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 [...]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand health coverage in the United States by more than 35 million people. This expansion requires states to take a fresh look at eligibility and customer service operations, and develop new business processes for interacting with stakeholders. Existing IT systems are outdated, and under-resourced state agencies are challenged by [...]
California’s most recent government technology effort is running into some hurdles. The Financial Information System for California (FISCal), was supposed to streamline IT costs and staffing but seems to be hitting snags for exactly those reasons.
IT, Health Care and Mobility are three key focus areas for state and local government going into 2012 and beyond. All three areas have the potential to save governments millions and improve service delivery but they can also cause significant short term headaches in this era of austerity. CivSource spoke with Joe Doherty, EVP & [...]
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 [...]
Maryland has chosen Tyler Technologies to integrate its court management system using the Odyssey(R) solution. The Odyssey court management system will integrate managing and reporting court information in order to help the state meet its Maryland Electronic Court (MDEC) goals. The state court system is working to upgrade and streamline many of its legacy systems.
Hawaii is hoping to expand its broadband access statewide with the support of a new law that exempts broadband providers from state and county permitting requirements for installation, construction and development of broadband infrastructure. The bill will go into effect on July 1 and last for five years before sunsetting.
According to new rules published last week by the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service, Social Security recipients can expect to receive their checks through electronic funds transfer (EFT) beginning May 1, 2011. Officials believe the move to direct deposit could save upwards of $1 billion over the next 10 years.
After months of speculation, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue late last week released a four-part plan to restructure, consolidate, eliminate and privatize parts of her administration. Among the proposed changes, Gov. Perdue will be looking towards private vendors to consolidate the state’s IT services and manage its purchasing functions.
Wyoming will be streamlining its communications technology services through Google within the next year according to an announcement from the state CIO. Wyoming will be utilizing Google apps for all communications and communication security. The switch is notable as one of the fastest procurement processes the state has ever experienced. Currently, Wyoming has two separate [...]
