New Mexico’s Human Services Department is renewing its partnership with Xerox through a 58-month, $105 million contract to manage and enhance the state’s delivery of quality health care to Medicaid recipients. Xerox has administered Medicaid services for New Mexico since 1994. Last year, Xerox processed 23 million claims and handled $3.5 billion in Medicaid payments.
The state of Maine has updated its website to make it more accessible for users on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets like the iPad. The site also has a new look, faster speed and an improved search engine designed to help visitors find information more easily.
Mississippi Governor Bryant signed several new laws this morning designed to change the way workers are allowed to seek compensation if they are hurt on the job and give more tax credits to businesses. The three bills will go into effect on July 1 of this year.
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, announced the selection of six regional network hubs that will promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and economic development across Iowa today. This is the first major initiative of the new Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, a public-private partnership that aims to foster greater student achievement in STEM subjects and [...]
Oregon Governor Kitzhaber and the Obama Administration have agreed to coordinate care for Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon, through a new model of care that aims to cut costs in Oregon’s Medicaid program by at least two percentage points within two years while improving health outcomes. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has [...]
Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence and the Ramapo Town Board today launched “The Ramapo Jobs Connector,” which is a new online jobs platform powered by TweetMyJobs. “The Ramapo Jobs Connector” will assist local job seekers in the Town of Ramapo and throughout Rockland County by offering an user-friendly online tool to facilitate their search for [...]
Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has signed an executive order to establish an Open Data policy, which will provide increased access and will enhance the transparency of City data sets. The Executive Order creates a Chief Data Officer (CDO) position, which will oversee and enforce the Open Data Policy and will report to the Chief [...]
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will turn on the state’s largest privately-owned solar energy park in Westford, Massachusetts. The 4.5 megawatt park is situated on a 22-acre site and will soon be generating power. Swampscott, Mass. and Constellation Energy have also completed an aggregate 450-kilowatt solar generation project at Swampscott Middle School and Swampscott High School.
Tyler Technologies, a Dallas, Texas-based technology firm has reached a nearly $2 million agreement with Lucas County, Ohio for Tyler’s iasWorld property assessment and taxation software solution. The county said that it chose the firm for its broad range of data management functions.
The state of Iowa, through its OpenIowa open data project, is launching StartupIowa, a project for civic developers to work with the state’s open data sets and leverage them for new applications and data visualizations. OpenIowa will also host a weekend long code-a-thon starting on April 27 to get the project moving.
