Health care professionals face unique risks when it comes to complying with Designated Health Services regulations, and understanding how to mitigate these risks is essential for protecting your organization. On this special 50th episode of Health Care Beat, co-hosts Chris DeMeo and Amanda Genovese are joined by Mike Lu, Chief Operating Officer, and David Way, Chief Executive Officer, of Full Spectrum Healthcare Management Services. The group discusses key legal considerations surrounding Designated Health Services and provides actionable insights on how to navigate these complexities.

Protecting Against Liability in Designated Health Services: Insights for Health Care Professionals

Here is a vinyl mix I made recently with old school bleep tracks mixed in with newer bleep tracks.  The video of the vinyl mix will go on my YouTube eventually.

DrGiggles- Bleep Techno -Bleeps and Bass - Vinyl Mix Vol 21

Recent research by the nonprofit U.S. Digital Response and the National Association of State Chief Information Officers examined what vendors don’t like about states’ request for proposal documents. The work was dead simple, as was the solution they proposed: Just put a cover sheet on your RFPs. Waldo Jaquith, a government delivery manager with USDR, joins StateScoop’s Priorities Podcast to explain the findings and why he thinks this one simple change could not only save vendors time, but improve the quality of responses that states get when they’re making purchases.

This week’s top stories:

In a letter addressed to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Norm last week, 21 Republican secretaries of state asked for improvements to her department’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, program, so they can more easily detect noncitizens who are voting in elections.

According to a recent report published by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, state and local governments need to adopt a more “whole-of-state” approach to cybersecurity, involving all levels of government in policy and strategic planning in order to better protect critical infrastructure.

In recognition of the growing threats posed by artificial intelligence, a new security advisory committee in Arizona has published its first recommendations, including one to create an AI elections lab that can fine tune election-specific AI models for use by election offices. 
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One really simple way to improve state RFPs

When the Trump administration began sidelining and laying off personnel at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, it started by targeting employees who worked on election security and disinformation. At the same time, the Department Homeland Security announced it would conduct a comprehensive review of CISA’s election security mission. Last week, the agency confirmed that it has completed the review, but said that its findings won’t be released to the public. A spokesperson for the agency said: “The assessment that CISA has undertaken is internal and will help inform how the agency moves forward to best support critical infrastructure. This is an internal document that is not planned to be released publicly.” A DHS spokesperson told CyberScoop in an email that the department had nothing else to share at this time.

Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing all Defense Department components to embrace a rapid software acquisition pathway and use commercial solutions opening and Other Transaction authority to speed up the procurement of digital tools for warfighters. The department’s Software Acquisition Pathway was set up during the first Trump administration under then Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord as part of a broader push for a so-called Adaptive Acquisition Framework that enables the department to procure software differently than it buys hardware. Programs on that pathway are not subject to some of the encumbrances associated with the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System and major defense acquisition program designations. Now, Hegseth wants to make sure all DOD components are taking advantage of the pathway.

CISA completed its election security review but won’t make the results public; Secretary Hegseth issues a new directive on DOD software acquisition

The Department of Homeland Security has selected Antoine McCord as its new chief information officer, a spokesperson with the agency’s Management Directorate confirmed Friday.
As CIO, McCord will be tasked with overseeing DHS’s roughly $11 billion IT budget, the largest of any federal agency in fiscal 2025. A bio for McCord on the DHS website said he “emphasizes mission-driven leadership, focusing on operations to neutralize threats against the Department.” Details about McCord’s background are scarce, beyond what’s contained in that DHS bio page. According to the agency, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, specializing in cyber and intelligence operations and “gaining hands-on experience in threat detection and technology integration.” After his time with the Marines, McCord joined the U.S. Intelligence Community, according to DHS, in roles that saw him oversee cyber operations against advanced threats and serve as an adviser on national security issues. McCord will be stepping into a CIO role that was filled during the Biden administration by Eric Hysen, who also led the department’s artificial intelligence efforts. Hysen, a Google alum and a founding member of the White House’s U.S. Digital Service, oversaw the creation of DHS’s AI Corps, the publication of an AI roadmap and the release of commercial generative AI guidance.

Firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have former workers, lawmakers, and advocates concerned about impact on the agency’s efforts to produce climate and weather information critical to public safety. NOAA is one of many federal agencies in the U.S. that has cut probationary workers in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce the size of the federal government. While critics of the Trump administration have argued the rapid and widespread staffing reductions could have adverse consequences across the government, the picture they paint with respect to NOAA’s terminations is particularly grim. That’s because the agency’s mission impacts every American, former NOAA workers told FedScoop. The recent cuts to staff put that work at risk, particularly for areas at the agency where staffing levels were already an issue, they said. What’s more, there are areas outside of staffing cuts where efficiencies could have been achieved through consolidating work and technology advancements.

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A new CIO at the Department of Homeland Security

The Puzzle | Episode #33| ProOne79

Photo credit: Lizgrin F

Tracklist

Snuff Crew - Go Back [Killekill]
Lumi - Glistening [Kneaded Pains]
Tiger Stripes - Goddess [Rekids]
Hilit Kolet - I Want Your Soul
ProOne79 - Wild Groove [Flashmob Records]
Kevin Saunderson, E-Dancer, Dantiez - Emotions [One House]
Sarah Story, Hilit Kolet - Miss Behave [Stories]
DHS - The House of God (Warehousz Remix)
Riley - In My Soul (Edit)
The Hacker - Harmonia [Rekids]
Actors - In Real Life (Dave Clarke Remix) [Artoffact]
Heckmann & Henze - Stoned Free
Roku - Acid Amnesia [Hardgroove]
ProOne79 - XTC Machine [WRKTRX]

The Puzzle |  Episode #33 | ProOne79

The Department of State is continuing to expand its artificial intelligence chatbot known as StateChat, including working toward a mobile version and the ability to query internal messages called cables. That’s what John Silson, director of analytics in the State Department’s Center for Analytics, recently told FedScoop reporter Madison Alder during an SNG Live event on AI and Automation. During the conversation, they touched on how State is continuing to iterate on StateChat, how the department is working to maxmize adoption, the importance of context in prompting and what comes next.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reopening the deferred resignation program and also offering early retirement to eligible civilian workers as he seeks to “maximize participation.” Hegseth signed a memo on Friday, “Initiating the Workforce Acceleration and Recapitalization Initiative,” that was directed to senior Pentagon leadership, combatant commands, and defense agency and field activity directors. The move comes as department leaders are looking to shed civilian employees and reinvest the savings elsewhere as part of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency efforts. Hegseth said DOD is offering the deferred resignation opportunity, as well as Voluntary Early Retirement Authority, to all eligible civilian employees, noting that exemptions wil be rare. He wrote in a March 28 memo: “My intent is to maximize participation so that we can minimize the number of involuntary actions that may be required to achieve the strategic objectives.”

Karen Evans, a longtime government IT official who previously held the role that preceded the creation of the federal chief information officer, was nominated last week to serve as undersecretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security. Evans, whose nomination has been referred to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined the Trump administration earlier this year as executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Evans’ role at CISA was one of the most prominent cyber jobs in the federal government, leading the agency’s “mission to protect and strengthen federal civilian agencies and the nation’s critical infrastructure against cyber threats,” per an official description of the position. Before joining CISA, Evans spent the previous three-plus years working as the managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute, a nonprofit geared toward educating and creating free cyber tools for small- and medium-sized businesses. For much of George W. Bush’s administration, Evans served as administrator of the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology. 

