, USCIS and CMS tech leads are streamlining processes in an effort to enhance security practices.

Additional funding is providing $2.5 billion to the agency in supplemental block grant funding for states for pandemic-related stressors.

Tax credits and health equity are addressed in the new stimulus plan starting April 1.

HCD is improving CMS’s tools for cloud cost transparency and operational excellence.

The Joint Pathology Center's effort to upload 55 million samples of tissues could pave new opportunities in medical research and patient care.

The Veterans Health Administration has vaccinated 2 million veterans with at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and is working with veterans of color to bridge vaccination disparities as the agency pushes forward with its COVID-19 response.

The U.S. public has leaned into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services heavily for health care support this past year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and in turn CMS has leaned into data to provide better aid back to the people it serves.

The General Services Administration has received $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law last week.

Federal agencies are all looking to ramp up artificial intelligence capabilities, and while it takes the right workforce, data, ethics, governance and development to successfully deploy them, federal officials also highlight the importance of collaboration.

Federal health IT leaders are focusing on data, security, emerging technologies and human-centered design as some of their top priorities in the near term.