Today the Office of Management and Budget released its long awaited digital strategy – “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People,” which outlines key federal guidance on technology initiatives. The strategy was bolstered by an additional Presidential memorandum urging offices and agencies to make more information available on mobile [...]
A new report released on Sunday from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute (BACEI) shows that federal health care reform will add tens of thousands of jobs to the California economy, contradicting a number of reports that the law will hurt economic growth. The report comes as the state announced the latest budget gap, continuing [...]
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has signed a new health care bill into law that will create a health insurance exchange and continue the state’s push toward a single payer health system. Several hundred million dollars in federal subsidies will be available to make the policies more affordable. The bill follows another which set up a [...]
A few weeks ago, Utah had a significant breach in the security of health and Medicaid patient records. According to press accounts of the incident, despite state protocols requiring the data to be wiped in the event of a breach, records sat exposed for months effecting some 280,000 people. Now, the technology director for the [...]
West Virginia’s struggling state broadband project is moving forward at least in part, Frontier Communications which is handling most of the expansion plan told state officials yesterday that their work is on track to meet deployment deadlines. The company is responsible for expanding broadband through the state’s public school network.
During opening remarks at the SALT Conference this morning, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced his first international trade mission to China set to take place later this year. He also highlighted his plan to make Nevada the most business friendly state in the US. In addition, the state just struck a deal with internet retailer [...]
Ohio is on its way to becoming a hub for ultra fast broadband. Earlier this year, the state announced plans to build a 100gbps network for state anchor institutions and a medical technology corridor leveraging the state’s university networks. That network is set to expand as two cities announced they will hook into the second [...]
South Carolina and Rhode Island are looking at ways to restructure their state governments. Both states are considering elimination of state administrative offices, and would put that authority within the Governor’s purview. Rhode Island’s Chief Auditor has already resigned in the wake of the action in that state.
Today the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) joined the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and the NYS Department of Health (DOH) to launch the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA), a program that aims to make New York a hub for the emerging digital health technology industry. In upcoming months the program will choose [...]
Gov 2.0 is term that references the use of technology to make government an open platform for innovation. The term and the concept gained traction with public officials around the start of the Obama Administration which brought on a number of forward thinking, technology savvy staffers for key IT roles. Although recently, the idea has [...]
