Tuesday, March 25, 2003

National Palm Alert System Last Friday, I was in a meeting with IT people from the Department of Health.  One had the latest gadget, a Palm Tungsten PDA, and was explaining the interest they had in developing applications using that platform.  This morning, I learned of HHS' plans to deploy a bioterrorism alert system, transmitting messages to palms used by doctors, administrators and other health care professionals.  This system will augment the CDC's Health Alert Network.  Yesterday, in a meeting of InterOp Utah, we discussed the interest of the public health community in the State's wireless WAN project that will provide access throughout the state.  Not only are they very interested, but they have funding available to support the wireless interoperability strategy. By the way, CDC's EOC was activated following the outbreak of SARS two weeks ago. Utah SARS Info 8:51:22 AM    comment []

Governor Vetoes Four Bills Governor Leavitt vetoed four bills yesterday in a lesson of checks and balances in state government.  The bills were: HB 105  Government Internet Information Privacy Act, this bill added a lot of privacy and administrative requirements to government websites.  For example, an online service would be required to inform the user how to perform the same service offline.  If passed we would have needed to spend time in the Product Management Council to address these issues.  HB 168  Filling Midterm Vacancies in the Legislature, gives the Governor's authority to appoint midterm vacancies in the legislature to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate - that would allow them to perpetuate and strengthen their power base when vacancies occur SB 66  Alcoholic Beverage Enforcement, would allow beer tax to go to DUI enforcement - needs technical corrections during a special session SB 251  Firearms Revisions, I guess this creates some legal issues with burden of proof. The stage was also set for a special session in June.  We had a record six special sessions last year and I don't think anyone wants to repeat that again. 7:44:58 AM    comment []

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