Coast Guard digitizes 40% of paper medical records

Coast Guard digitizes 40% of paper medical records

The service began the effort to digitize 45,000 paper health records in November 2022.

Michele Sandiford

April 22, 2025 1:58 pm

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• The Coast Guard has digitized 40% of its paper health records as of February. In a new update on the initiative, the Coast Guard said the goal is to completely digitize all paper health records by the third quarter of fiscal 2027. The service began the effort to digitize 45,000 paper health records in November 2022. Digitized records can be viewed on the MHS Genesis portal and are also accessible to the Department of Veterans Affairs for benefits delivery.
• Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets. The practice known as road diets has proven to reduce accidents. Now the Trump administration is heading in another direction. The Transportation Department’s new criteria for a federal road safety grant said plans to reduce traffic lanes will be viewed less favorably. The DOT now claims road diets can lead to a false sense of security.
• The Trump administration has proposed sweeping changes to the Foreign Service including how the State Department deploys its career diplomats. A draft executive order would require Foreign Service officers to serve for nine years in an assigned region before they’re eligible for other assignments. Foreign Service officers often serve at a post for three years, and move to another post in another country, and possibly a new continent, for their next assignment. But Foreign Service officers would be eligible to receive a “post of choice” tour anywhere in the world after serving a one-year term in a danger post. The draft EO would also require Foreign Service candidates to select which geographic locations they’d like to serve in before joining the agency’s diplomatic ranks.
• The Social Security Administration is giving its employees another chance to sign up for deferred resignation. SSA will give headquarters employees in positions deemed non-mission critical until Friday at noon to accept the offer. If approved, they will go on paid administrative leave starting May 5. SSA tells employees they will remain on paid administrative leave through the end of the fiscal year and that there will be no expectation to complete any work beyond May 5. Employees who take the deal are exempt from upcoming layoffs through a Reduction in Force.
• The Army has shut down at 15-year-old office to modernize and transform it’s business systems. The Army closed the Office of Enterprise Management as of April 1. The Army moved most of OEM’s functions to the service’s CIO’s office, Federal News Network has learned. The Army stood up the OEM in September 2023, replacing the Office of Business Transformation, which the service established in 2010. The Office of Enterprise Management focused on business management initiatives, including planning and implementing reforms and business processes improvements. At the same time, Tom Sasala, the deputy director of OEM since January 2023, is the new executive director of the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA).
• Agencies modernizing their financial management systems have a new option in the governmentwide marketplace. The Bureau of Fiscal Service said Creoal Consulting is now the second private sector company to offer a standards-based core financial system. The other one is CGI Federal. The White House told agencies in March to use the offerings in the financial management marketplace when consolidating and modernizing their financial systems. There are currently 18 private sector and four federal shared services in the financial management marketplace offering more than 120 solutions and services.
• Two top leaders are resigning from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Bob Lord and Lauren Zaiberek separately announced this week that they will be stepping down from CISA. Both Lord and Zaiberek are senior advisors at CISA who have spearheaded the agency’s Secure by Design initiative in recent years. Their announcements come after the Department of Homeland Security opened up a second round of deferred resignations to CISA employees earlier this month. DHS leaders are reportedly looking to make large workforce cuts at CISA.

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