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  • USA:Emergency Information & Weather Updates Now Available at Oklahoma's Web Site

    Oklahoma is giving its citizens fast access to valuable weather reports and disaster preparedness information during emergencies, thanks to a new Web site developed by the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

    The Web site, which is available at www.oem.OK.gov or through the state's official Web site at www.OK.gov, gives agency employees the flexibility to distribute timely information in the event of a disaster. Agency staff can use a Web-based administrative tool to create new Web pages or news releases from any computer with Internet access. The administrative tool was designed to speed the release of valuable information to the public outside of a traditional office location.

  • USA:Fed.Enterprise Archit.Initiatives Integrated Into Agency Quart. Scorecards

    FEA to be Included on the Executive Branch Management Scorecard Beginning June 30, 2005

    Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government information systems will be integrated into the quarterly Executive Branch Management Scorecards for each department-level federal agency as of June 30, 2005, according to a report released today by INPUT, the quantifiable leader in government market intelligence. The scorecards measure the government's progress toward executing the management initiatives set forth by the President's Management Agenda. The mission of the FEA is to create a more citizen-centric, customer-focused government that maximizes the return on technology investments and to better achieve mission outcomes.

  • USA:Forest Service again awards recreation contract to Reserve America

    The Forest Service has once again awarded a $97 million contract to ReserveAmerica of Ballston Spa, N.Y., to provide a single federal recreation information and reservation service.

    The award is the result of a recompete for the National Recreation Reservation Service after a bidder protested the original award by the Agriculture Department agency to ReserveAmerica.

  • USA:George Bush ernennt neue Regierungs-CIO

    US-Präsident George Bush hat Karen Evans, derzeit Chief Information Officer beim Energieministerium, zur neuen Herrin über Informationstechnik und E-Government der US-Regierung ernannt. Evans, seit 20 Jahren in der Washingtoner Bürokratie tätig, folgt damit auf Mark Forman. Der hatte im vergangenen Monat seinen Abschied angekündigt, weil er sich zu unterbezahlt sah. Offizieller Arbeitstitel von Evans wird der Bandwurm "Administrator of the Office of Information Technology and Electronic Government" im Office of Management and Budget, das direkt im Weißen Haus sitzt.
  • USA:House bill would cut E-Gov Fund request by $2M

    A House appropriations bill would give the E-Government Fund $2 million less than the $5 million President Bush requested in his fiscal 2007 budget proposal.

    The House bill still bars the Office of Management and Budget from using $40 million in surplus money in the General Supply Fund to finance its list of e-government initiatives.

  • USA:Indiana Governor Encourages Physical Fitness With New `INShape' Web Site

    Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is asking Hoosiers to get involved in a new state initiative that will help improve the health status of Indiana and improve individual fitness. He introduced INShape Indiana today, a Web-based program that connects citizens with local services and events that help them make healthy choices to improve their quality of life. INShape Indiana is available online at www.inshape.IN.gov through accessIndiana, the state's official Web site.
  • USA:Integrated Systems Aid Better Efficiency and Sharing of Critical Information

    The disparate legacy systems used in various federal agencies have been designed independently of each other, and this has made it extremely difficult to integrate them. The government is looking for a simple network system that enables efficient flow of information, instead of silos of data.

    New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.telecom.frost.com/), U.S. E-Government Markets, reveals that the U.S. Government invested almost $3,645.8 million in 2004 on e-governance and expects to spend $5,276.9 million in 2009.

  • USA:Kansas Signs New eGovernment Contract with NIC to Extend Portal Management Services Through 2016

    The state of Kansas has signed a new contract with Kansas Information Consortium, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of eGovernment firm NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV), to manage its official government portal (www.Kansas.gov) for up to seven years. With this new contract, the state of Kansas and NIC will extend the nation’s longest-running public-private state portal management partnership through December 2016. Kansas Information Consortium has managed Kansas.gov’s operations for more than 16 years.

    As the first state government portal in the nation, Kansas signed its original contract with Kansas Information Consortium in December 1991. The new contract becomes effective on January 1, 2010, and was approved by the Information Network of Kansas Board of Directors on October 2, 2008.

  • USA:Labor Department First to Score 'All Green' on President's Management Agenda

    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the first federal agency to achieve the highest score of "green" on all five major government-wide components of the President's Management Agenda (PMA). The accomplishment was noted today in a report issued by the Office of Management and Budget on PMA scorecard results for the quarter ending June 30.

    "This is a tremendous achievement by DOL employees who are committed to excellence on behalf of American workers and taxpayers," said Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. "The President's Management Agenda sets high standards and I have high expectations that we will continue to meet them."

  • USA:Mass:Somerville:Tell the city what you want out of the budget online, as the budget is being set

    Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Chief Financial Officer Edward Bean announced today that the City of Somerville has created a new page on its website to help residents track and comment on the city’s efforts to cope with state aid cuts and other fiscal pressures in the FY2009 and FY2010 budgets.

    The new page, which will be regularly updated and expanded throughout the budget season, features an online survey to record resident opinions about budget priorities as well as suggestions for cost reductions and revenue enhancement.

  • USA:Massachusetts:Medical records to be shared electronically as part of project in greater Brockton

    Starting next month, hundreds of thousands of local residents will be asked to allow their medical information to be shared electronically between doctors.

