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NASCIO All States Innovations Forum: New York City Connect Initiative - Standards Based Information Exchange within State Health and Human Services

August 24, 2010

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This session will show how information exchange standards provide strategic capabilities that are making New York City a connected city. As integrated components of the enterprise architecture, standards based information exchanges allow information to be assembled, presented and shared across a wide agency user base.

You will hear how New York City's HHS-Connect program has:

• broken down stove piped organizational boundaries
• created dynamic data driven integration
• enabled feature rich applications
• provided more complete and timely information at the point of service delivery.

We will describe the power of these capabilities in non-technical terms while highlighting the dramatic reduction in development, maintenance, and security complexity. You will hear the lessons learned in implementing standards based information exchanges and how these capabilities may ultimately connect or provide information that can improve constituent quality of life and create operational efficiencies.

Presenter

• Joe Fleischman is the HHS Connect program/project manager within the office of the CIO for Health and Human Services of New York City. He is responsible for implementation of the City's core HHS Connect initiatives which include various front end and back end capabilities designed to improve access for citizens, streamline processes for NYC front line workers, and break down information silos across NYC health and human services.

NASCIO All States Innovations Forum: The State of Colorado Data Strategy – Enabling State Government Effectiveness through Enterprise Data Management and Governance

July 13, 2010

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Since 2007, The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) in the state of Colorado has produced a ground-breaking and progressive agenda for information sharing and information technology management.

OIT has focused on agile application and service delivery with a strong emphasis on data quality. The Colorado Data Strategy ensures that state government policy makers and knowledge workers have the data and information they need to do their work. The business-ization of government requires a disciplined approach to managing data and information resources. Outcomes gained include:

• dismantling data silos
• implementing the necessary infrastructure to enable collaborative information sharing across agencies, branches, and levels of government
• acquiring the necessary tools to build capacity for knowledge and performance management going forward

In this Innovations Forum, we will present an overview of Colorado's Data Strategy and how they are building a Data Governance Program from the ground up.

We will discuss how the Colorado Children and Youth Information Sharing Initiative is working with OIT, utilizing the Colorado Data Governance Framework to collaborate with state and local agencies on juvenile justice information exchanges and the outcomes gained.

We will also discuss how this effort is leveraging the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) to design and implement cross agency information exchanges, and how this effort is helping to create a Youth, and Family Domain for NIEM through the National Juvenile Information Sharing Initiative with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

Opening remarks:

• Leah Lewis, Acting Chief Information Officer for the state of Colorado

Speakers:

• Micheline Casey – Micheline Casey is the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Director of Identity Management in the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) in the State of Colorado. As CDO, she is responsible for developing and executing the State's enterprise data strategy, and developing the strategic plan for implementing a data governance and data management framework across the State's Executive Branch agencies. She coordinates OIT legislative and policy actions as necessary for this strategic effort. In this role, Ms. Casey also chairs the Government Data Advisory Board, a legislatively mandated, Governor-appointed Board which was established to advise the State Chief Information Officer on matters related to enterprise data management and service delivery. In her other role, Ms. Casey leads OIT's efforts in developing Identity, Credential and Access Management as a common framework and shared service across the State. She is responsible for developing the State's strategy on implementing identity management as service for the state.
• Stephanie Rondenell – Stephanie Rondenell is the Executive Director of the Center for Network Development. Ms. Rondenell has also served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the juvenile information sharing initiative with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for nine years. Ms. Rondenell has over 16 years of experience in leading national technical assistance projects with national organizations involved in court improvement efforts and criminal justice integration. Ms. Rondenell supervises the technology component of the National Juvenile Information Sharing Initiative. Ms. Rondenell has 20 years experience in the justice and public safety sector related to systems analysis, IT management, IT integration, project management, and business process improvement. She has participated with juvenile, trial and appellate courts in projects related to systems integration, software/application development, XML development and business process improvement. Ms. Rondenell is working with OJJDP to develop a governance structure for the implementation of a new domain for NIEM.

