According to an announcement released earlier today, CGI Group will partner with ACS and IBM to manage California’s Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The contract is worth $1.6 billion over ten years, and comes after a two-year bid process and a contentious battle between the state and EDS, now a division of Hewlett-Packard.
SAFC announced today that they will be expanding their biopharmaceuticals operations in Kansas by creating a ‘Center of Excellence’ in Lenexa, KS. The center, a $6.25 million project, is part of a global plan to manage manufacturing and supply chain optimization for the company. The project is also supported by a $250,000 grant from the [...]
The promise of the new health care legislation is momentous, says Deloitte’s Robert N. Campbell. In an opinion piece for CivSource’s The Gallery, Mr. Campbell discusses the importance of thinking strategically in managing the implementation of federal health care reform at the state level.
Last Thursday, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons set up a “constitution defense fund,” offering a new twist in the ways states are going after the health care bill. According to the release, the Governor received “numerous inquiries from citizens wishing to assist in the Governor’s fight against the Reid/Pelosi/Obama Nationalized Health Care Plan.”
The National Association of Counties (NACo) held its annual Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C. this week, focusing on the economy and health care reform. During a keynote speech Tuesday morning, US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised local officials for their help in deploying millions of H1N1 vaccinations and promised to keep a [...]
According to a release Wednesday, Accenture and SAS announced a plan to jointly develop and implement a series of industry-specific predictive analytic applications, beginning with the financial services, healthcare and public service sector. Industry observers and the companies’ officials said the decision was made due to extraordinary demand and a rapid adoption of analytic techniques [...]
Over the last several weeks, one segment of government technology projects has caught the attention of mainstream media outlets from California to Columbus, Ohio. Computer systems designed to dole out benefits and entitlements have long-known to be outdated. And the economy, which has led to an increased reliance on mainframe systems that distribute food stamps, [...]
Maine Governor John Baldacci unveiled a Web-based tool yesterday designed to help residents of his state assess their level of health risk, based off a ten to fifteen question survey, and find affordable health care based on their location. The website is part of a larger wellness initiative, enacted last year by the Maine Legislature, [...]
In an effort to stop some of the financial bleeding in the state Medicaid system, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) has partnered with Salient Management to help eliminate fraud, waste and abuse, the company announced last week.
A predictable, inevitable, and unfortunate truth about health and human services in the U.S. has been revealed by the Great Recession, according to Dave McCurley, Accenture’s global managing director for human services. In a keynote given at the American Public Human Services Association ISM Conference last year, Mr. McCurley said that by complicating the assistance [...]
