Melissa Harris
Senior Researcher
Melissa Harris is currently a Media Content Lead at Fors Marsh based in Arlington, Virginia. Previously, Melissa was a Senior Researcher at GovCIO Media & Research.
Emerging technologies and advances in infrastructure are making data across federal health agencies more actionable.
The IRS plans to push forward with its modernization initiatives and improve taxpayer customer service and accessibility, among other initiatives, as part of its proposed $13.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2022.
An organization formed by the General Services Administration to spur robotic process automation adoption at federal agencies has seen automations grow by 110% across government agencies from 2019 to 2020.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is focusing on making health care system interoperability more robust and preventing information-blocking across health IT networks and information exchanges, National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi said.
The agency's SEED and extramural research offices are pushing for more equity and diversity in partnerships.
The IRS is aiming to digitally communicate with taxpayers and tax professionals more effectively and securely through a recently launched Taxpayer Digital Communications (TDC) system.
Cloud adoption is accelerating research capabilities and mission needs at the National Institutes of Health, the institutes' Center for Information Technology Director and CIO Andrea Norris said at the SXSW conference this week.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is looking to develop an omni-channel customer experience through its eMedicare initiative, and it’s using Agile processes and developing a data strategy to get there.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been progressing on existing and new digital initiatives driven by human-centered design, and the leaders of those projects say their work has transformed veterans’ experiences and interactions with the agency.
Congress is looking to improve the country’s mental health infrastructure, response protocol and resources as mental illness challenges continue to rise.
The Air Force, VA and NASA encourage communication, training and empowerment to better adoption of agile software development methods.
The nearly quarter increase in funding would largely go toward strengthening public health preparedness.