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How the State Department is evolving use of its StateChat chatbot

Just days into his latest run as president, Donald Trump fired 17 inspectors general acoss the federal government. The move not only set off alarms in the government oversight and accountability community, but it also set an early precedent for how the Trump administration would deal with any entities he saw as threatening to his agenda as president. Diana Shaw has spent much of her career in the shoes of federal inspectors general, having served as acting IG of the State Department and a variety of roles in DHS’s Office of the IG, before retiring from government in 2024. So she knows as good as anyone, through her continued connections and deep experience, how IGs in the Trump administration are navigating the current dynamic, what’s at play as they maneuver around the work of the DOGE and how things wil continue to unfold. Now a partner at DC law firm Wiley Rein LLP, Shaw joins the Daily Scoop to discuss all that as well as her thoughts on one of the biggest IG cases: the Pentagon’s probe into the secretary of defense’s use of commercial messaging applications like Signal to conduct official business.

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency team is examining the Navy’s software enterprise, the service’s chief information officer said Tuesday. The review comes as the administration is undertaking a broad look at the Defense Department’s and other federal agencies’ contracts and workforce in search of what it considers wasteful spending and opportunities for savings.

After accessing data at the Department of Homeland Security, including systems operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now appears to be behind a new effort to shrink the agency’s staff. On Monday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sent a message to employees encouraging them to leave the agency, according to an email viewed by FedScoop. The message explained details of deferred resignation, voluntary early retirement, and voluntary separation incentive payment programs. 

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Navigating the Trump administration as an inspector general

The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is set to leave the tax agency, according to a source familiar with the situation, a move that comes after the Treasury Department signed an agreement to share taxpayers’ information with the Department of Homeland Security. Melanie Krause, who joined the IRS in October 2021 as the agency’s chief data and analytics officer, is taking the federal government’s deferred resignation offer and was not pushed to resign, according to the source. A Government Accountability Office and Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General alum, Krause was elevated to acting commissioner from chief operating officer in late February, taking over for Doug O’Donnell, who retired after manning the interim post following Danny Werfel’s January departure. Krause decided to resign after Treasury officials struck a deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the accessing of taxpayer information. Krause was largely excluded from those conversations, per the Washington Post. A Treasury spokesperson said in a statement to FedScoop that she will continue to serve as acting commissioner “until at least May 15th.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that could lead to the cancellation of major defense acquisition programs, boost the procurement of commercial technologies and shake up the workforce. The directive states that “after years of misplaced priorities and poor management, our defense acquisition system does not provide the speed and flexibility our Armed Forces need to have decisive advantages in the future. In order to strengthen our military edge, America must deliver state‐of‐the‐art capabilities at speed and scale through a comprehensive overhaul of this system.” The EO on “Modernizing Defense Acquisition and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Pentagon leadership to complete a comprehensive review of all major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs) within 90 days.

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IRS chief resigns following deal to share taxpayer data with ICE;  Trump takes aim at Pentagon acquisition

PLAYLIST
1. Royal House-Can You Party
2. Fast Eddie-Let's Go (Don't U Want Some More)
3. Masters At Work-The Ha Dance (KenLou Mixx)
4. DHS-House Of God
5. Tyree-Video Crash (Crash Instrumental)
6. Basement Jaxx-Fly Life Extra
7. CJ Bolland-Sugar Is Sweeter(Armand's Drum 'n' Bass Mix)
8. Lil' Mo' Yin Yang-Reach (Yin Yang Dub)
9. Armand Van Helden-Entra Mi Casa
10. Oreja-Vazilando (Cevin's Bootilicious Dub)
11. Nuyorican Soul-Runaway (Mongoloids In Space)
12. Joeski Feat. Hector Lavoe-Dia De Ayer (Extended Mix)
13. Armand Van Helden Feat. Roland Clark-Flowerz

NUEVA YORK! (a cafe con leche NYC tribute)

A podcast covering the latest news & trends facing top government leaders on topics such as technology, management & workforce. Hosted by Billy Mitchell on FedScoop and released Monday-Friday.

Each Wednesday, StateScoop’s Priorities Podcast explores the latest in state and local government technology news and analysis. Listen to in-depth conversations with government and industry’s top executives, and learn about trending stories affecting state and local IT leaders ranging from modernization and digital accessibility to the latest advances in generative artificial intelligence.

ProOne79 is a dj-producer from Sardinia, Italy, who loves acid music and oldschool flavoured house and techno.


