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FedScoop: HHS acquisition expert to blockchain doubters: ‘You are very close to being irrelevant’

“… HHS’s associate deputy assistant secretary for acquisition minced no words Friday when talking about the ReImagine HHS initiative, saying that the mix of artificial intelligence, blockchain and machine learning is the wave of a not-too-distant future that federal tech executives need to get on board with.”

“For the federal chief technology officers, the federal chief information officers that don’t stand up on a stage and say that this technology won’t work and kind of post little things at night on Facebook or Twitter saying they actually disagree with this capability, you are very close being irrelevant,” he said. “Because when we get this [authority to operate], you will be irrelevant.”

“Detailing the project at the General Services Administration’s Future Services Now conference…” Read the full article here.

Source: HHS acquisition expert to blockchain doubters: ‘You are very close to being irrelevant’ – By Carten Cordell, October 12, 2018. FedScoop.

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Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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