The current Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System (MEDS), implemented in 1983, is maintained on legacy technology by the Department of Health Care Services.
More than a decade in the making, the state's Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) appears to be gradually changing trajectory as it moves from strictly being an IT project to becoming a service-oriented, customer-focused organization.
Ed Chau, the chair of the Assembly's Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, thinks California should pay money to white-hat hackers and security researchers who find vulnerabilities in the state's computer systems and websites.
California must overcome some cultural barriers in using agile development, because IT has been conditioned for many years to work within the waterfall approach.
The $98 million project has been more than a decade in the making and suffered stops and starts. Monterey and Stanislaus counties were the final two counties added, completing a phased rollout that had been ongoing since last summer.
Executives from CKAN, GovDelivery, Junar and Socrata each highlighted convergences and differentiators among competitors in the open data industry during a forum in the Sacramento area on Monday. But all agreed the sector is growing and maturing, and the technology that underpins the presentation of data is becoming more user friendly and sophisticated.
Two Assembly committees — Accountability and Administrative Review, and Privacy and Consumer Protection — are convening the joint hearing, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in Room 437 at the State Capitol.
San Diego County is again rebidding its enterprisewide technology and telecommunications outsourcing agreement, a public-private structure that initially began in 1999. The county will choose a prime contractor from five prequalified vendors.
AB 1955 would amend the Public Contract Code to instruct state agencies to give a "preference" to vendors that carry cybersecurity insurance when procuring IT goods and services. The bill stipulates that vendors that don't have cybersecurity insurance would not be prevented from bidding on state IT contracts.
Mary Winkley, who leads the Consulting and Planning Division within the California Department of Technology, is moving to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to become the organization's agency information officer.
A new bill from Assemblymember Brian Jones, R-Santee, would add another requirement when the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) submits its progress report to the Legislature each year.
A state audit of Covered California's use of sole-source contracts recommends reinstating independent verification and validation (IV&V) services for the computerized system that allows Californians to enroll in health insurance plans.
Water information in California is, in many respects, a decentralized resource. Hundreds of water districts, cities and counties, and the state government all house silos of data that aren't necessarily shared.
A five-year, $508,000 contract with Utilimarc Inc., would authorize funding to install the vendor's GPS devices on an additional 150 light-duty vehicles and pay for airtime on approximately 550 vehicles, according to a City Council brief. Sacramento already has installed 400 of the GPS devices.
With the state of California embarking on an agile approach for the procurement and development of a new child welfare system, state officials and outside observers both have said there will be some experimentation to figure out what works best for the state and what doesn’t.
Techwire’s editors and writers have spoken to more than a dozen state officials and subject matter experts about California’s plans to switch to agile for the development of a new child welfare system. A common theme from those conversations is that the state must “start small” if it hopes to succeed.
The state of California has finalized a nearly $2.6 million contract with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services (HPE) for work on the California Immunization Registry (CAIR) 2.0 project, according to procurement records.
California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) officials say a newly launched IT system and website should make it less cumbersome to find and apply for state jobs and will help hiring managers find more qualified candidates.
A multi-agency state pilot program started in 2013 to combat tax evasion within California’s underground economy has helped identify and investigate more than $60 million in potentially lost revenue, a Board of Equalization official said this week.
The State Treasurer’s Office has released its request for offer (RFO) that will guide a new procurement and development approach for modernizing California’s Debt Management System.
California's decision to procure Office 365 was a statewide decision with input from agency information officers and department-level CIOs, said Chris Cruz, chief deputy director of operations for the Department of Technology.
Karen Wong, capping a career in California state government that began in 1976, says it's an exciting time to be working in her field because technology is converging.
The session's lineup of speakers reinforced a report the commission last fall called "Customer-Centric Upgrade For California Government,” which suggests the state of California designate a chief customer officer and follow the lead of the federal government’s digital strategy, among other reforms to improve the public’s trust and confidence in government.
Cal Fire would like to spend $3 million to boost its IT staffing levels in order to address a "significant threat of system failures" and protect against cyberattacks, according to state documents.
Covered California in 2012 awarded Accenture a $359 million, five-year contract with three one-year options for initial and ongoing development of CalHEERS. The base term will expire in June 2017.
