Great read about the bumps that the Obama team have encountered to replicate the communiation apparatus used during the campaign in the White House.
Entries Tagged as ‘Policy’
March 1, 2009
Obama EMT investment – Government reacting to market failure
NYT story notes how the investment to create incentives to single practice physicians is classic textbook reactionto market failure:
… only about 17 percent of the nation’s physicians are using computerized patient records, according to a government-sponsored survey published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine.“This is really not a technology problem,” observed Erik [...]
February 25, 2009
Another hub in the cybersecurity Network
Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke is slated to be appointed Secretary of Commerce:
Experience in technology policy will also be important for the next commerce secretary, Cantwell said, since he will have to appoint the next director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, oversee the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and provide leadership on [...]
February 25, 2009
Security, Privacy, Interoperability
These terms are strongly related, inter-related to be more precise, and have a significant effect upon the level of trust and confidence that any information system engenders with its users. Separately dealing with each attributed of a network, as though the relationship between each term were independent, is not good design. Yet, read the following [...]
February 24, 2009
Regulatory Transparency – will it change your behavior?
A relatively new policy tool, mandatory disclosure of infromation with a regulatory intent, is being proposed as a means to deal with the net neutrality issue. In an article announcing Obama’s choice of Leibowitz as FTC chair, Cnet reports:
On the issue of Net neutrality, Leibowitz stood out from his colleagues in June 2007 when the [...]
February 20, 2009
Cyber Policy – Tracking law breakers
Seems some folks in Congress believe that all access point providers should maintain a log of users to be accessible by law enforcement.
Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, [...]
February 19, 2009
Cyber Security Policy Tools – parental control
What you don’t know, can hurt your kids:
Because parents generally don’t understand that Internet features exist on these devices, they are not supervising their use (other than for choice of game content for sex or violence). They are often shocked to learn that their kids are using voice-over-Internet phone technologies (VoIP) to scream at or [...]
February 17, 2009
Implications of InVitro research
NYT post on risks of IVF — interesting in light of efforts by the BioEthics Defense Fund to curtail IVF in light of the California octuplets story.
February 16, 2009
EMR – Need for standards and training critical to stimulus success
Post notes several barriers to successful implementation of an EMR system for US.
Although the federal government set a goal five years ago of creating an electronic health record for every American by 2014, the effort has lagged for several reasons. Roadblocks include concerns over lack of universal protocols for collecting data as well as rules [...]
February 16, 2009
Education Policy – Efficiency
Can colleges be both efficient and serve as the incubator for future discoveries and future leaders?
… public colleges, which serve two-thirds of all four-year college students, are also increasingly expensive and inaccessible, he said. Tuitions there have increased at the same rate as that of the private institutions—about 3 percent above inflation—and promise to increase [...]
