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SLG Business Brief: Smart cities, walkie-talkies, and EHRs

March 11, 2011187 Comments
SLG Business Brief: Smart cities, walkie-talkies, and EHRs

This week in SLG business, IBM announced a host of recipients of its Smarter Cities Challenge, first responders in Wisconsin will soon have new walkie-talkies, CSC has made headway on North Carolina’s EHR incentive system, Massachusetts re-ups with its Health Connector IT provider and the streak of ERP wins continues for Tyler Technologies. Also some [...]

SLG Business Brief: Spring awakening for city-level projects

March 3, 2011221 Comments
SLG Business Brief: Spring awakening for city-level projects

Spring is a time for hatching. And during the first week of March, several announcements were singing praise for solutions that have just come out of the oven. Two such projects have been stood up, one in Pittsburgh and one in Seattle. Meanwhile, a pair of deals were signed this week for ERP systems in [...]

Baltimore county officials outline priority tech projects

February 28, 2011139 Comments
Baltimore county officials outline priority tech projects

In an announcement last week, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz highlighted twenty-three technology initiatives that his administration will implement within the next six to eighteen months. The nearly two dozen projects include citizen-facing solutions, such as a constituent service portal, and internal tools that will help modernize the county’s business processes.

SLG Business Brief: Health IT and happiness

February 24, 2011174 Comments
SLG Business Brief: Health IT and happiness

This week, HIMSS11 took place in Orlando, Florida. The state and local government market was atwitter with health IT, electronic health records, health information exchanges and one thing many vendors interested in the health insurance market will be watching is an announcement today by HHS’s consumer information and insurance head, Steve Larsen.

N.H. House votes to bail on regional cap-and-trade program

February 24, 2011175 Comments
N.H. House votes to bail on regional cap-and-trade program

Despite please from the Governor’s office, New Hampshire’s House of Representatives voted to end the state’s involvement in a regional cap-and-trade program 246 – 104. Proponents of the bill said original involvement in the carbon trading program was based on unproven scientific assumptions about global warming. Meanwhile those voting against repeal cited the economic benefits [...]

New York to integrate QR codes with construction permits

February 23, 2011344 Comments
New York to integrate QR codes with construction permits

As part of an ongoing effort to make city data more open and accessible, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that Quick Response Codes, also known as QR codes, would be used on construction permits throughout the city. Mr. Bloomberg hopes that city residents will use the QR codes, in part, to help [...]

Florida gov gets earful over proposed cut to drug monitoring system

February 22, 2011306 Comments
Florida gov gets earful over proposed cut to drug monitoring system

Over the last few days, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been a subject for conversation among some of his fellow governors. Following news of Florida’s rejection of $2 billion in federal grants for high-speed rail, governors from Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Maryland sent letters asking US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for those funds. [...]

States receive $241M to develop model health insurance exchanges

February 17, 2011171 Comments
States receive $241M to develop model health insurance exchanges

The US Department of Health & Human Services have moved forward with its “Early Innovator” grant program to develop model state health insurance exchanges. Six states and a group of New England states will receive $241 million to help them design and implement the IT infrastructure for insurance exchanges, HHS officials said Wednesday. Kansas, Maryland, [...]

Automatic app looks to improve Boston streets

February 15, 2011332 Comments
Automatic app looks to improve Boston streets

Last week, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced a prototype mobile application that can detect potholes automatically, without having to manually report it to the city or pullover to take a picture of the roadside crater. Dubbed, Street Bump, the app is part of a crowdsourcing effort that will launch later this spring to an international [...]

Mobile devices, consumerization of government info driving SLG security

February 10, 2011204 Comments
Mobile devices, consumerization of government info driving SLG security

Getting face time with the boss when it comes to information security is a hard thing to do in government. Much like the electricity that keeps lights on in our homes, we only begin to think of cyber security when there is a breach or a high-volume displacement of data. CivSource recently sat down with [...]

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