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Revitalizing organizational health in the care delivery sector

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

The care delivery sector continues to navigate challenges following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meaningfully improving organizational health will be crucial to optimizing performance.

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TribalNet 2024: AI and Health IT Innovation Require Cybersecurity and Modernization

FedTech Magazine

Native American tribes and tribal agencies looking to benefit from artificial intelligence and advancements in healthcare IT must prioritize cybersecurity and IT modernization, according to CDW technology experts, citing a recent Indian Health Service implementation as an example. “IHS is planning for a new electronic health record, and as a part of this implementation, there will be some transition to the cloud.

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Application Modernization Is Key to Augmenting Citizen Services for State Government

State Tech Magazine

State governments too often are stymied by the limitations of their legacy technology, and no where is that more true than with old applications. Application modernization can revolutionize citizen services, and governments can capitalize on the doors opened by application modernization to create a more efficient and effective citizen experience. In 2022, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers released a report, “Application Modernization Is an Imperative for State Governme

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Technology alone is never enough for true productivity

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Technology continues to change how we work, and gen AI is the latest, greatest disruptor. But real productivity happens only when companies holistically rethink how they do business.

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How Breckenridge, CO Ensures Tax & Licensing Compliance

Breckenridge’s short-term rental boom—over 4,200 licenses —put intense pressure on the town’s small staff and manual processes. Facing compliance and efficiency challenges, the town teamed up with GovOS to automate its STR licensing. The new system: Cut admin time Reduced errors Improved the experience for property owners and town staff Discover the full impact of automation on Breckenridge’s STR management—download the case study.

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How Cities Can Support Family Economic Security

NLC (National League of Cities)

The research is clear: economic security is one of the strongest predictors of long-term well-being for families. And yet, too many families with young children lack economic security and experience high poverty levels. This puts babies and toddlers at a greater risk of chronic stress, adverse experiences and poor health.

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Truck as a service: The next step en route to zero-emission fleets

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Commercial vehicle decarbonization requires changes to the ways fleet trucks are financed and serviced. The truck-as-a-service model is the next logical step toward zero-emission trucking.

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Demand for efficient airplanes persists: An interview with Darren Hulst

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

McKinsey speaks to Darren Hulst, vice president of Boeing’s Commercial Marketing division, to discuss the latest industry trends and the outlook of aerospace 20 years into the future.

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Hydrating the Natural History Museum’s Planetary Knowledge Base with Amazon Neptune and Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Natural History Museum (NHM) in London is a world-class visitor attraction and a leading science research center. NHM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered up to transform and accelerate scientific research by bringing together a broad range of biodiversity and environmental data types in one place for the first time. The goal is to enable and accelerate much-needed research in the area of biodiversity that can help society address and combat the loss of global ecosystems.

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The bumpy road to zero-emission trucks

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

The shift to zero-emission trucks brings opportunities and challenges for the industry in core areas such as powertrain, service, and vehicle digitization. Making it happen will require greater cooperation.

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AWS helps Genomics England’s Multimodal programme accelerate research with whole slide images

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post from Genomics England. Pathologists have been looking at morphological patterns in patients’ tissue sections highlighted by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining for more than a century. However, as the pathology transformation from glass slides to digital imaging gains momentum, it opens the door to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to complement expert assessment with quantitative measurements to enable data-driven medicine.

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Overcoming Operational Challenges in Parks & Recreation

Speaker: Noratek

Maintaining parks and recreation facilities efficiently is no easy task, especially when faced with scheduling issues, aging infrastructure, and inconsistent inspections. Join us for this insightful webinar where we explore the most common challenges departments like yours are facing and how digital tools like CityReporter can help you streamline operations, ensure safety, and make better use of your resources.

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How to build awareness of flood risk and gain buy-in for flood control measures

American City & Country

Floods are one of the most devastating events to strike a community—costly in terms of lives lost, damaged or destroyed homes, economic disruption, and damage to critical infrastructure. However, improvements in technology are helping local governments provide accurate assessments of flood risk, so steps can be taken to provide early and accurate warning of flood events, minimize potential losses, and improve outcomes and overall resilience after a flood occurs.

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Capital-intensive projects: Approaches to prevent fraud, error, waste, and abuse

Open Access Government - Technology News

Leaders managing capital-intensive projects face the constant and serious challenge of controlling fraud, error, waste, and abuse (FEWA) Neglecting robust anti-fraud measures can result in the erosion of up to 5% of company spending with annual losses in the UK from procurement fraud alone amounting to £133.6 billion. Capital-intensive projects are inherently susceptible to FEWA due to their scale, complexity, and the significant sums of money involved.