The state of Tennessee has awarded a four-year, $170 million contract to EDS to update and manage the state’s Medicaid Management Information System, the company announced today.
As state and local government budgets across the country further tighten their already tight belts, there exists a growing need to look at how government operates on a line-item level. Now, more than ever, it is important that public sector institutions look at how they buy the everyday items that make up the nuts and [...]
Colorado’s leadership shuffle continued last week when Governor Bill Ritter announced the appointment of state Representative Don Marostica as the new director of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade.
With the administration ratcheting up their efforts to promote health reform, industry leaders and government technocrats are scrambling to keep pace with the finer points required as part of the Recovery Act.
As the dust settled in Philadelphia following the National Conference of State Legislatures Friday, new faces and a new-found resolve to pickup the pieces of a broken economy marked the end of a week-long summit rife with a mixture of concern, uncertainty and optimism.
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue signed an executive order last week to consolidate the state's Health IT recovery efforts. According to Executive Order 19, the Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission (HWTF) is the state-designated entity responsible for coordinating North Carolina's Health IT strategy.
To help parse out the difficult and sometimes confusing issues surrounding "meaningful use" Perot Systems' executive vice president and chief medical officer, Dr. HarryGreenspun, will host a webinar this Thursday, July 23rd, at 2pm ET.
The NCSL has released its latest report, "State Budget Update: July 2009," detailing the condition of states' fiscal health in the year ahead. One of the biggest drivers behind the bipartisan organization's pessimistic outlook on the rest of FY 2010 and FY 2011, is the rapidly accelerating domino-effect of falling revenue streams for state and local government.
In June of this year, New York State's Office for Technology jumped into the arena of social media and Web 2.0 technologies with the launch of Empire 2.0. And last week, Deputy CIO of Enterprise Strategy & Governance Services for OFT, Rico Singleton, released a memo regarding Empire 2.0's Wiki Policy page. "
The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services has agreed to issue Reston-based MAXIMUS Inc. a follow-on contract to provide education and enrollment services, the company said earlier today.
