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(7/18/2006) Ten years after HIPAA became a U.S. federal law, health insurers are scrambling to make changes to their IT systems in order to comply with one of its last major requirements. | (7/7/2006) Ken Cochrane has been appointed Chief Information Officer with the federal government after three years as Chief Executive Officer at the Information Technology Services Branch of Public Woprks and Government Services Canada. | (7/7/2006) The Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) is making improvements to its Information Systems Professional (ISP) designation program by creating a body of knowledge all IT practitioners should attain. | (7/4/2006) Human Services Minister Joe Hockey has vigorously defended the virtues of the federal government's planned smartcard, saying the project's cost will be controlled and people's privacy will not be compromised. | (6/20/2006) A recent Decima Research survey reported that more than half of Canadians would spend more time with their family and friends if they had collaborative tools to reduce the amount of in-person meetings they needed to attend. | (6/19/2006) The future of U.S. government IT systems will include a big focus on converting old data into electronic form, two government IT leaders said Friday. | (5/8/2006) The Bush administration believes it can cut the US government's annual IT infrastructure costs, proposed at US$22.4 billion for fiscal 2007, by 16 percent to 27 percent through increased consolidation, standardization and interoperability. | (4/5/2006) Provincial governments have given their stamp of approval, in the form of cold hard cash, to an e-learning pilot project for public service workers originally approved by the feds. | (3/30/2006) "Why don't governments just hurry up and automate these processes?" | (3/28/2006) Florida state employees are being warned that their personal information may have been compromised after work on the state's human resources system was improperly subcontracted. | (3/20/2006) The Australian federal government's funding hike in response to a "complex security environment" will see the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) appoint its first CIO this year with applications closing at the end of the month.
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  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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