Government Health IT will present Rick Friedman, director of the division of state systems for the Center for Medicaid and State Operations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 30 in an eSeminar discussing how the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is partnering with state Medicaid and health and human services officials to bring Medicaid into the digital age.

Medicaid is the single largest budget item for most state governments, absorbing in some cases a fifth of all state revenues. Currently, most of these costs are being managed by state Medicaid Management Information Systems, a complex of both manual and computer services that are costly to operate, poorly integrated and not standard across programs from one state to the next.

During the presentation, Mr. Friedman will address:

• Health IT as a tool to pmccloskey50.gif help state Medicaid managers focus on health outcomes instead of health claims.
• The success of CMS’ $150 million Transformation Grants program in incorporating health IT into Medicaid services management.
• How states are using health IT, including electronic health records systems, personal health record systems, Web services, and electronic prescribing technologies to transform Medicaid.
• The principles of the new Medicaid Information Technology Architecture, (MITA), a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based approach to Medicaid transformation planning.
• How health IT will address Medicaid and health services stove-pipes within state human services departments.

Paul McCloskey, Government Health IT editor, will moderate.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

Government Computer News will present Jack Nichols, manager, Enterprise Technology, for the U.S. House of Representatives, and Rich Zanatta, House Information Resources facility director, at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 in an eSeminar discussing how IT officials at the U.S. House of Representatives developed a fully-functional alternate IT services facility to support the day-to-day operations of every member and committee of the House in the event of a disaster.

During the eSeminar Mr. Nichols and Mr. Zanatta will walk through the requirements they had to meet, the environment they had to replicate, the IT issues they considered and why they made the decisions they made. Specifically, attendees will learn how the House of Representatives IT team:

• Assessed the server demands of every member of the House;
• Architected primary and secondary data centers;
• Approached storage area networks and tertiary data back ups; and
• Adjusted their IT strategy to incorporate emerging virtualization strategies.

GCN Editor in Chief Wyatt Kash will moderate.

Following the presentation, their will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

All 1105 Government Information Group eSeminars are free of charge.

Federal Computer Week will present Robert E. Greeves, a senior policy advisor to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and Paul Wormeli, executive director of the Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 24 in an eSeminar discussing homeland security issues.

During the eSeminar, Mr. Greeves and pwormeli50.gif Mr. Wormeli will address:

• The best ways to ensure there is governance around data standards;
• The keys to ensure adoption and use of data standards; and
• What the new Suspicious Activity Report standard adopted in February by the Program Manager-Information Sharing Environment means to the information bbain_50.gif sharing community.

FCW staff writer Ben Bain will moderate.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

This eSeminar is sponsored by GMRI.

Washington Technology will present Kevin Plexico, executive vice president of operations at INPUT, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 22 in an eseminar on upcoming contract opportunities in the government market.

During the eSeminar, Mr. Plexico will outline some of the largest contracts in the pipeline and explain what these contracts say about trends in the federal market. They include major procurements for the Defense and nwakeman50.gif Homeland Security departments and other agencies

Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman will moderate the InSight eSeminar.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

Government Computer News will present Tim Baldridge, principal engineer for the NASA Badge PIV Card issuance initiative and the Common Badging and Access Control System, at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 27 in an eSeminar discussing identity management and its challenges and benefits. During the presentation, Baldridge will address:

• What makes FIPS 201-1 issued PIV ID cards different from nonfederal ID cards;
• Reliance on third-party (other agency) identity vetting;
• Binding of identities to tokens;
• Backend attribute exchange, a framework to manage granting authorization between organizations;
• Recommendations for using Active Directory for wdizard50.gif secure ID management;
• What it means to be a federal PIV card issuer; and
• What is sanctioned under HSPD-12 and OMB guidance for agencies to rely on non-PCI smart cards.

Wilson Dizard III, GCN deputy news editor and senior writer, will moderate.

Following the presentation, their will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

This eSeminar is sponsored by Citrix.

