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A Veterans’ Program Meant to Help Increase Access to Health Care May Struggle to Do So

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

Improving veterans’ access to health care is a top priority for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which started the Veterans Community Care Program in 2019 to do just that. The program allows veterans to make appointments with local health care.

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AWS Partner Kokomo24/7 transforms Los Angeles Unified School District’s health data system in one year

AWS Public Sector Blog

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones. Since 2019, issued security volume has stayed high while service level performance has increased and AWS run costs have decreased.

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Helping micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises make economic and societal impacts with cloud technologies

AWS Public Sector Blog

These MSMEs also account for 99% of all companies, 70% of all jobs, and 60% of the gross domestic product (GDP) on average across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. For example, AWS Activate helps startups at the earliest stages looking to accelerate and grow their business.

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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

Open Access Government - Technology News

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’. Inspiring the next generation.

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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

In a city where streets account for 80 percent of public space, their domination by traffic makes it harder for people to walk, cycle, or take the bus. Over a 10-week period in 2019, TfL’s team fielded proposals for the RoadLab programme to cut congestion. By the end of 2022, 63 percent of journeys fulfilled these criteria.

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Enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration in digital pathology with cloud-based PACS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. A typical workload in a clinical pathology lab can be about 1,000 images per day, accounting for 10 terabytes (TB) of data generated daily.