Having been exposed and influenced to the Chicago and Detroit sounds all his life, he has been crafting high-powered and catchy techno & house for various labels such as:

Nervous / Circus Recordings / Kneaded Pains / 
Flashmob / WRKTRX / This Ain't Bristol /
Moveltraxx / Cod3 QR

and many, many more

contact/promo/remixes: gioeledc79@gmail.com

My new YouTube Channel (Vinyl DJing/My productions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73cZFvqgsmkm-NAqvJzo6A?view_as=subscriber

CHECK MY PLAYLISTS FOR MY PRODUCTIONS ORGANIZED BY STYLE

Here is my free newest album on Bandcamp, Dark Techno and Braindance inspired by The Mover and old Aphex Twin:
https://reflectoid.bandcamp.com/album/krutoid-darkness-follows-me-everywhere-2

This album is more electro and idm style:

https://reflectoid.bandcamp.com/album/electro-defacto-krutoid

I also make music under the name Reflectoid, in an idm, ambient, space music type of feel.  I have free albums to download here:

https://reflectoid.bandcamp.com/


Lots more of my mixes at:

https://hearthis.at/kjphcJRL/

Thanks for the listens.  The more a certain syle of mix gets listened to it inspires me to make new ones in that style.

I have to use my records to justify my obsessive vinyl buying and collecting habit.  If there is a dope track on vinyl, I might own it or chances are I am going to buy it, sooner or later lol.

More mixes and original productions to come. Favorite artists (have made at least 5 really good records minimum) include:  include: 808 State, DHS, Meat Beat Manifesto, D'Arcangelo, Caspar Pound, Aleksi Perälä/Astrobotnia, Carl Finlow, Hashim, Old Richie Hawtin, old Joey Beltram , Newcleus, Not Breathing, Dif Juz, Pete Namlook, The Mover, Pete Shelley electronic stuff, old Front 242, Cocteau Twins, old Jesus and Mary Chain, Network 23/Crystal Distortion, Fast Eddie, Klaus Schulze, Aphex Twin, I.F.,Legowelt, Adrian Sherwood/Keith LeBlanc, Orlando Voorn, JTC, Chep Nunez, Freddie Fresh, Umwelt, Chris Carter, Technical Itch and Decoder, Rephlex Records, Chris Moss Acid, Renegade Soundwave, Suction records, Lory D, Old UR, Skinny Puppy, J. Saul Kane, New Order/Joy Divsion, Circle Jerks and anything that is done well and not too commercial. Depending on my mood though my tastes can change, that is what is so great about music, it can change your emotions almost instantly. I myself mix and scratch records. I am in a lifelong quest to hear the most killer music always!

I dabble a little and am a bit more selective in many genres: such as the weirder experimental side of techno, illbient, dub, 80's new wave and no wave, freetekno especially classic Network 23 records, breakcore, some techstep, some Krautrock, ambient, 80's Industrial, some art rock and post rock, classic 70's and early 80's b-boy breaks and turntabilism.  However my main obsessive focus lies mainly into old school electro and underground futuristic new school electro (Morphology, ERP, Versalife, Kan3da, Plant 43, 214, Analogical Force, CPU, AS1, Umwelt, AC records, Microlith, Armec, Sound Synthesis, Biochip, Illektrolab , Info, Lake Haze and many more), underground acid house (JTC - The Dancing Box and Creep Acid, 808 State Newbuild are some of my favorites), razor blade edits, Moog records, perverted comedy records, Bleeps and Breaks, 90-92 Hardcore techno and early rave tracks, smooth and sleek Detroit Style techno, electronic sound effect and obscure spoken word records and electronic listening music from the beginning to now..

As has been said by many others before, "There are 2 types of music, good music and bad music".

I have about 100 of my own tracks to finish, some are already done, some just need some fine tuning. I am going to use this channel mainly for Dj Mixes with a few of my own tracks on here as well.  Eventually they will get on my BandCamp, or even better, hopefully I will get something released on vinyl.

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New tracks tagged #DHS