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Friday, July 25, 2008

Louisiana gets a new CIO
Louisiana names Edward Driesse to serve as its new chief information officer.
(Posted July 23, 2008)
GAO: States need more fed help preparing for pandemics
States remain weak in the areas of critical infrastructure, food safety reporting, and facilitating a medical care surge, the GAO found.
(Posted July 23, 2008)
A cloudy forecast for storage?
Agencies weigh the cost savings and risks of emerging “cloud” storage services?
(Posted July 21, 2008)
Nebraska, Idaho HIEs pick health record-sharing system
Both statewide health information exchanges choose solution from Axolotl as information management platform.
(Posted July 17, 2008)
Vermont trust fund aims at physicians' EHR adoption
Sponsors estimate that the fund will boost EHR penetration to 50 percent of the state's independent physicians during the next five years.
(Posted July 14, 2008)
New York state considers accrediting RHIOs
State officials will rely on RHIOs to govern health information exchanges and want to be able to assure stakeholders that they're up to the task.
(Posted July 10, 2008)
Report: States should prioritize e-records
State governments should take enterprisewide approaches to ensure that their electronic records are properly preserved, according to a report from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
New DHS rule would collect more info
The Homeland Security Department might demand additional information from importers and carriers that ship cargo to U.S. ports.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
Commerce versus security
The debate about screening shipping containers is one problem that current technology is not going to solve.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
No easy path to integrated MDA
Challenges in developing a collaborative maritime domain awareness system for better homeland security are many.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
Coast Guard fuses data sources
The Coast Guard uses a Trusted Computer Solutions product that received accreditation at the top-secret and secret levels in 2006.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
In search of safe harbor
The complexities of port facilities make maritime domain awareness one of the biggest challenges in homeland security.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
Ariz. assembles project experts
State officials say they are reaping the benefits of a training and certification program.
(Posted July 7, 2008)
GAO cites problems with response tools
Urban fire, police and emergency response personnel do not have the equipment to accurately and quickly identify and respond to the release of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials, according to the Government Accountability Office.
(Posted June 30, 2008)
BBN field tests portable translator
BBN Technologies has developed a translation device that enables a two-way dialogue between speakers of different languages.
(Posted June 23, 2008)
A new life for talk-to-text?
Efforts of speech-recognition developers could pay off as a smart application for smart phones.
(Posted June 23, 2008)
How secure is your COOP?
Contingency planners, such as New York’s William Pelgrin, must balance recovering quickly from a disaster with recovering safely.
(Posted June 23, 2008)
Missouri to build interface for Real ID
The Homeland Security Department will pay Missouri $17 million to develop the "verification hub" that states will use to verify documents presented in the Real ID application process.
(Posted June 20, 2008)
Software cements standards into health info exchanges
Healthvision unveils software adapter to help incorporate health IT standards into health information exchanges and systems.
(Posted June 18, 2008)
Keeping employees in the COOP loop
Agencies examine how to engage teleworkers in their continuity of operation plans.
(Posted June 13, 2008)






 
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