NASCIO All States Innovations Forum: Successfully Implementing Business Intelligence and Analytics for Effective Use – What To Do Before You Do All That Technical Stuff

May 25, 2010

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Business Intelligence (BI) is the catalyst for making good management decisions. The Virginia Information Technologies Agency recognized that BI is key to maintaining Virginia’s excellent management reputation.

This session presents how the initiative to upgrade Virginia’s BI tools recognized that the people and business process issues were more critical to success than the BI technology. You will hear how Virginia’s initiative to upgrade BI tools used the creation of a knowledge worker community of practice – a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) – to raise the level of business involvement in the increased use of BI.

Learn how the focus on the people and process of change, rather than just the technical issues, improved the usefulness of the new tools. You will hear the lessons learned in establishing this center of excellence. We will describe how a BICC can improve the usefulness and effectiveness of BI in your state.
 

Opening remarks:

• Peggy Feldmann: Ms. Feldmann is the Director of the Enterprise Applications Division of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. As the Director of Enterprise Applications at the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Chief Applications Officer, Ms. Feldmann is responsible for the Commonwealth’s data standardization, portfolio management and strategic applications planning.

Speakers:

• Kathy Graham: Graham is Manager of the BI Competency Center to help Commonwealth agencies use the data they already possessed in order to make better decisions. Kathy’s current team, the core team for the Business Intelligence Competency Center, won the Digital Government Achievement award in 2009 for the ww.stimulus.virginia.gov web site’s reports “Where is Your Money Going?” that provide citizen input and funding reports for the Federal ARRA money. The team was able to design and implement that application in less than two weeks because the BICC had recently established a BI Shared Service and an architecture that made it easy to bring disparate data sources together.
• Paul Flanagan: Mr. Flanagan has implemented business intelligence programs for enterprises in the private, not–for–profit and the public sectors. As a senior level strategic IT consultant, Paul works with senior executives, management and knowledge workers to determine the best implementation or upgrade of business intelligence tools. As part of BI implementations, Paul always establishes a BI center of excellence. Implementing this community of practice for knowledge workers is a recognized best practice for any BI implementation. This Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) empowers the knowledge workers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of any BI installation.

Gaining Competitive Advantage through NIEM - How NASCIO Corporate Members Can Position Themselves as Enablers of Government Collaboration

March 17, 2010

The objective of this forum is to build awareness of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) among the community of corporations serving government. This forum has been developed with our NASCIO Corporate Members as our primary audience. However, federal, state and local government representatives will find this informative as well.

Government relies on its industry partners for much of the planning and implementation of technology solutions. This includes the development of information exchanges. It is extremely prudent for industry to understand one of the foremost government best practices for planning, designing, and implementing these exchanges - the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). The purpose of this Innovations Forum is to communicate the value of NIEM to our corporate members so they can position themselves in the market for government services to deliver NIEM conformant solutions.

We will discuss how NIEM has been leveraged in several government cross-boundary initiatives and the outcomes that resulted from the ability to effectively share information. Please join us and learn what a growing number of corporations are embracing as a market advantage within their government service offerings.

Opening remarks:

• Paul Berkel, Director, Public Sector, EMC, Chair of the NASCIO Corporate Leadership Council
• Donna Roy, Executive Director, National Information Exchange Model, Applied Technology, Office of the CIO, Department of Homeland Security

Speakers:

• Paul Wormeli - Mr. Paul Wormeli is Executive Director of the Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, a non-profit corporation formed to help state and local governments develop ways to share information among the disciplines engaged in law enforcement and the administration of justice. Mr. Wormeli was the first national project director of Project SEARCH, and was subsequently appointed by the President as Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been an advisor to the White House on security and privacy, participated in the drafting of Federal law on this topic, and responsible for the development of numerous state plans to implement the Federal and state laws on information system security and privacy. During his tenure in the Justice Department, he served on the President's Committee on Drug Enforcement. Mr. Wormeli is an author and lecturer on law enforcement and justice technology.
   
