Health & Human Services
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Multiple hospitals in rural Minnesota are reporting that Medicare is incorrectly rejecting claims for patient care due to a problem that appears to be related to a system put in place last year. -
The state is modernizing a legacy mainframe, working with federal counterparts and participating in the Child Welfare Technology Incubator initiative from the Administration for Children and Families.
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The hand-held, artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram, or ECG for short, has the ability to process the data as well as the larger machines that the paramedics have in their toolbox.
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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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Indian River County is leveraging a new vaccine registration system aimed at residents 65 and over. The new process is a notable change from the "first-come, first-served" system residents were struggling to navigate.
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The startup has traditionally served the process of re-integrating the incarcerated into society. Now it’s jumping into health care with an initiative in Arizona, and hoping to sell to state Medicaid agencies.
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SponsoredThe key to stopping the spread of the COVID virus is getting vaccines into the arms of individuals. Leveraging AI- and cloud-based technology can automate that process and ultimately save lives.
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Transit providers in Berks and Lancaster counties have upgraded fare payment and other technology to better enable contactless transactions amid a larger push to improve safety and convenience for riders.
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Ohio has developed a central coronavirus vaccine registration website that will allow people to sign up for the vaccine and is working to add providers to the system, Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday.
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At the start of COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the border city of Laredo, Texas, data entry errors led to not providing accurate information regarding how many vaccines were actually given to residents.
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Public health officials in Black Hawk County have been unable to collect important vaccination demographic data because of issues with state-run software. The missing data could identify disparities in vaccine distribution.
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The state’s Department of Natural Resources urged municipal water systems to take steps to secure their computerized control systems, after hackers accessed and made changes to a water treatment system in Florida.
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The city of Oldsmar’s water supply was the target of a remote attempt to raise the levels of sodium hydroxide — more commonly known as lye — by more than 100 times the normal level, before being noticed by an operator.
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SponsoredA three-step plan to help you keep citizens informed about vaccine availability; accept and respond to citizen inquiries; book vaccination appointments; and secure PHI.
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Repackaging and expanding upon prior tools for helping governments set up their own vaccine management systems, Salesforce has new cloud software for coordinating vaccines, citizens and employees.
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