Wednesday, January 21, 2026

HIPAA Journal: CISA Publishes Guidance on Protecting Sensitive Data and Responding to Double-Extortion Ransomware Attacks

"Ransomware attacks dramatically increased in 2020 and cyberattacks using the file-encrypting malware are showing no sign of abating. Attacks...

GovernmentCIO: Digital Services Improve CMS Call Center Operations

"COVID-19 spurred a mass transition to a virtual environment, with public-facing federal agencies' customer service phone lines experiencing large...

Federal News Network: VA still lacks a clear picture of its workforce needs, auditors say

"The Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t have a clear sense of how many people it needs to accomplish certain...

Telehealth & Telecare Aware: Breaking: Google Health shutting down, most employees scattered to other divisions

"Google Health is disbanding, according to an ‘insider’ report in the (paywalled) Business Insider, reported secondarily in Becker’s Health...

SmallGovCon: Number of Small Businesses Awarded Federal Government Contracts Has Dropped 12.7% in Four Years

“The number of small businesses receiving government contracts dropped yet again in Fiscal Year 2020–and the four-year decline is...

Protest: $17M HHS AHRQ Patient Safety and Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD) Systems contract

A protest has been levied related to this 5-year task with the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with tasks to include providing guidance to PSOs in the use of Common Formats; rendering patient safety event information non-identifiable; tracking and maintaining data use agreement with PSOs; establishing software certification processes; and providing technical assistance to PSOs on various data submission methods. The post Protest: $17M HHS AHRQ Patient Safety and Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD) Systems contract appeared first on G2Xchange Health, a service of MileMarker10.

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