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Significant Attention Is Needed to Address High-Risk Areas – Homeland Security Today
The federal government spends more than $100 billion on IT and cyber-related investments annually—but many of them have failed or performed poorly, have been poorly managed, and have security weaknesses. Improving IT acquisitions and operations management and ensuring cybersecurity have been on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk List since 2015 and 1997, respectively. GAO …
Significant Attention Is Needed to Address High-Risk Areas
What GAO Found In its March 2021 high-risk series update, GAO reported that significant attention was needed to improve the federal government’s management of information technology (IT) acquisitions and operations, and ensure the nation’s cybersecurity. Regarding management of IT, overall progress in addressing this area has remained unchanged. Since 2019, GAO has emphasized that the …
Intermountain Healthcare, Utah medical school launch program to address health disparities
Hannah Mitchell – Monday, April 12th, 2021 Print | Email Intermountain Healthcare is teaming up with the University of Utah’s medical school to develop a new program that addresses population health and encourages physicians to stay in the region. In an April 8 news release, Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare said it’s investing $50 million over …
Better data is critical to address health disparities in air pollution’s impacts
This post originally appeared on the EDF Global Clean Air Blog. Ananya Roy, Senior Health Scientist, and Maria Harris, Environmental Epidemiologist The last several months have seen a wave of momentum in policies seeking toward advance environmental justice and equity through better data collection and mapping. In his first week in office, President Biden signed …
Live updates: Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Pichai address online extremism and misinformation before House committee
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will emphasize the company’s newest initiatives for battling misinformation and the need to build trust with users during his testimony before Congress. It’s the executive’s fifth time testifying, including his November appearance in the wake of the 2020 election. That time, Dorsey eventually got around to defending the company’s efficacy in …
Southern Tier school districts address health precautions amid upcoming spring break | WETM
ELMIRA, N.Y (WETM) – Spring break is upon students in New York State. In a few weeks, local school districts will be taking their spring breaks starting in April. Nationwide, there are more health concerns as spring breakers react to the nation reopening and more CDC guidelines relax. “We want to make sure that our …
Local teens lend a helping hand to address student mental health
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — After more than a year of isolation, mental health remains a concern for students across the Las Vegas valley. Although getting professional treatment is beneficial, kids sometimes need another avenue to seek help. Some organizations are getting teens involved in providing peer-to-peer resources, when it comes to conversations about mental health …
Astuto Technologies helps green industries on Cape address IT needs
Denise Coffey | Cape Cod Times Hernani Del Giudice faced three big challenges upon his journey from the Dominican Republic to America: getting through immigration, learning the English language and finding a job. It took three years before Del Giudice could get into the country after marrying his American-born wife, Alexis Mahon. But English didn’t …
Health experts address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
MADISON (WKOW) — Questions and concerns about vaccines among the public are nothing new, and with the rapid development and availability of COVID-19 vaccines, those questions may create a hesitancy in some patients. UW Health says questions about the vaccines can be fueled by natural skepticism, confusion from media reports, or online misinformation. Where lingering …
Biden seeks to chart a path out of the pandemic in prime-time address
With new infections and deaths way down from their peaks of a horrific winter, Biden can afford to conjure hope that better days may be imminent and will speak to the nation from a position of political strength. He is also armed with a newly passed $1.9 trillion Covid-19 rescue package — his first major …
