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Prof peer to peer to access medical files-> 0

Submitted by Gov IT on Friday February 27 2009, @07:27PM

Gov IT writes "Just days after President Obama signed a law giving billions of dollars to develop electronic health records, a university technology professor submitted a paper showing that he was able to uncover tens of thousands of medical files containing names, addresses and Social Security numbers for patients seeking treatment for conditions ranging from AIDS to mental health problems."
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http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/02/baker_obama 0

Submitted by Gov IT on Friday February 06 2009, @12:52PM

Gov IT writes "Obama administration is vetting Roger Baker, who has deep experience in federal IT, both in and out of government. If Baker were appointed, he would inherit a challenging IT environment at VA. The department has had some high profile security lapses and is working on an electronic health records system with the Defense Department, a project that was undertaken in response to the poor health care services that wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were received at Walter Reed hospital."

Trying to find White House missing e-mails-> 0

Submitted by Gov IT on Wednesday January 14 2009, @02:47PM

Gov IT writes "A federal court ordered on Wednesday all employees working in the Bush White House to surrender media that might contain e-mails sent or received during a two and a half year period in hope of locating missing messages before President-elect Barack Obama takes over next week."
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