Health and Human Services
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The data tool and interface, which was built in-house to flag crime and misuse, has saved the state millions and ensures benefits go to those in need. Created with federal funding, it recently earned a governor’s award.
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North Carolina’s PATH NC platform will have features including AI-assisted tools. It will also digitally connect the state’s 100 counties for the first time in such a way, offering exponential change in case handling.
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The St. Mary’s Food Bank is using GIS technology to get food to communities, an initiative that plays an increasingly important role as the federal government explores funding changes to benefits programs.
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Plus, the CA.gov redesign is now underway; new tools created to help address online misinformation; Census State Data Centers are offering localized training resources for community groups; and more!
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Text-to-911 capabilities aimed at helping residents get better access to emergency response are now in place at a regional Iowa communications center, which connects people to fire, police and sheriff's departments.
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By tapping human-centered design principles, the i-Team in Durham, N.C., has helped the district attorney remove 51,000 charges for 35,000 individuals, many of whom were facing restricted driving privileges.
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Telemedicine has made strides in Indiana since the state passed its first major piece of legislation in 2015, regulating the new technology and requiring private payers and Medicaid to cover telehealth services.
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Since Tucson combined police and fire communications centers and upgraded the technology used to dispatch multiple units from different stations, hold times for 911 calls to police have been cut by three-fourths.
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As Brockton, Mass., comes under scrutiny for failure to inspect thousands of apartments that have fallen out of compliance, officials have promised to implement tech changes to modernize code enforcement efforts.
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Students at Carencro High in Louisiana are helping to catalog litter around Lafayette Parish by using a new survey app that allows them to upload their findings into an interactive storytelling platform.
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The Louisiana Department of Health has partnered with vendor MAXIMUS to streamline Medicaid enrollment, creating the Healthy Louisiana app. Eligible residents can use the app to compare health-care plans and find doctors.
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A Charlotte nonprofit is working on creating a Web tool that will map all food sources in a multicounty region, hoping to create a resource for locating local markets, community gardens, farms and more.
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Nearly half of the people released from prison in North Carolina are arrested again within two years of re-entering society — a troubling statistic that the state is trying to chip away at with new technology.
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CentraCare Health has been awarded a grant of $234,648 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve its telehealth services by installing video equipment within 10 clinics throughout nine counties.
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As an increasing number of cities nationwide work to foster equitable outcomes for residents, Albuquerque has created a new case study for how data can be used in various ways to lift populations up.
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The reports from phone and internet companies, made available Tuesday, help explain why hundreds of thousands of people lost critical communications tools during Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s October blackouts.
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Users build an electronic vault for online records held by financial institutions, government agencies, insurance firms and even social media and email services. The info remains locked until the individual passes away.
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The film, which is titled Code & Response, is part of a larger effort by IBM to help foster and support projects aimed at helping communities prepare for and recover from a global spike in natural disasters.
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During a nearly three-hour hearing on municipal code amendments aimed at bringing Laguna Beach into compliance with federal rules, residents made one thing clear to the City Council — they don’t want 5G in their town.
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Advocates for the deaf and other New York residents unable to make emergency voice calls say the new text-to-911 service, which was supposed to be available in early 2018, can’t come soon enough.
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The Southern California university is helping an assortment of government groups tap into a relatively new data platform that provides innovative opportunities for research, policy and storytelling.
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