AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To better support its clients, Acentra Health implemented an intelligent document processing (IDP) solution using AWS services. In this post, learn how Acentra Health’s IDP solution reduced document processing times by more than 50 percent and lowered document processing costs by 40 percent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

This is often attributed to configuration management, total asset inventory, compliance with agency third-party security tools, and agency authorization documentation. The key to ensuring security and compliance is ensuring proper documentation and securing the baseline template utilized.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Compliance document retrieval prompt Use case narrative: An agencies IT department requires the latest FedRAMP compliance documents to ensure that cloud services used by the agency meet federal security standards. User: Does AWS have any recent FedRAMP compliance documents?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Document the necessary steps, including escalation procedures, communication protocols, and the recovery processes. Make sure that teams have access to the documentation, tools, and resources they need to effectively troubleshoot and resolve issues. Continuously improve.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

In these applications, documents—in various sources, formats, and layouts—are the primary tools for application assessment. Processing these documents manually or by using legacy optical character recognition (OCR) systems is time-consuming and prone to error. Tens of millions of residents apply for these benefits every year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

These changes impact document-based workflows, both existing and newly developed, and require timely processing of information. Organizations can turn to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement intelligent document processing (IDP) workflows.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

State and local agencies are using generative artificial intelligence for a wide range of tasks, from modernizing old code to intelligently processing documents and improving the citizen experience by augmenting the capabilities of contact center agents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. While we focus on naturalization as our primary example, the solution discussed can be applied to any public sector use case involving large-scale document processing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

The platform helped the agency digitize and process forms, pictures, and other documents. The federal government agency Precise worked with needed to automate manual processes for document intake and image processing. For image processing, the agency does a lot of inspections and takes a lot of pictures.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Bedrock Studio users can test different LLMs side by side to understand which ones best suit their specific use cases: from drafting policy documents to analyzing public feedback, or creating educational content.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Large language models, or LLMs, underpin that state and local governments are looking to achieve with artificial intelligence. While these powerful models help bring generative AI to life, they need to be handled with care to ensure privacy and security, among other considerations.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Artificial intelligence is slowly but surely making its way into state and local government operations. Many decision-makers remain concerned about a lack of comprehensive high-level policies governing AI's use, and others have a general sense of unpreparedness to integrate AI into existing workflows.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

Several options exist for storing and adding references to grant proposals or other documents, such as project reports and research papers. Without one, you’ll have to collect your references in a Word document or something similar and, depending on the required style, manually format the citations before pasting them into your document.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Access to key documentation is both a struggle and a necessity for vulnerable and at-risk communities. For the unhoused, being ‘document ready’ is essential to avoid delays or denial of access to benefits and services they need. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Given their limited qualified workforce, examiners can only thoroughly review a small percentage of documentation. Increase the percentage of reviewed documentation from 20 to 100 percent using generative AI, while maintaining human review at the existing 20 percent level.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 9, 2024

All types of grant documents that you create should go through a copy edit. Copy editing results in non-permanent suggestions and queries throughout a document that optimize sentences, paragraphs, and storytelling. After considering the mock review results, the grant writer responsively modifies the documents as needed.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Document processing and call routing are the lifeblood of any police station. Because documentation is a vital component in all legal matters, every law enforcement agency strives to increase speed and accuracy when creating those documents and reducing bottlenecks.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

The map documented that citizens often did not understand… But Code for America has found that the petition processes “to clear criminal records in most states is complicated and burdensome.”

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The longer you can step away from the document, the better, although if you have an immediate deadline, even a few hours away can help. The second tip is to conduct your review on a physical copy of the document. Some people swear that the only way to edit a document effectively is to print a copy and physically mark it up.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Advances in technology have made work more digital, but theres still a lot to print, from critical items such as contracts to day-to-day office documents. This has led to a host of new devices designed to meet the need for home and in-office printing, such as the HP LaserJet Enterprise M480f laser multifunction printer.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

When items such as personnel records, case files, intelligence documents or travel documents go missing, even for a few minutes, it can cause huge problems for federal employees…

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Government employees spend a lot of time writing resolutions and other regulatory documents, but AI could speed up such work for them. “… Speaking Thursday at the Public Technology Institute’s 2024 AI and Cyber Summit in Washington, D.C., Scott Varner, director of IT and management information systems for Frederick County, Va.,

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

As state governors set their technology agendas for 2023, many are seeking to capitalize on available budgets with incremental IT modernization initiatives. One such example is the governor of Washington’s request that state agencies pitch “a short-term, low-risk, high-reward project idea to update outdated applications.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Not all citizens have the same ability to identify and digest the information that’s important to them, so councils have to invest in alternative versions of documents in a format known as Easy Read. An average document of five pages would take two weeks to adapt, and cost £500 ($750).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

1) Place current incident management runbook as documents in AWS Systems Manager. To access the runbook when you need it, place the runbook as documents in the response plan of the AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager. Figure 2: Your runbook as Automation Documents. Automation of incident responses starts with a single step.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2023

These outdoor stations often relied on 5G wireless networks to handle the high concentration of smartphones, wireless scanners, tablets, notebooks and sensors involved in administering the tests and documenting patients’ information.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 12, 2025

Share resources: Upload documents, presentations, and videos to an accessible online hub where participants can review materials before and after the meeting. Digital platforms can enhance this in several ways: Colour-coded documents: Use colour to make resources more visually distinct and easier to navigate.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount. IDP automatically captures data from documents and data sources, then quickly analyzes and organizes this information for further processing. Accenture was called in to help speed up the process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Maria spends hours reading through information on websites and reviewing publicly available documents to understand the benefits she may be eligible for and the application process. Additionally, she must provide various proof documents, such as pay stubs, bills, and identification, which may not be readily available or easily accessible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

From recorded testimonies to jail cell conversations, audiovisual files can play an important role in accurately documenting evidence that can make or break a case. The user identifies specific words of interest to be highlighted in the document and initiates the transcription process.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

A gap analysis should result in a documented framework. So, prior to acquiring any cyberdefense technology, counties and cities might conduct a gap analysis and establish an incident response plan to see where they are and how they can best mitigate attacks. Being prepared for a security breach may save a city significant cash and time.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

These embeddings capture the semantic and contextual relationships between words, phrases, or documents in a high-dimensional vector space. Amazon Bedrocks writing assistance can help analysts and operators produce clear, concise documents while adhering to specific security protocols and terminology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Submit the eCR document with a natural language prompt specifying the data elements to extract, such as hospitalization status or appropriate treatment, to the Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku model on Amazon Bedrock. By using this workflow, public health agencies can streamline the process of extracting and utilizing critical data from eCRs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Handling approximately 285,000 legal cases annually means that the Nebraska Judicial Branch manages hundreds of thousands of paper documents, audio and video files, and various forms of evidence every year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

For document translation, you can use the batch API to translate a set of documents. Human augmentation – Once the translated documents are ready you can opt to conduct a human review of the ML results for precision. You can also store document metadata in Amazon DynamoDB.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Platforms have evolved into tightly integrated systems of systems, which is driving organizations to transform their document-based systems engineering processes into digital engineering and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This helped reduce the time consuming and error-prone process of manual documentation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this blog post, we cover public sector use cases that are driving the adoption of serverless and containers, such as generative AI, data analytics, document processing, and more. Examples where workflow orchestration is applicable are case management systems and document processing systems.

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