
HCFA plans national Medicare Y2K testing week
NOVEMBER 4, 1999 . . . 17:30 EST The Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency in charge of Medicare, today announced that it has designated Nov. 15-20 as National MedicareYear 2000 Testing Week, enabling health care providers to evaluate their billing systems in an end-to-end test with Medicare systems.
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Navy builds case against DOD network
NOVEMBER 3, 1999 . . . 18:33 EST The Navy is building a case for setting up its own network to help support its multibillion-dollar agencywide intranet rather than relying wholly on the Defense Department's mandated network, a Navy official said Tuesday.
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Cyberattacks against DOD up 300 percent this year
NOVEMBER 3, 1999 . . . 18:21 EST The number of cyberattacks reported this year against the Defense Department's information networks has more than tripled compared with last year, according to the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
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DOT, FAA say systems are Y2K ready
NOVEMBER 2, 1999 . . . 17:59 EST Systems that operate lighting, emergency response and radio communications at the nation's 565 airports are expected to work properly through the Year 2000 date rollover, according to Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials.
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U.S. savings bonds available via the Net
NOVEMBER 2, 1999 . . . 17:03 EST The Treasury Department today launched a new Internet site that for the first time will allow the public to buy savings bonds online.
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Hill threatens to cut IT funds
NOVEMBER 1, 1999 Congress may cut off funding for some of the Defense Department's
mission-critical information systems after March 31 unless the Pentagon's chief
information officer can prove the department is managing the systems in
compliance with the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act.
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After years of widespread competition, the desktop optical character
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FileMaker good for small workgroups
There are times when you want to have a desktop
or small workgroup-level database on hand. Perhaps
you need to quickly construct a report from a small
amount of data or test an interagency data transfer
procedure. In these instances, it does not make
sense to contact your enterprise database
administrator. Instead, take a look at FileMaker
Inc.'s FileMaker Pro 5.0.
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Tools and Technology for Locking Up
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