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About Washington
Washington (ˈwɒʃɪŋtən) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The state is named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. It is the only U.S. state named after a president.
Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. In 2006, the Census Bureau estimated the state's population at 6,395,798. Residents are called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, pronounced as tone). Washington is sometimes called Washington state or The state of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital. -
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“ We've turned around a public school system that was once a poster child for dysfunction into one that is Washington now hails as a national model. ”
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“ The old model was that a project would only be cancelled if it became a headline in the New York Times or Washington Post. ”
Vivek Kundra in Federal IT Dashboard Boosts Accountability
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Washington Trust Bank Goes Mobile With VDI Using VMware View, Wyse, and ...
Explore MarketWatch (May 22 2012)
...l Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced that Washington Trust Bank, the largest independently owned full-service commercial bank in the Northwest, has depl... (Read Full Article)
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Dell targets banks in New York solution centre
Explore Finextra Research (May 11 2012)
.... The other Dell solution centers are located in Limerick, Ireland; Shanghai, China; Austin, Texas; Washington, DC (Herndon, VA); Singapore; Chicago, Illinois (Buffalo Grove); Tokyo, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; ...
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Health IT Now Coalition Encourages CMS, ONC to Strengthen Meaningful Use Standards
Explore businesswire.com (May 8 2012)
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Health IT Now Coalition encourages CMS, ONC to strengthen Meaningful Use stan... (Read Full Article)
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Federal CIO Touts Shared Services Model
Explore InformationWeek (May 7 2012)
...ent, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel said at InformationWeek's Government IT Leadership Forum May 3 in Washington, D.C. Agencies must adjust to the difference by eliminating duplication and waste from their IT ope...
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U.S. CIO Pitches Service-driven Federal IT
... * * * By Kenneth Corbin, CIO | IT Management/Strategy Add a new comment April 03, 2012, 2:43 PM — WASHINGTON -- Much like their counterparts in the private sector, federal CIOs are feeling a budget squeeze a... (Read Full Article)
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IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S.
...u, Computerworld | IT Management/Strategy, outsourcing Add a new comment March 29, 2012, 9:20 PM — WASHINGTON - U.S. officials Thursday said that offshoring will hurt the growth of programming jobs in in this ... (Read Full Article)
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White House CIO's first 40 days included 'worst day' ever
...ome, "in a secure and records managed way," said Colangelo. The mobility effort paid dividends when Washington was shut down for nearly a week in Feb. 2010 by two back-to-back blizzards that dumped several feet... (Read Full Article)
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New ANSI Report Calls For Enhanced Security To Safeguard Protected Health Information
Explore Dark Reading (Mar 9 2012)
... to present the report and its findings. The first event will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, at 10:00 a.m. ET. White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard A. Schmidt has been invited to ... (Read Full Article)
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First look at the next stage of meaningful use
Explore American Medical Association (Mar 5 2012)
...ednews staff. Posted March 5, 2012. * PRINT| * E-MAIL| * RESPOND| * REPRINTS| * Share SHARE Share * Washington -- Earning bonuses and avoiding payment cuts during stage 2 of the multibillion-dollar federal elec... (Read Full Article)
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Health IT adoption rising, thanks to HITECH Act and despite politics
Explore searchhealthit.techtarget.com (Feb 20 2012)
...ch focus from policymakers. Policymakers will say 'Oh no, no, no, we care about them' but nobody in Washington is being graded by what happens in terms of EHR adoption in nursing homes," Jha said. "And they're ... (Read Full Article)
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With Government Providing Incentives for Widespread Adoption of Health Information Technology, Survey Finds that ...
Explore PR Newswire (Feb 15 2012)
... Meaningful: How Consumers Value and Trust Health IT" Is Unprecedented Consumer Survey on Health IT WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As more and more consumers see their doctors using electr... (Read Full Article)
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Bipartisan center calls for increased HIE efforts, alignment of healthcare ...
Explore fiercehealthit.com (Jan 27 2012)
...ifferent than they were 25 years ago," Frist said at a BPC event unveiling the report's findings in Washington, D.C., this morning. "They're just much worse now." Overall, six barriers to implementing health IT... (Read Full Article)
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Obama wants less offshoring, as vendors see U.S. shift
...ck Thibodeau, Computerworld | IT Management/Strategy Add a new comment January 19, 2012, 7:43 AM — WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is trying to encourage U.S. companies not to send work overseas . This mi... (Read Full Article)
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Cerner, McKesson, athenahealth: CMS issuance of Stage 2 meaningful use rules ...
Explore Financial Times (Jan 4 2012)
...icular have aggressively marketed their HIT platforms, said Joseph Lynch, partner, King & Spalding, Washington, DC, since the 2009 stimulus law included more than USD 35bn in incentives for healthcare organizat... (Read Full Article)
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Mobile, Software Developers Lead IT Staffing Priorities: Dice
Explore eweek.com (Jan 4 2012)
...he New York/New Jersey metro area topped the list of number of jobs posted by zip code, followed by Washington DC/Baltimore, Silicon Valley and Chicago. Los Angeles rounded out the top five. (Read Full Article)
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