Defense Systems will present LTC Richard Faulkner, project manager for the Contractor Management and Accountability Mission at Headquarters, U.S. Army Material Command, at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 20 in an eSeminar where he will discuss the military’s use of Radio Frequency Identification. During the eSeminar, Faulkner will address:

• Current issues surrounding providing oversight and management information on the contractor force supporting operations in Southwest Asia;
• The Department of Defense’s efforts to gain management control over contractors supporting contingency operations;
• Discuss federating technology and business processes is support of this initiative; and
• Discuss challenges and successes in gaining management oversight of contractors.

Defense Systems Editor Sean Gallagher will moderate.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire InSight eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

Government Computer News will present Peter Tseronis, chairman of the CIO Council’s IPv6 Working Group, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 in an eSeminar discussing the ways agencies can expect to benefit the most by moving to the next generation Internet address protocol.

During the eSeminar, Mr. Tseronis will address:

• How IPv6 will serve as a catalyst within the educational landscape;
• What's in store for the federal government after wkash60_IE.gif June 30, 2008; and
• How to market IPv6 throughout your agency and identify key stakeholders.

GCN Editor Wyatt Kash will moderate.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

Washington Technology will present Paul Cofoni, chief executive officer of CACI International Inc., at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 11 in an eSeminar where he will discuss merger and acquisition trends in the government market.

CACI was selected by Washington Technology as one of the top 10 dealmakers of 2007 for closing four deals in 12 months.

During the eSeminar, Cofoni will address:

• Why mergers and acquisitions are an important strategy for CACI;
• What trends in the government market make M&A activity necessary; and
• How M&A nwakeman50.gif is changing in the market and what the future looks like.

Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman will moderate the eSeminar, as well as present an overview of this year’s Washington Technology M&A Special Report.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire InSight eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

Government Health IT will present Jon White, M.D., director of health IT for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the nation's lead agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes and safety, at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 6 in an eSeminar discussing health IT centered on patient care.

During the presentation, Dr. White will address:

• Lessons learned from state government and regional public pilot projects using health IT to support health quality;
• How clinical decision support and other key health pmccloskey50.gif IT tools can improve patient centered care and bolster patient safety; and
• Management essentials on health IT tools and standards for measuring health care quality.

Government Health IT Editor Paul McCloskey will moderate.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire InSight eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

Federal Computer Week presents Kristopher L. Strance, a senior IT analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration/Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Office, in this recent eSeminar on the Department of Defense’s transition to Internet Protocol version 6.

Among the topics Mr. Strance addresses are:

• Why DOD is transitioning to IPv6;
• The “drivers” behind DOD's transition to IPv6;
• What IPv6 brings to the table (enablers) for DOD;
• DOD's IPv6 transition strategy (policy aspects); and
• Challenges in executing IPv6 transition.

FCW staff writer Matthew Weigelt moderates.

Following the presentation, there is a question-and-answer session.

This eSeminar is sponsored by Cisco Systems.

Federal Computer Week will present Judy Spencer, the chairwoman of the Federal Identity Credentialing Committee, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 in an eSeminar on Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and how it is making ID management more secure and authoritative.

As agencies continue to focus on the Oct. 27 deadline to issue secure identity cards that are compliant with HSPD-12, there is a nascent movement to focus on what happens once most employees and contractors have the IDs. HSPD-12 will secure agency networks and buildings, but more importantly it is giving agencies the possibility of authoritatively knowing who is who and what roles and responsibilities they have in the agency.

During the eSeminar, Ms. Spencer will address:

• How the idea of ID management has changed over the last 15 years, especially over the last three years?
• Why HSPD-12 is a major catalyst for improved ID management and what are the main challenges for agencies to use HSPD-12 cards as more than just a fancy ID card?
• How the concept of ID superiority is coming and what agencies need to do to prepare for it?

Jason Miller, Federal Computer Week news editor, will moderate.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

This eSeminar is sponsored by Novell.