Join us in Boston, Nov. 6 - 9 for APHA’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo and 150th anniversary celebration. The Meeting blends the legacy of APHA with innovative and exciting opportunities to help you reach your goals. Engage with public health experts, collaborate with other advocates and grow professionally. "150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity" APHA's Annual Meeting and Expo is an Investment: Hea...

Imagine Nation ELC 2022 brings together the government technology community to discuss the issues facing government and work together to develop practical solutions and innovative strategies. We expect over 650 executives from government and industry to participate in person plus a virtual audience in what has been described as the “best event in the government technology arena.” Seating is somewhat limited this year. The best way...

Building the Cyber Environs: Tools, Technology and Workforce The shift to digital, cloud, AI and other technologies has given rise to a variety of cyberattacks with an alarming cost. Government and industry continue to face critical security and risk issues with increased cyber threats, supply chain and cloud vulnerabilities, ransomware, phising, stolen credentials and identities, new sophisticated attack approaches and other cyber-types of at...

Data comes from many sources, data definitions, variations in data, different systems, and from many users. It is important to gather and identify data from a multitude of sources to explore data patterns and data trends to be used for forecasting, planning, future strategies, innovation, research, and others that are not affected by fluctuations, repeated sequencing over fixed periods of time, unexplained random variances, and much more. Ever...

Modernization is integral in the development of the Federal workforce as organizations fight to keep up with the private sector. Organizations and agencies need to begin to adopt more cutting edge technologies, such as automation of workflow processes, in order to be more forward-thinking and competitive. In order to fully reach a new potential within our Federal workforce, agencies need to center the implementation process as their goal. This...

State health departments are swamped with their responses to COVID-19 and the recent monkeypox outbreak, making it difficult to map out data modernization strategies. But two public health agencies, the Iowa Department of Public Health and Maryland Department of Health, have successfully adopted a "working backward" approach to strategic development. With the assistance of Amazon Web Services (AWS), these agencies have crafted roadmaps to thei...

State Medicaid systems are at important crossroads. The proliferation of data and new advancements in AI-powered analytics could revolutionize public health and patient care. But too many Medicaid systems still rely on legacy, on-premises systems that can’t scale or keep up with rapid change. By migrating core functions to the cloud, Medicaid agencies can implement transformative changes, modernizing whole systems to provide next-generat...

Amid an ever-changing technology landscape, digital transformation is more essential now than ever for state and local governments, as well as higher education institutions. As technology decision makers emerge from the crisis presented by the pandemic and into an era fueled by rapid modernization and digital expansion, leaders are ready to embrace change.With increasing demands from citizens for a better digital experience, government agencie...

This August, the tech industry's most prestigious award will be returning in person. The CIO 100 Symposium & Awards gathers the world's leading experts to honor the most cutting-edge contributions to the field. Each year, Hall of Fame inductees and CIO 100 Award winning companies join in an elite and intimate gathering. Celebrate with them this August 15-17 at the historic Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Tickets are $19...

1:1 student device programs are becoming the norm, not the exception. As K-12 schools and districts look to the future, these programs present exciting opportunities to advance student outcomes but will likely face challenges as well. And while there may be some remaining government funds that can be leveraged to support these programs, a fiscal cliff is looming that will impact how these programs are ultimately supported. Join the Center for...