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Public agencies use software from Libera for vocational rehabilitation. CiviCore, once part of Neon One, has government clients that include courts, schools and health and human services departments. -
The state Department of Commerce’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy is working with an AI-powered health platform to support faster prescription renewals for state residents with chronic conditions.
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Analytics will give the state's Department of Social Services data it can use to ensure benefits are being used as they were intended.
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Pager, which launched in May, is an app that allows patients to order a house call from a physician, using their smart phones. The service is available on a limited basis in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but it could spread to other cities by 2015.
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The new contract with Deloitte Consulting will add experts to work with both MN.IT and the Department of Human Services to do more in-depth testing and design work.
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While automatic renewals sound like good news after troubled enrollments, many may end up paying far more than they need to and with policies that don’t best fit their individual circumstances.
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The pharmaceutical industry and health care groups agree the relationships should be more transparent and information about them should be more accessible to the public.
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According to an independent analysis, the system is still in the "lengthy, expensive design phase," while disabled Americans continue to wait hundreds of days — and sometimes years — for benefits.
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Driving the trend is the black market. Whereas thieves might pay a buck for a stolen credit card number, a full-identity profile from a medical record can fetch up to $500, experts say.
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With HHS-Connect, a comprehensive initiative to use technology in health and human services, New York City hopes to break down existing information silos and empower caseworkers with better information about clients’ needs. -
Several public drinking water systems in Texas have quality issues that have not been adequately addressed, the Environmental Protection Agency told the state in recent correspondence obtained by the Tribune.
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The state-run site will be used to attract roughly 75,000 currently uninsured Hawaii residents — or 5.5 percent of the population — during the Connector’s next enrollment period
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MedEx Ambulance Service has acquired two pairs of Google Glass, allowing paramedics to transmit live video and audio from an ambulance to a doctor in an emergency room.
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The state, with its unique setting, works to secure its food supply.
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The board will report to the Legislature in September on whether the bureaucracy set up to operate Oregon's health insurance exchange should remain a stand-alone public corporation or other agency, and if so how board members should govern it.
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How planners in Oregon and Kentucky use smartphones to collect valuable information.
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Changing computer systems to comply with new standardization of Medicaid eligibility has proved more difficult and time-consuming for some states than others.
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