• Christopher Traver - Mr. Christopher Traver serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for Justice Information Sharing at the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Mr. Traver brings a broad range of experience to BJA, and is responsible for supporting development of national policy, procedures, and technology standards on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice’s efforts to support the information sharing goals of local, state, and Tribal justice practitioners. Mr. Traver has made significant contributions on numerous national programs, including the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, Global Justice XML Data Model, National Information Exchange Model, Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website, Justice Reference Architecture, and many others. In his role, Mr. Traver works to establish partnerships at all levels of government across the country, helps identify funding opportunities, coordinates training and technical assistance delivery, and maintains a close relationship with the private industry and other stakeholders to best assess and respond to the needs of the field.

Changing a Child’s Future through Cross Agency Information Sharing: Child Welfare, Child Support and the Courts Working Together

February 9, 2010

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Timely information exchange between social workers and the courts can mean the difference between life and death for a child. It is essential that child welfare and the courts are communicating current developments as custody and child support cases are being discussed and before the courts make final decisions. Colorado has enabled this necessary information exchange through the use of the National Information Exchange Model - NIEM.

In this session we will describe how Child Support, Child Welfare, and the courts are able to share information and collaborate. These agencies are employing the NIEM standards to develop schemas and information exchange packages (IEDP’s) for use in “staying connected.”

We will show how these standards have enabled the state of Colorado to develop automated communications resulting in improved performance, reduced costs, and improved workflow that resulted in improving their core mission of helping children obtain the support they require. We will describe the business and social benefits that resulted from this collaboration and outline future directions.

Opening remarks:

• Mike Locatis, Chief Information Officer for the state of Colorado.

Speakers:

• Maureen Leif - Maureen is currently the Child Support Enforcement Coordinator at the Colorado Judicial Branch, serving as a liaison between the Judicial Branch and the State, County and Federal Offices of Child Support. Maureen serves on numerous state committees dealing with child support, domestic relation and child issues, including being appointed by Governor Bill Owens to the Child Support Commission. She has been involved with data exchange projects for the Colorado Judicial Branch and the project manager for the Data Information SHaring (DISH) Grant for the past three years.
   
• Richard Ordowich - Richard is the Coordinator for Data Quality/Data Standards at the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) within Federal HHS. He is working on helping establish best practices in data standards and data quality improvement at OCSE. Working with the various divisions within OCSE and collaborating with workgroups including the Data Exchange for Courts and Child Support, Richard has helped in the development of the OCSE data standards governance polices as well as developing best practices for data harmonization and naming conventions. These efforts help improve the quality of data and will contribute to an increased opportunity for sharing data within the child support community.
   
• David Baker - David, a Senior Technical Specialist with ICF International, has worked on Administration for Children and Families (ACF) human services IT projects for 20 years, including work with Head Start, Child Care, Child Support, and Child Welfare. He has over 8 years experience reviewing statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) projects and providing technical assistance to States.
   
• Kathy Chase - Kathy, a Child Welfare Business Analyst Supervisor and SACWIS Manager with the Colorado Department of Human Services, has worked on and supported Colorado’s SACWIS system, Colorado Trails, for the past 5 years. Prior to her time at Trails, she worked for over 10 years in program and policy for both Child Welfare Services and the Division of Youth Corrections.
   
• Kelli Stone - Kelli is a Technical Analyst with ICF International, has worked on Child Welfare projects for over 20 years. She began her career as a case manager, investigating reports of Child Abuse and Neglect. She managed IT projects in GA that were designed to track Foster Children and their case plans. She has worked on statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) projects in Georgia, Florida, and most recently Tennessee.
   
• Di Graski - Di is a Court Technology Associate, National Center for State Courts. The National Center for State Courts is a new partner in the National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology, a service of the Children’s Bureau. Di Graski supports the new Family Services domain in the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM 2.1), the Court/Child Welfare National Exchange Template Task Force (NET), and NIEM Practical Implementers training.

