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Veriscrip built on government regulation: One fact that marks healthcare IT is how you can build a profitable business just based on the need to enforce government regulations.VirtualHealth Technologies of Lexington, Kentucky, for instance, is building itself on HIPAA, through a unit called Veriscrip.HIPAA requires secure tracking of medical information, and controls who can access...; Tags: state government, Physician Information, Medical Records, Medical Office IT, Medical IT, General; Blog posts 2007-08-03
MI is the most wired state government in US: Michigan took first place in a survey of the most digitally advanced state governments conducted by the Center for Digital Government. The Digital State Survey examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies. And the winners are: 1st...; Tags: petition, state government; Blog posts 2006-10-09
Divergent accessibility standards: Are federal and state governments on different tracks when it comes to implementing web accessibility standards? On his Vox Populus blog, Mark Headd notes that federal law sets accessibility standards for federal agencies but it's not clear whether the rules also apply to state governments. New York, among other states,...; Tags: standards, accessibility standard; Blog posts 2005-08-02
Prices for Brand-Name Drugs Under Selected Federal Programs: Federal and state governments are large purchasers of pharmaceuticals, accounting for over 20 percent of total U.S. expenditures for outpatient prescription drugs in 2003. Across government programs, drug prices can vary considerably. The prices that federal and state governments pay for drugs are determined by a combination of statutory rebates...; Tags: State Government, Congressional Budget Office, Healthcare, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2005-06-01
Enterprise Business Architecture: The Enterprise Business Architecture EBA provides that common reference model by defining the business strategy, governance, organization, and business functions of Virginia state government, and establishes a baseline that defines, which organizations perform those functions. This paper represents the initial enterprise business architecture for state government in Virginia and will...; Tags: State Government, Virginia, Enterprise Business Architecture, Networking; White papers 2005-04-13

Staying the Course: The Use of Performance Measurement in state governments: This report presents results from a body of research conducted over the last decade regarding the usefulness of performance measurement for budgeting and management in state governments. This report not only provides an update concerning performance-related requirements in the states. It also assesses results from a survey sent in 2000...; Tags: State Government, Performance, Budgeting, Government, Performance Measurement, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, Performance Management, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2004-11-01
EDMS White Paper: The Document Management Domain Team has been working for the past two years to develop a cohesive strategy for future deployment of Electronic Document Management System EDMS technologies within state government. An EDMS is a collection of technologies that are used to create, distribute, review, maintain and dispose of information...; Tags: State Government, North Dakota, Document Management Domain Team, Electronic Document Management System, Enterprise Electronic Document Management System, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Asset Management, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2004-08-01
Built to Last: The State of Georgia Enterprise Portal Vision: The State of Georgia is making plans to change the way citizens and stakeholders interact with state government. The Georgia Technology Authority GTA, a new agency established to oversee the state's technology planning, purchases and implementation, is developing a strategy for moving Georgia to an intention-based, electronically enhanced state government...; Tags: State Government, U.S. General Services Administration, Georgia, Groupware, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing; White papers

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Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?: For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...; Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Universal coverage changes the debate: Once you start following countries with universal health care, it's clear that problems remain but the terms of debate shifts. Take Canada, for instance. (Please?) Questions of how much money is spent on drugs cease being academic. Government can freely decide what people can...; Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Open Source in 2013: <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...; Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Sugar-free Windows, as predicted: As Ivan Krstić predicted in his May 13th blog post (see "Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC front"), the OLPC XO will start shipping with Windows XP, minus the Sugar interface and open source tools that allow full implementation of the XO hardware (e.g., mesh networking). ...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Federal charges in MySpace suicide case: Federal prosecutors have indicted Lori Drew for actions on MySpace that led 13-year-old Megan Meier right to kill herself, USA Today reports. She was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of computer crimes. The grand jury charges that she accessed protected computers without authorization to...; Tags: Count, Distress, Computer, MySpace, Mulford, Ron, Productivity, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software: Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....; Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand: Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Verizon wins Homeland Security contract: Verizon picked up a huge contract from the Department of Homeland Security: a $670 million deal to provide IP and security services over 10 years, Reuters reports. Verizon was the primary winner of the 10-year, $20 billion contract to provide a full range of telecommunications and related...; Tags: Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Networking, Homeland Security, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case: In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...; Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform: Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...; Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Patent reform dead for 2008: The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...; Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
More on the Vista DVD playback issue: I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...; Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-15