Obama to Redirect Government IT/Security Priorities
President-elect Barack Obama’s initial round of cabinet nominees would bring significant changes to state and local government IT, Chris Dixon, manager, state and local industry analysis at INPUT told Security Magazine. Dixon has been posting his comments on Obama’s rumored and official nominees on INPUT’s “B2G Exchange” blog. Of particular interest have been the nominees for secretary of health and human services, Tom Daschle (SD), and homeland security, Gov. Janet Napolitano (AZ).
“For example, former Senate majority leader Daschle’s views on health care reform include a role for the government in health IT that are similar to those of the outgoing Bush administration,” says Dixon “However, health IT was the #2 policy item of the Obama campaign’s health care platform, so INPUT expects it to see much more attention and funding under the new administration.”