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My Interview on WFED Radio
Here is a link to my interview on WFED radio by Francis Rose, broadcast Friday during the In Depth radio show. I provided some thoughts about the role of the Inspectors General relating to cybersecurity, and other IT, oversight.
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Oversight in the Federal Government – The Underutilized Part
One of the things I learned during my time as the Chief Information Officer at the US Department of Transportation is that one of the core competencies of the Federal Government is looking over someone else’s shoulder, that is the provision of oversight. The CIO has three major organizational best friends providing helpful advice. First…
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My Political Theory Class
This semester I am not only teaching classes, two IT related classes at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), but also taking graduate classes, two Government and Politics graduate classes at the University of Maryland College Park. So every Tuesday afternoon and evening I attend two almost three hour classes, the first focusing on…
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Having Pride in Your Children
It is a very natural thing for a parent to feel pride in your children’s accomplishments. As both of my daughters remind me, I am biased (they are, of course, wrong, I am totally objective about each of them; I just happen by coincidence to have the best two daughters ever) and my job is…
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Article on the Panel I Moderated at the Federal Health IT Summit
Nice follow-up article in Fierce Mobile Healthcare regarding the panel I moderated here.
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Health IT – Mobility, Wearables, and the Internet of Things
A remarkable statistic that was presented during the panel discussion I moderated yesterday at the first Federal Health IT summit hosted by ATARC, the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, was that medical errors in hospitals are the third leading cause of death in the United States. The focus of the panel directly and indirectly dealt…
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Today’s Argument – Biopic
I have had the fortune to spend much of the last 30-some years being improved by Ellen. Remarkably I find that no matter how much she corrects, I still have much work that is needed to be done. The context of this thought resulted from my mentioning this morning that there is a new biopic…
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More Efficient Mail Delivery
It occurs to me that if we were able to connect our mailbox to the recycling bin in some automated fashion, it would would increase efficiency.
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The Importance of Storytelling
Over the last year or so, I decided to focus a bit more on academic opportunities. I have attempted to become a better professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), helped start a non-profit focused on increasing academic involvement with government (ATARC), and this semester signed up for two graduate courses at the University…
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Gone Girl
Last night, as part of the Ellen birthday set of events, culminating in her long-desired trip to New Orleans in December, we went to see Gone Girl (chosen as an alternative to Nightcrawler, and partially because Ellen does not want to see a key character that reminded her of the Michelin tire guy). I am not…
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