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Medicare began covering telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic and has maintained the popular offering through temporary waivers approved by Congress since. -
Modernizing benefits delivery is no longer a question of “if,” it’s a question of “how well.” Making benefits more easily accessible improves staff workload, increases user satisfaction and improves outcomes.
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Tech companies are now creating tools to help government find and fight misinformation online. One startup, Logically, explains how its new platform Logically Intelligence can root out dangerous content. -
The ride-share will be offering up to 20,000 free or discounted rides to New Orleans residents with appointments to receive a COVID-19 vaccination as part of a partnership with the city and a number of other local organizations.
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Through a compilation of cellphone location tracking data, Google has painted a picture of how Californians have changed their travel habits as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Granicus, which has a wealth of data on the performance of emails sent from government to the public, has released statistics on which kinds of emails about the COVID-19 vaccines do best. Here are the big takeaways.
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The company's Electric Vaccine Vehicle can drive up to 50 miles and can be recharged on a standard electrical outlet, making it a potentially attractive cost-saving vaccine delivery option.
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A community's wastewater can predict coronavirus cases that haven't yet been diagnosed. The quicker that information is known, the better.
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Plus, Philadelphia’s Digital Literacy Alliance has announced its winter 2020 grant cycle recipients, NYC overhauls its online vaccine finder platform and NYC releases a new broadband-related RFP.
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The new system, developed in partnership with IBM, will allow users to print out their negative test results or vaccine status or store the information in a smartphone app for use at certain venues.
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SponsoredState quickly migrates core IT systems to manage sudden spikes in demand related to COVID-19.
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Illinois’ state government is one of several agencies taking a data and analytics-driven approach to messaging around COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts, similar to the same efforts for the U.S. Census.
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Officials from L.A. County, the nation’s most populous county, and the California Department of Technology offered their takeaways from the rollout of the My Turn COVID-19 vaccination eligibility website.
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PrepMod, an online clinic management and appointment scheduling system, claimed responsibility for errors that occurred when the platform was unable to scale to "a sudden and unprecedented surge in traffic to the site."
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A new survey of economic development professionals suggests that more telehealth access and local control of broadband-related factors can give cities and counties an economic leg up.
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According to findings from Crowdstrike’s 2021 Global Threat Report, the health-care and pharmaceutical industries bore the brunt of cyberattacks in 2020 as hackers searched for information on COVID-19 and vaccine development.
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Vaccine seekers have been navigating conflicting information from the state’s MyTurn COVID-19 vaccine registration website, in some cases allowing appointments to be mistakenly booked by people outside the county.
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