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Leroy Jones, Jr. is the creator of Talking Technology with Leroy Jones, Jr., as well as PoliticalJones.com. He is a Political Commentator and Government Affairs Consultant based in Washington, D.C. For over 20 years, Mr. Jones has worked in federal government affairs, including public service as an aide on both sides of Capitol Hill and the Clinton White House.

Mr. Jones is the host of The PoliticalJones Report with Leroy Jones, Jr. which airs on various radio stations nationwide every Monday and Thursday.

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TECH WAR

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The new battleground:

DOD Announces First U.S. Cyber Command and First U.S. CYBERCOM Commander

CyberCom gets new 4-star general as boss

CyberCom Is Seeking Real-Time Situational Awareness to Defend Military Network Attacks

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CYBER WARS

EASY TELEMEDICINE

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Making telemedicine easier:

CMS proposes less burdensome telemedicine credentialing rules

The walls keep tumbling down!

TWITTER ETERNITY

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Your tweets will last forever . . .

Uncle Sam Wants Your Tweets

More:

How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive

Library of Congress (LOC) Twitter Page Announcement

LOC Twitter Page: @librarycongress

How do you feel that?

You can let me know @technicaljones! :-)

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MAKING MONEY

TAX TIME

You still have time to file today either by mail or online:

Internal Revenue Service

Don't stress! :-)

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FED TECH

Easing into technology:

Restrictions eased for federal agencies that use
Twitter, blogs, wikis

VA - HEALTH IT

Leading the way in Health IT:

Department of Veterans Affairs spends big on Health IT, sees big return

BLOCKING THE INTERNET

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Are we seeing the first roadblocks on the information superhighway?

Closing the frontier

What's next?

FAST HEALTH CARE

The need for speed:

Fast Internet connections could improve health care

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Will faster mean better care?

What do you think?

EHR TIMELINE

The rush is on:

IT scurries to meet e-health records deadline

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More information on EHR - Talking Technology with Leroy Jones, Jr.:

"E-HEALTH RECORDS" - NEW SHOW

EMR RULES

OPEN EHR

E-MOVES

E-HEALTH GOLD

PERSONAL CONTROL OF E-HEALTH RECORDS

E-HEALTH TECHNOLOGY FOR THE BRAVE

HEALTH TERM - ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

E-SECURITY

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS . . . DOES IT HELP?

HEALTH TERMS - CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Definition: Is a Federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Programs for which CMS is responsible include Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), HIPAA and CLIA. Formerly was HCFA.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has historically maintained the UB-92 institutional EMC format specifications, the professional EMC NSF specifications, and specifications for various certifications and authorizations used by the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

CMS is responsible for oversight of HIPAA administrative simplification transaction and code sets, health identifiers, and security standards.

CMS also maintains the HCPCS medical code set and the Medicare Remittance Advice Remark Codes administrative code set.