Medical supplies top list of COVID response concerns at Congressional hearing
Medical supplies top list of COVID response concerns at Congressional hearing
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A shortage in the Strategic National Stockpile even before the pandemic and the failed efforts of multiple agencies to coordinate access to personal protective equipment endangered the lives of healthcare workers and weakened the efficacy of American hospitals, lawmakers and experts testifying before a Senate committee Wednesday said. Despite years of warning about the dangers of our nations over reliance on foreign sources and manufacturers for medical supplies our nation was still unprepared to treat a significant number of covid patients, stop the spread of the virus, and save lives, said Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) in his opening remarks.
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SPRINGFIELD Both parties agreed Friday that the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak that left 36 residents dead at the LaSalle Veterans Home was a mess but they disagreed sharply on who was to blame.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration again pointed at former state Veterans Affairs Director Linda Chapa LaVia, contending she misled them into thinking she was adequately addressing the problems.
But Republicans lay the blame squarely at the feet of the Democratic governor, arguing the failure to take swift action as the crisis unfolded and the attempts to pass the buck indicated “a failure of leadership” at the top.
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This Nextgov ebook examines how agencies employ automation and other variants of artificial intelligence software to improve service delivery and mission outcomes.
The federal government is using robotic process automation and other variants of the artificial intelligence software across agencies, improving service delivery and mission outcomes while saving countless thousands of employee hours. A relatively new technology, automation software generally performs business processes normally undertaken by humans, such as scanning records. Yet agencies are employing the nascent technology in numerous ways.
The National Science Foundation, for example, has automated software to perform functions regarding thousands of meetings it organizes each year. A single bot or automated software is saving the NSF staff 25,000 hours per year, according to its chief information officer. Other agencies, including the IRS and Nationa
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