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.
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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.
The City of Irvine, California will extend its fifteen-year relationship with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., by providing information technology services, the company announced today.
Last Friday, the New York Department of Health and Insurance released findings from a study that outlined how four proposals to reform the state’s health insurance system might achieve quality, affordable coverage for all New Yorkers.
The first of a series of webinars conducted by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was held this morning to provide an overview to Section 1512 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
In an effort to look at all the pieces on the board, agency leaders from the Paterson administration convened a meeting with community leaders, educational administrators, not-for-profits, and broadband providers to review current funding opportunities for broadband under the Recovery Act.
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine highlighted a system this week that has saved the state more than $280 million since it came online in 2001. The state’s electronic procurement system,eVA, has saved the state by streamlining the purchase process for state agencies and improved transparency, the Governor said.
The Institute for e-Health Policy’s Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics held a meeting this week where Harris Corporation vice president of Healthcare Solutions Jim Traficant spoke to members, telling them that an integrated, interoperable enterprise system was needed to transform the nation’s healthcare infrastructure.