Virginia, Microsoft set up electronic health care registry
Electronic health record system would enable residents to store advanced health directives on Microsoft's HealthVault personal health record platform.
Big data = smaller government
Government's increasing use of analytics software could help pull the nation out the current economic stall and make government programs smaller, smarter and cheaper.
Another door closes on open government
The shutting of California's Reporting Transparency in Government site is the latest blow to a movement that was launched with fanfare at the beginning of the Obama administration.
States welcome fed help picking health exchange IT
The National Governors Association says states welcome federal help picking IT products for building health insurance exchanges.
Steve Jobs' government legacy: Citizen-centric computing
Jobs' ability to craft tools for intensely personal computing helped spark direct citizen-to-government computing.
New modeling, analytics can help cities solve their fiscal crises
Without new analytic modeling technologies, cities might be in the dark about the best ways to solve some of their more complex financial problems.
The one constant element of agency IT projects
Creating a tag cloud from the GCN Awards' winning nominations reveals the one thing that, no matter the project, is on everyone's mind.
10 agency projects win 2011 GCN Awards
The winning project teams, selected from more than 200 nominated, combined leadership and technical innovation with a determination to improve services and cut costs.
Smart budgets put their money on IT
Shared systems and analytics tools can help agencies cut out the waste.
Why agencies are gun-shy of the public cloud
Agencies will embrace the public cloud once security tools are vetted and private pilots prove successful, agency experts say.
NY CIO: In the future, states will share systems
Acting New York State CIO Daniel Chan is seeking ways to show IT's value to taxpayers by using cloud technologies and sharing systems among states.
To take the next IT step, agencies have to get creative
Governments will have to resort to some atypical financial and management techniques to acquire cloud services under current economic conditions.
Federal IT spending to increase 5 percent, analyst says
Market research firm Input estimates annual federal IT budget will rise 5 percent annually despite proposed freeze in discretionary spending.
'Minority Report' technology is just a game -- for now
Advances in human interface technologies, evident in Microsoft's Kinect, have a lot of potential in public safety and health care.
Cops, collaboration and the cloud
The Port of Los Angeles' use of unified communications -- this month's cover story on GCN -- is a preview of how the public sector will be able to utilize the cloud as technology continues to evolve, free of any required device or network.
Microsoft exec: Policy haste makes IT waste (like, using Google Apps)
Public-sector lead Curt Kolcun calls for taking a closer look at government IT decisions made in a time of rapid industry change.
Microsoft strikes 14 new cloud services deals with state, local organizations
Fourteen state and local government agencies signed deals for cloud-based IT services with the software firm. Altogether, more than 3 million government employees now use its cloud offerings.
States to advise feds on nationwide data exchange project
The National Information Exchange Model will draw on input from NASCIO to help extend its data exchange program.
Gateways to the cloud — and a lot more
With ever more powerful mobile devices in the hands of government workers, and with IPv6 to enable new applications, government computing could be in for a makeover.
Texas ramps up statewide Medicaid services network
In a bid to lower its health care costs, the state of Texas has awarded a contract to give physicians the ability to access Medicaid records and order prescriptions electronically.
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