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departments govtech.com 38 High-Speed Portal Project Massachusetts’ Health Insurance Connector Authority took only four months to procure, develop and roll out a portal offering citizen health insurance plans. e-government nment ment S TAT E | LO C A L | F E D E R A L august 2008 GARMIN NÜVIFONE TOUCHSCREEN j news Massachusett Connector Aut months to p roll out a p hea 10 Big Picture GT editors report from the road. 42 On Track B Y A N D Y O P S A H L | F E AT U R E S E D I T O R High-Speed Florida State Attorney’s Office uses RFID to track case files. PortalProjec On the Scene 12 44 Wi-Fi on a Shoestring With a budget of $8,500, a small city in rural Kentucky builds a municipal Wi-Fi network. 38 56 Products Garmin, Samsung, Adesso, AgfaPhoto side from some low-income exceptions, not having health insurance is illegal in Massachusetts. Given that most state citizens face tax penalties of up to $912 if they don’t acquire health insurance, the state aids their insurance selection process through a Web portal. The Legislature passed the insurance mandate in April 2006 with an effective date of July 2007. To give citizens a few months to shop and complete paperwork before the July deadline, however, the state needed to begin aiding the insurance shopping process by May 2007. The law established the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, a A 46 From Paintball to Video Ulster County, N.Y police officers ., are armed with firearms training simulator. 50 Virtually Vulnerable Growing use of virtualization raises new cyber-security questions. AUG_08 clearinghouse for insurance plans a ments from private insurance provid agency also runs Commonwealth Car fully subsidizes health insurance for below the federal poverty line and subsidizes insurance for those wh incomes up to three times the povert After the seven months it took to the Connector Authority, only four remained to find a vendor, develop out a Web site. The Web site prem time with the first of three phases: unsubsidized health insurance plans “This was the fastest rollout I have e and it was for something that was critical,” said Dhiraj Goklani, senior columns 6 Point of View A Politician Who Gets ‘IT’ 42 54 How It Works 58 signal:noise Funding Schemes, in the Nicest Sense of the Word 14 Four Questions for … Dale Jablonsky, CIO of the California Employment Development Department 8 The Last Mile Simple Green Solutions month: High-Tech Highways Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) don’t herald a new age of ’60s-era transportation futurism. There will be no flying cars or downtown monorails. What ITS can do, however, is make the current traffic situation more bearable. Find out how in the September issue of Government Technology. AUG_08 next 4 http://www.govtech.com http://www.govtech.com

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Government Technology - August 2008 Contents Point of View The Last Mile Big Picture On the Scene Four Questions for... Net Gains A Government Technology® Industry Profile: CA CA Contents IT Network Management: State and Local Governments Face New Challenges MyFloridaNet Arkansas Department of Information Systems Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Government Tightens Its Belt Rocking the Vote High-Speed Portal Project On Track Wi-Fi on a Shoestring From Paintball to Video Virtually Vulnerable How It Works Products signal:noise

Government Technology - August 2008

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