Up till now, doctors have had to pay for YY's remote monitoring service out of their own pockets.
Telehealth startups have been promoting their services with high-powered, venture capital-fueled publicity campaigns for years.
State and federal regulators, and health insurance trade groups, have been organizing all kinds of activities related to telehealth reimbursement for years.
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The third annual Smart Cities Connect Conference in Kansas City delivered an important message: become smart or be left behind.
In a decade, there may not be Smart City conferences like the one unfolding this week in Kansas City, Mo.
In 10 years this “movement,” — as it is often referred to by government and techie types — will have evolved to the point of being too ordinary to draw much attention, remarked Bob Bennett, chief innovation officer for Kansas City, and the somewhat unofficial host of the third annual Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo at the Kansas City Convention Center.
Plus, prominent Chicago civic tech group invites Illinois attorney general candidates to sign open data pledge; Bloomington, Ind., teams with a civic tech group to create an animal shelter Twitter bot; multiple cities create “Adopt-a-Drain” apps to encourage care for storm drains; and Boulder, Colo., works to turn data into art.
In news that will surely be of interest to the civic tech and open data crowds, the U.S. Justice Department has launched a new FOIA.gov site, redesigning the online portal through which citizens can request information under the Freedom of Information Act.
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The global economy is in constant turmoil, governments are challenged to provide levels of service that typically only private businesses can provide and disruptive technologies are transforming industry at a rapid pace. In this bold new era where change is unavoidable it is the innovative who are positioned to surely thrive.
In 2008, the global economy fell into recession; it was the most significant downturn since the Great Depression. Recovery has been a long and exasperating struggle; at times feeling like we are clinging to the edge of a cliff, desperately trying to hold on and weather-the-storm.
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We live in an age of continuous disruption and transformation, which means CIOs have to become brokers, integrators and orchestrators.
The march of technological change and disruption to traditional government service delivery is fostering the reboot of the planet, said Steve Bates, principal, Advisory Services at KPMG. “We’ve evolved [technologically] so fast in just a few years,” he said, it may be hard to understand your role in government.
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