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Data & Analytics
Next-gen health info exchange enables more data-informed decisions, better care
As Maryland’s newly designated health data utility, CRISP can access more data, expand and scale services and better support other state agencies.
Data & Analytics
States speed traffic data to drivers
Two-way data exchanges with Waze are improving highway safety and enabling faster reopenings after road closures.
Cybersecurity
Identity as the new perimeter: How one county launched its zero trust initiative
“If you can’t get your arms around identity, you’re never going to be able to address zero trust,” Maricopa County’s CISO Lester Godsey said.
Data & Analytics
A city where big data, analytics drive mobility choices
San Jose’s decision support system helps officials decide how well mobility projects support city goals and whether past actions have played out as expected.
Public Safety
State integrates 911 communications, data to improve emergency response
California is combining the data and notification capabilities of Rave Mobile Safety and RapidDeploy, allowing agencies to publish real-time incident data from their computer-aided dispatch systems to responders.
Data & Analytics
Investigators tap data, tech, tipsters to root out fraudsters
While prevention is the best defense against fraud, waste and abuse, the majority of state and local government analysts say they have the tools and resources they need to unravel complex webs of fraud, a recent survey says.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Telemedicine increases health equity for inmates
Colorado’s Department of Corrections is providing medical treatment via remote video consultations and connected scopes over fiber connections, which not only improves health outcomes but also minimizes the security and staffing needs required to transport prisoners to specialists.
Cybersecurity
Cyber modernization too complex for quick fixes, in-house solutions, report says
State and local agencies feel pressure to quickly overhaul their technologies and processes to stay ahead of adversaries and meet growing IT demands, but they first need an in-depth assessment of strategic costs and other implications.
Data & Analytics
Local gov keeps project knowledge from walking out the door
eProject eXpress tracks energy project information and verified savings, keeping all the important data, pictures and documents throughout the performance period and beyond.
Emerging Tech
Utah readies mobile driver’s license rollout
While the technology for the mDL is ready, the challenge is creating an ecosystem of partners who accept the digital ID.
Data & Analytics
Alaska automates tax collection from out-of-state sales
An online portal helps local governments with remote sales tax collection, remittance and enforcement.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Private LTE fills coverage gaps for communication emergencies
The Colorado Department of Transportation is testing a “network in a box” that would allow first responders and CDOT employees to communicate in remote areas or where the fiber infrastructure has been damaged.
Cybersecurity
How a fast-growing town moved from ad hoc to strategic cybersecurity
Security operations center as a service gives Gilbert, Arizona, a single pane of glass for support, services and collaboration.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud-based 911 for faster emergency response
With its interactive emergency communication response platform and access to a location data clearinghouse, the Rio Grande Council of Governments can speed help to 911 callers, even if they don’t know where they are.
Data & Analytics
Health info exchange’s data innovations take the ‘detective work’ out of public health
CRISP’s data lake and scalable, sharable applications help community health services in Maryland investigate overdoses.
Cloud & Infrastructure
County assessor’s code repository powers transparent government
Cook County, Illinois, Assessor’s Office moved paper-based and siloed property assessment records to the GitLab DevOps platform where developers now post data and code to a public-facing repository.
Emerging Tech
Smart cities grow up
Rather than technology driving smart city projects, today’s efforts focus on outcomes and ecosystems.
Cloud & Infrastructure
How to move a data center
Utah’s Division of Technology Services pushed 25% of its applications to the cloud and moved 2,000 servers, the state network, databases and a mainframe from a soon-to-be demolished building into a new facility with a faster network, new equipment and environmental monitoring.
Cybersecurity
Lawyers may be limiting threat info sharing
A new study examines how attorney-client privilege and work product immunity impacts cybersecurity.
Cloud & Infrastructure