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Computer-Based Patient Records: Better Planning and Oversight By VA, DOD, and IHS Would Enhance Health Data Sharing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In November 1997, the President called for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to create an interface that would allow the two agencies to share patient health information. By allowing health care providers to electronically share comprehensive patient information, computer-based patient record's (GCPR) should help VA, DOD, and the Indian Health Service (IHS) to improve … more
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Records: Clinton Administration's Management of Executive Office of the President E-Mail System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses the facts surrounding the ability of the Clinton White House to preserve certain electronic mail (e-mail) deemed official government records. GAO found that two malfunctions occurred in the White House e-mail system that prevented official records from being properly recorded in the Automated Records Management System (ARMS). The first problem involved an anomaly with incoming Internet e-… more
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: Capitol Preservation Fund's Fiscal Years 2000 and 1999 Financial Statements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO audited the financial statements of the Capitol Preservation Fund for fiscal years 2000 and 1999. GAO found that the financial statements were presented fairly in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, contained no material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting (including safeguarding assets) and complied with the provisions of laws and regulations tested."
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Free Trade Area of the Americas: Negotiations at Key Juncture on Eve of April Meetings

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The negotiations to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would eliminate tariffs and create common trade and investment rules within the 34 democratic nations of the Western Hemisphere, are among the most significant ongoing multilateral trade negotiations for the United States. Two meetings held in April 2001 offer opportunities to inject momentum and set an ambitious pace for the next, m… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IRS Telephone Assistance: Opportunities to Improve Human Capital Management

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determines the staffing level for its toll-free telephone customer service operations. GAO found that IRS lacks a long-term telephone customer service goal that reflects the needs of taxpayers and the costs and benefits of meeting that goal. Rather, IRS annually determines the level of funding it will seek for its customer service workforce, using its judgment of h… more
Date: January 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Warfare: The Army Can Reduce Its Risks in Developing New Radar Countermeasures System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army is acquiring a new, state-of-the-art radar countermeasures system--called the Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures to help helicopters and other aircraft identify, track, and defeat radar-guided missiles in complex electronic environments where many radar systems could be operating simultaneously. The Army has identified software and hardware modification needed for its new radar counte… more
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Student Financial Aid: Use of Middleware for Systems Integration Holds Promise

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Although the Department of Education spent millions of dollars to modernize and integrate its nonintegrated financial aid systems during the past 10 years, these efforts have met with limited success. Recently, Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance (SFA) began using a software approach known as middleware to provide users with a more complete and integrated view of information in its many database… more
Date: November 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Two Navy Units Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed purchase card activity at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center and the Navy Public Works Center in San Diego and found significant breakdowns in internal controls over purchase card transactions, including fraudulent, improper, and abusive purchases and theft and misuse of government property. Neither SPAWAR nor the Navy Public Works Center had effective policies for… more
Date: November 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security: Program's Role in Helping Ensure Income Adequacy

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Before Social Security, being old often meant being poor. Today, dependency on public assistance has dropped to a fraction of its Depression-era levels, and poverty rates among the elderly are now lower than for the population as a whole. At the same time, Social Security has become the single largest source of retirement income for more than 90 percent of persons aged 65 and older. Automatic adjustments were … more
Date: November 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicaid: HCFA Reversed Its Position and Approved Additional State Financing Schemes

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Some states have taken advantage of the flexibility that Congress built into the Medicaid program by devising schemes that inappropriately boost the federal share of program expenditures. These schemes were adding billions of dollars a year to federal Medicaid costs without the states paying their statutorily specified share of program costs. Moreover, some of the federal funds were being spent for non-Medicai… more
Date: October 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Security: Progress and Challenges to an Effective Defense-wide Information Assurance Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The components, military services, and agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD) share many risks in their use of globally networked computer systems to perform operational missions. Many reports of vulnerabilities, organized intrusions, and theft related to department systems and networks have underscored weaknesses in DOD systems. In January 1998, DOD responded to these risks by announcing its plans for a … more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Assistance: Research Provides Limited Information on the Effectiveness of Specific WIC Nutrition Services

