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Xerox to upgrade New Mexico’s Medicaid system

May 22, 2012No Comments
Xerox to upgrade New Mexico’s Medicaid system

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.

Lucas County, Ohio chooses Tyler Technologies for property assessment upgrade

April 24, 2012No Comments
Lucas County, Ohio chooses Tyler Technologies for property assessment upgrade

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.

Intergraph Government Solutions integrates critical infrastructure monitoring with EdgeFrontier

April 10, 2012No Comments
Intergraph Government Solutions integrates critical infrastructure monitoring with EdgeFrontier

In order to respond to growing threats, sprawling suburbs and complex interoperability challenges between legacy systems and new ones states and municipalities are deploying large infrastructure networks. These networks link up everything from traffic lights to homeland security systems and rely on censors, cameras and transmitters to report data back to officials about the overall [...]

LightSquared comes out swinging

March 20, 2012No Comments
LightSquared comes out swinging

Last month, the Federal Communications Commission blocked wireless technology services from the Virginia company, LightSquared because of the interference it caused with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals. The move resulted in very public claims from the company and its hedge fund backer Philip Falcone, CEO of Harbinger Capitsl that the company would affirm its stance [...]

Haslam effort to hide business information falters in TN Senate

February 14, 2012No Comments
Haslam effort to hide business information falters in TN Senate

A bill that would roll back transparency in Tennessee has stalled out in the legislature. Governor Bill Haslam is pushing a bill that would keep the names of companies that receive state tax incentives secret. The bill is considered to be a counterpart to the state’s “Fast Track” program for economic development and faced stiff [...]

Some states leveraging SOA to streamline benefits systems

November 30, 2011175 Comments
Some states leveraging SOA to streamline benefits systems

Lower revenues and budget cuts continue to dominate the agendas of state governments. Yet, demand for human services such as unemployment insurance and welfare benefits have seen a dramatic increase as people find themselves struggling and out of work. In this environment, many states are looking for ways to streamline their benefits systems to cut [...]

SLG Business Brief: Litigation, law enforcement and lighter electricity bills

March 25, 2011307 Comments
SLG Business Brief: Litigation, law enforcement and lighter electricity bills

Litigious is the word this week. And human services technology is both the plaintiff and the defendant, the winner and the loser. Dell thinks its new mobile forensics solution is pretty sweet; IBM has struck yet another deal with parts of the New York City government apparatus; and there are some positive (fingers-crossed) health IT [...]

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 [...]

New Calif. policy puts department heads on hook for IT purchases

February 8, 2011177 Comments
New Calif. policy puts department heads on hook for IT purchases

The state of California is trying to build more accountability into their information technology purchases. In a policy letter, circulated by the newly renamed California Technology Agency, department-level directors will have to personally certify IT products and services previously approved at lower levels.

The federal deficit and the states: Saving money one process at a time

January 19, 2011211 Comments
The federal deficit and the states: Saving money one process at a time

In this, the first of two pieces on the federal debt and its relationship to state and local governments, Accenture’s David Wilson outlines how the debt crisis should lead to a fundamental reexamination of the way money transfers from federal to state coffers. He also argues for a government processes “Marshall Plan” that looks into [...]

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