 

NASCIO All States Call: State Collaboration and Information Sharing to Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse and Diversion

January 13, 2010

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Prescription drug abuse and diversion has become a problem of epidemic proportion. In 16 states, drug related deaths now exceed deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents; and an increasing number of those deaths are related to prescription drugs such as opioid analgesics (methadone, oxycodone, etc.). States are struggling to deal with the costs of prescription drug abuse and the law enforcement challenges with criminals who cross state lines on a regular basis to obtain drugs for abuse and diversion.

In response to the problem, 33 states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) and 7 more have enacted legislation to create a program in order to improve public health and safety. However states with programs can only track data on prescriptions dispensed within their state, which can severely limit the ability of health care providers and law enforcement to gather all the information that is needed for appropriate patient medical treatment and for thorough drug investigations.

NASCIO All States Innovations Forum on January 12th, 2010:
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET

The objective of this forum is to provide information on the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange (PMIX) project. The PMIX project is an exciting collaboration of participating states with support from federal agencies, to utilize technology and standards including the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) to implement a solution that will allow for efficient and cost effective sharing of PDMP data among states.

Opening remarks:

• Doug Robinson, NASCIO Executive Director, will be the host for this call.
• Donna Roy, Executive Director, National Information Exchange Model, Applied Technology, Office of the CIO, Department of Homeland Security

Speakers:

• Danna E. Droz, Prescription Monitoring Program Administrator for the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy with primary responsibility for the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS).
• David Hopkins, Program Manager for the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system.
• Scott Serich, Senior Project Manager leading the Project Management Center of Excellence at the IJIS Institute, Project Manager for the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)/IJIS Institute Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) Information Exchange (PMIX) Project.

The audio is approximately 66 minutes and includes questions submitted by registrants.

 

Data Governance - Central to Data Management Success

June 3, 2009

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Data governance has become a hot topic for state government. With the advent of consolidation, shared services, and the demand for greater transparency and civic engagement, data governance and data management become essential. This conference call provides an overview of the DAMA frameworks for data management with a focus on data governance. This call also presents an overview of the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK).

Speaker:

• Dr. Anne Marie Smith, Member of the DMBOK Editorial Review Board; Primary Contributor and Principal Consultant and Director of Education for EWSolutions, Inc.; Internationally recognized expert and speaker in the fields of enterprise information management, data modeling, meta data management and data warehousing, one of the top industry experts in data governance and information management strategy and planning; Editor-in-Chief, Real World Decision Support

State IT Governance – Perspectives from Utah and Minnesota

December 11, 2008

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The presenters will discuss the following topics:

• Discover what they are doing to establish effective governance of IT resources
• Learn what prompted them to focus on governance, where they are in their journey, and what’s next
• Learn what has been essential to their success, the challenges they had to overcome, the policies and process they’ve used to implement effective governance

This call is open to state CIOs and state member attendees. Please forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested.

Moderator:

• Doug Robinson, NASCIO Executive Director

Speakers:

• Steve Fletcher - Vice President, NASCIO, CIO for the State of Utah, Chair of the NASCIO Enterprise Architecture & Governance Committee
• John Lally - Director of Strategic Planning, the State CIO’s Office, State of Minnesota
   

State Fusion Centers – The Role of the State CIO

December 3, 2008

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Many states and larger cities have created state and local fusion centers to share information and intelligence within their jurisdictions as well as with the federal government.

This conference call provides an introduction to the subject of fusion centers and explores the issues and challenges related to successfully deploying a national network of these centers that share and analyze critical information. This conference call is a first step in building collaboration between the state CIO and state fusion center directors.

Speakers:
Mr. Thomas O'Reilly, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

Dr. G. Clark Smith, Executive for Programs and Technology, Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

Mr. Russ Porter, Director, Intelligence Fusion Center, Iowa Department of Public Safety

Mr. Robert Riegle, Director, State and Local Program Office, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Truth and Lies in Enterprise Security: A Conversation with Bruce Schneier

June 12, 2007

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Bruce Schneier is a well known expert and speaker. Mr. Schneier will discuss timely topics relating to today's security demands in state government. Topics will include mobile computing, enterprise risk management, and drafting an IT security strategic plan for state government.