    It’s the next phase in a $50 million project, being piloted in greater Brockton and two other communities, to use computers for storing patient records and exchanging medical data.

  • USA:Michigan:Six law enforcement agencies in Jackson County using e-services to keep people informed

    When 911 service went down in Jackson County recently, the sheriff's office sent messages on Twitter, or "tweets," with alternate numbers to its followers.

    When police in Parma needed help finding a truck that fled a crash scene, they sent out notice to cell phones and e-mail accounts.

    Some police agencies in Jackson County have turned to the Internet, cell phones and e-mail to get word out about crime, weather warnings and community events.

  • USA:Minnesota:State and County Health and Human Services Agencies Use Technology to Break Down Silos

    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Though the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu imparted this wisdom around the sixth century B.C., it's relevant today as governments not only grapple with the unbending truth of limited resources, but also seek to include others in their solutions, dipping into almost limitless possibilities by connecting with and relying on clients, communities and vendors.

    Perhaps nowhere is it more imperative to be resourceful than county health and human services agencies, which strive to meet citizens' most basic needs. Compare notes with such agencies and you'll be met with dizzying mandates: improve client outcomes; meet federal directives; chip away at fraud; track regulatory changes; confront duplication and inefficiency; plug gaps; and deal with disparate systems and technologies while encouraging workers to adopt new business processes meant to help alleviate those challenges, but instead add to them.

  • USA:Montana:Fed-funded plan brings cable Internet directly to 1,700 homes, businesses on Crow Nation

    It won’t be completed until 2013, but the $19.5 million federal stimulus-funded Internet project for the Crow Indian Reservation will bring high-speed, cable Internet access to 1,700 homes and businesses on the rural reservation.

    The project also includes a fiber-optic highway to three of the reservation’s most remote towns, eventually giving them access to high-speed Internet that can connect with the rest of the world, a Project Telephone Co. official said.

    “One thing we’re really excited about, and I know that the Crow Tribe is, too, is it will bring capability to the reservation that they’ve never had before,” said Rich Hood, plant operations manager for Project Telephone. “The intention is that it will spur economic activity on the reservation and give everybody there access to Internet capability to allow them to do things urban people have been able to do for a long time.”

  • USA:Montana's New Online Voter Lookup Service Delivers Results in Recent Primary

    Electronic System Confirms Voting Eligibility for Citizens without Legal Identification

    Technology is helping Montanans exercise their right to vote. As part of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) that took effect in October 2002, citizens are required to present legal identification at polling stations. A new electronic service in Montana allows voting officials to verify the identify of voters through the state's driver record database, and more than 600 citizens who arrived without identification during the state's June 8 primary were able to vote as a result.

  • USA:Nation’s First Use of Connected Care to Enhance Rural Health Goes Live in 4 Colorado Communities

    • Connected Care program to improve rural access to health care services, making it easier and more convenient for patients to see the doctors they need
    • Residents in and around Buena Vista, Lamar, Leadville and Del Norte among the first in the nation to access innovative telehealth services
    • Telehealth services covered under many insurance plans
    • Program’s launch part of national rollout of an advanced telehealth network by UnitedHealthcare

    UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, and Centura Health, Colorado’s largest health care provider, announced the official launch of Connected Care, giving patients in four rural Colorado communities expanded access to physicians and specialists using advanced telehealth technology.

  • USA:National Comprehensive Cancer Network Launches Free Guidelines Mobile App for iPhone and Android

    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) improves access to the latest information on cancer treatment recommendations with the launch of the NCCN Guidelines App for iPhone and Android. These new apps are free and enable registered users on NCCN.org to view the NCCN Guidelines from their smartphone. The NCCN Guidelines apps are among the first free mobile applications available that are designed to assist in the selection of treatment for patients with cancer.

    “Physicians and other health care professionals are adopting mobile eHealth technology at an accelerating rate,” said William T. McGivney, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, NCCN. “We are pleased to be able to offer providers improved access to the critical information found in the NCCN Guidelines at or near the point of patient care or anywhere through these new mobile applications.”

  • USA:Nebraska Liquor Control Commission Offers Ability to Complete & Submit Monthly Statements Online

    New Service Improves Efficiencies for both Spirit and Wine Distributors and Liquor Commission

    Starting today, the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission is adding the ability to file required monthly wine and spirit statements to its suite of online offerings for beer, wine and spirit distributors. Previously, the only method available for distributors to file these required statements was via postal mail to the office of the Liquor Commission.

    This new service, available at www.nebraska.gov, joins the license renewals, tax payments submissions, and required monthly beer statement services already offered online by the Liquor Commission.

  • USA:New Licensure Service Web Site Available for Oklahoma Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologist

    Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologist Can Now Apply for and Renew a License Online

    The Oklahoma Board of Examiners for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology (OBESPA) have recently launched a new Web site and online licensure service which will serve more than 1,500 speech-language pathologists and audiologists in the state of Oklahoma. The new Web site is located at OBESPA.OK.gov.

  • USA:North Carolina:Health care providers say keeping electronic records will be good for your health

    Forget all those paper forms you have to fill out every time you go to a new doctor.

    One day, we’ll each have one medical file — electronic health records on a National Health Information Network accessible anywhere in the country by any medical provider with authorization to review those files. But just as sure as some readers of The Gazette are viewing this article on newsprint, the conversion to digital medical records has yet to be embraced by all physicians and patients.

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