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Despite methodological limitations, demonstration studies provide program managers and policymakers with some useful information on the types of Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition service interventions that can have positive results for participants. However, only one recent demonstration study provides any information on the costs associated with implementing various… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Water Infrastructure: Information on Federal and State Financial Assistance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. drinking water and wastewater systems encompass thousands of treatment and collection facilities and more than a million miles of pipes and conduits. The estimated cost to repair, replace, or upgrade aging facilities; accommodate the nation's growing population; and meet new water quality standards ranges from $300 billion to $1 trillion over the next 20 years. Although user rates are the major source of … more
Date: November 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Information Technology: Software and Systems Process Improvement Programs Vary in Use of Best Practices

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Several Department of Defense (DOD) components have software and systems process improvement (SPI) programs that are aligned closely to the best practices embodied in the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) IDEAL model and thus provide excellent examples of SPI. Elsewhere in DOD, however, such programs are lacking. Where they do exist, these programs are being credited with producing higher quality software a… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combating Terrorism: Accountability Over Medical Supplies Needs Further Improvement

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report updates the status of corrective measures taken by federal agencies to address internal control weaknesses that could affect the United States' ability to effectively respond to chemical or biological terrorist attacks. GAO, which cited these weaknesses in 1999, found that the agencies have significantly improved accountability over the medical supplies needed to treat victims of chemical or biolog… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Loan Monitoring System: SBA Needs to Evaluate Use of Software

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997 requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to complete mandated planning activities before developing a loan monitoring system (LMS). In February 2000, GAO testified that SBA had made substantial progress in completing the mandated planning actions and made recommendations on additional steps needed for each action, and for project management and control of … more
Date: November 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pipeline Safety Fund: Minimum Balance Was Not Reasonably Estimated

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The use of incorrect or unreliable data and inappropriate assumptions in the Research and Special Program Administration's (RSPA) calculation of the minimum Pipeline Safety Fund (PSF) balance caused RSPA to overstate the necessary minimum balance. Crucial to a reasonable calculation of the PSF minimum balance is an analysis of expected receipts as compared to expected obligations. Until RSPA does this type of … more
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small Business: Workforce Development Consortia Provide Needed Services

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Small businesses often have serious difficulty finding skilled employees, upgrading the skills of their existing employees, and identifying strategies to meet future workforce needs. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 seeks to address these workforce development issues and give federal training programs a greater employer focus. Although these problems are common throughout the country, small businesses in s… more
Date: October 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tennessee Valley Authority: Bond Ratings Based on Ties to the Federal Government and Other Nonfinancial Factors

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Although the criteria used to rate the bonds of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and other electric utilities are the same, they are weighted differently and, as a result, the basis for TVA's bond rating is more nonfinancial in nature than that for other electric utilities. According to bond analysts, TVA's high bond rating is largely based on the perception that its debt is federally backed because of its… more
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Combat: Services Should Consider Greater Use of New Test Equipment for Their Aircraft

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The armed services have had problems for years with their ability to adequately test their electronic combat systems. The success of the new Joint Service Electronic Combat Systems Tester Program in providing improved test capability is a positive development. Because the tester has identified many more faults in the F-15C and F/A-18C electronic combat systems than has the current test equipment, existing read… more
Date: August 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Army Inventory: Parts Shortages Are Impacting Operations and Maintenance Effectiveness

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The military's ability to carry out its mission depends on its having adequate supplies of spare parts on hand for maintenance and repairs. Shortages are a key indicator that the billions of dollars being spent on these parts are not being used effectively, efficiently, and economically. Despite additional funding from Congress, the Army still has concerns about spare parts shortages. Spare parts shortages for… more
Date: July 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FTS2001: Transition Challenges Jeopardize Program Goals

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Telecommunications services are increasingly critical to transforming the way the federal government does business; communicates internally and externally; and interacts with citizens, industry, and state, local, and foreign governments. Electronic government services based on reliable, secure, and cost-effective telecommunications can enable agencies to streamline the way they do business, reduce paperwork an… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: IRS Can Help Taxpayers Reduce the Need for Tax Abatements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "About one million taxpayers per year, as well as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), incur costs to abate tax assessments created due to tax exemption errors. Avoiding the errors, or correcting them earlier, could reduce the burden on taxpayers of complying with tax laws. IRS has taken one step intended to help taxpayers avoid these errors--revising instructions for claiming exemptions. In another step, aimed… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: Independent and Special Counsel Expenditures for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2000

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report presents the results of GAO's audits of expenditures reported by six offices of independent counsel and one office of special counsel for the six months ending September 30, 2000. GAO found the statements of expenditures for the offices of independent counsel and office of special counsel were presented fairly in all material respects. There were no material weaknesses in internal controls over fin… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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