Bruce Schneier writings on computer security and general security
In 2000, Schneier published Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. In 2003, Schneier published Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.

Schneier writes a freely available monthly Internet newsletter on computer and other security issues, Crypto-Gram, as well as a security weblog, Schneier on Security. Schneier is frequently quoted in the press on computer and other security issues, pointing out flaws in security and cryptographic implementations ranging from biometrics to airline security after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He has frequently quoted in the press including The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. He has made appearances on NPR and CNN, and has testified before the United States Congress.

"Bruce is the first person I call when I need to understand a hard security question." Elinor Abreu, Reuters

Making the Federal Reference Models Work: Developing Segment Architecture for Lines of Business

November 1, 2006

Presenters: Dick Burk, Chief Enterprise Architect, United States Office of Management and Budget and Keith Tucker, Enterprise Architect, United States Department of the Interior

SOA and Decision-Support Services for Government Operations

June 27, 2006

Presentation and audio available upon request. Contact esweden@amrms.com, or order the Archive CD.

The benefits of a Services-Oriented Architecture for non-transactional business functions. SOA as an innovation for moving into the future. Areas of focus will include SOA implications for:

• decision-support
• business intelligence
• data integration
• business analytics

The Value Add of a Spatially Enabled Service Oriented Architecture

June 20, 2006

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• GIS as an example of a shared service
• How SOA opens up the possibilities of sharing GIS capabilities.
• The process of identifying common services
• Logical steps to present enterprise shared services within their current GIS infrastructure
• How to integrate these shared services in other business processes and IT systems as they grow their SOA

Case Study: City of Philadelphia

SOA - Making It A Reality

June 13, 2006

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What is SOA from MicroSoft's perspective:

what are the patterns and anti-patterns
• MicroSoft's position regarding ESB
• Full support for open standards and specifications
• (2) or (3) case studies from state government.

Deploying SOA for Criminal Justice: Iowa & Colorado Case Studies

May 23, 2006

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Integration issues related to the exchange of criminal justice information.

• Enterprise Service Bus,
• Integrated Justice Information Exchange Standards
• Benefits of SOA.

(2) State Case Studies: Colorado and Iowa

Delivering Greater Government Flexibility with Service Oriented Architecture

May 16, 2006

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How Middleware enables Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA)

• Business integration
• Components based approach to application development
• Web Services
• What makes good services?
• Open Standards Middleware
• Lessons learned

Service Infrastructure: A Practical Approach to SOA for an Enterprise

May 9, 2006

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Service Infrastructure:

• Enterprise Service Bus,
• User Interaction technologies,
• Business Process Management,
• Data Integration and
• Security

Case Study - state of Wisconsin

SOA Adoption Model and SOA-Based Project Methodology: Emerging Best Practice for SOA Governance

May 2, 2006

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SOA encompasses a philosophy, discipline, and technology Organizational dimensions of SOA

• Roles and responsibilities
• Building centers of excellence
• How service contracts and SLAs are managed
• How an enterprise SOA roadmap is established

Collaborative Software Development For Government

August 18, 2005

Presented by Andy Stein, IT Director, City of Newport News, VA

Sharing Justice Information: A Capability Assessment Toolkit

March 1, 2005

Presenter: Anthony M. Cresswell, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany-SUNY

Enterprise Architecture Repositories Federal Initiatives

February 15, 2005

Presenter: Mr. Marion Royal, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Government Wide Policy,
U.S. General Services Administration

Enterprise Repositories - CORE.gov

February 1, 2005

Introducing CORE.GOV: The FEA’sComponent Center
Presented by U.S. General Services Administration

Enterprise Architecture at Kansas Department of Transportation & the State of Kansas

January 25, 2005

Presenter: Bill Roth, Chief Information Technology Architect, Kansas

Business Enterprise Architecture Modeling

January 1, 2005

Presenter: Ken Orr, The Ken Orr Institute