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David Raths

Contributing Writer

David Raths is a contributing writer for Government Technology magazine.

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Public Safety
Increased Connectivity Brings Cybersecurity Threats to 911 Call Centers
Accompanying important benefits of the switch from analog to digital, one challenge looms large: the increased risk of cyberattacks on 911 call centers.
October 21, 2016
 · David Raths
Cybersecurity
Legislating Cybersecurity: Breaches Grab Lawmakers’ Attention
It often takes a data breach for lawmakers to pass significant legislation around cybersecurity.
October/November 2016
 · David Raths
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Cybersecurity
Legislating Cybersecurity: Lawmakers Recognize Their Responsibility with Cyberthreats
Legislators who take the time to study cybersecurity issues and ask tough questions of CIOs and CISOs are still the exception rather than the rule. But that may be changing.
October/November 2016
 · David Raths
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Government Experience
The Big Redesign: What’s Next for Government Websites?
States and localities have their work cut out for them when it comes to modernizing their portals.
September 2016
 · David Raths
Government Experience
When Publishing Open Data, Cities and States Have Variety of Platform Choices
As the open data publishing market heats up, all levels of government have more partners to choose from.
March 2016
 · David Raths
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Cloud & Computing
Why Public CIOs Are Attempting to Move 'Shadow IT' to 'Shallow IT'
Lately, the term “shadow IT” has grown to include the unsanctioned use of public cloud infrastructure for collaboration or file sharing, and some IT officials are looking to bring that use into the light.
June 2015
 · David Raths
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Recovery
NYC Talks Data Needs for Disease Outbreak Management
Better health IT integration and rapid access to clinical and lab data are critical for evaluating persons under investigation during an outbreak.
January 19, 2015
 · David Raths
Health and Human Services
OpenFDA: Making Federal Public Health Data Sets Accessible
Taha Kass-Hout, chief health informatics officer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, talks about the creation of openFDA.
January 13, 2015
 · David Raths
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Health and Human Services
Digital Health Dilemma: Regulators Struggle to Keep Pace with Health-Care Technology Innovation
Health IT firms are urging Congress and federal agencies to clarify and simplify several aspects of regulation, and to more frequently update their guidance.
January 12, 2015
 · David Raths
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Cloud & Computing
How the Cloud is Changing Everything for Government IT
More governments are doing big data analytics, high-performance computing, collaborative applications and disaster recovery in the cloud.
July 21, 2014
 · David Raths
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