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Welcome to Public Health Week!

Ah, April. Once again we are welcoming the month by shaking off the chill of the wintery months and getting into the mood for new life, warmer weather and recognition of the public health field. That’s right folks – we’ve made it to another Public Health Week! This year the theme is entitled: Safety isRead… Read more »

The Cloud and Cybersecurity

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. As part of federal CIO Vivek Kundra’s 25-point plan to reform federal IT management announced last December, federal agencies must adopt a “cloud-first” policy that requires them to move three applications to the “cloud” over the next 12 to 18 months. Agencies must identify theRead… Read more »

TMC – Too Much Connection

You ever wonder about the first person who bought a fax machine? The first person to buy a cell phone? How about the first person who set up an email account? These early pioneers must have had some difficulty in demonstrating the benefits of these these technologies because of the very small base of users.Read… Read more »

The Accidental Website Visitor

If you manage website content, then this advice from Gerry McGovern from his April 3rd blog post is well worth considering … It’s very important that you don’t attract the wrong type of person to your website. I dealt with a specialist government health website some years ago. Its objective was to help medical researchersRead… Read more »

A look at three 7 inch Android Tablets

I’ve been checking out a few Android tablets lately. All three use ARM based processors and run Android 2.x. The Barnes and Noble Nook Color runs a skinned over version of Android 2.1, while the Stream TV Elocity A7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab run Android 2.2. All have 7″ capacitive touch screens, however they areRead… Read more »

Wyoming moves forward on health information exchange

Wyoming will move forward on its electronic health records exchange. The state’s plan was approved by the federal government, which will provide $4.3 million in funding for the project over the next four years. Wyoming’s health information exchange was developed through a collaboration of consumers and health care providers in the state. This public-private collaborationRead… Read more »

Wyoming moves forward on health information exchange

Wyoming will move forward on its electronic health records exchange. The state’s plan was approved by the federal government, which will provide $4.3 million in funding for the project over the next four years. Wyoming’s health information exchange was developed through a collaboration of consumers and health care providers in the state. This public-private collaborationRead… Read more »

How not to engage

Originally posted here: http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/how-not-engage Hot on the heals of the announced cuts to the US online transparency programme comes another example of “How not to do Gov2.0” For those of you who may not be aware, the New Zealand city of Christchurch suffered a large earth quake (6.1 on the scale) back in late February,Read… Read more »

Was IT Really Worth It? The ROI Report Card for Government IT Projects

One problem for IT Directors is how to judge the success and failure of their IT deployments and how to calculate return on investment (ROI) for technology. Because government does things due to law, rule and regulation, it is required to undertake some tasks and this clouds the issue for how to gauge the valueRead… Read more »