Insurance department data showed PA requests declined slightly from 2025 to 2026 while denials rose and provider appeals and reversals increased; the department expects electronic PA submission (01/01/2027) to streamline the process.

OPC presented a detailed alternative regulatory framework calling for system-wide screening, asset classification and project-level evaluation to create an implementation runway for non-pipeline alternatives and standardized reporting to allow third-party verification.

The Technology Services Board approved three enterprise service standards—managed addressing, geospatial portal services and an enterprise data platform—citing improved accuracy, shared governance and reduced duplication across state agencies.

Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets can work together) is still largely manual. This post shows how AI-powered metadata correction works in practice, covering two approaches, human-in-the-loop validation and autonomous agent-driven workflows, plus governance considerations for production deployment.

Senators advanced SB 1423 to direct the governor's office to compile and publish a standardized statewide set of spatial datasets by 2028; supporters said it will aid local planning while opponents from the building industry warned the chosen datasets could be misapplied against housing projects.

Members asked staff to standardize data collection for the 2027 compensation review, including requesting consistent employee counts and department structures from constitutional offices and focusing comparables on similar states.

DCYF staff presented proposed workforce definitions to standardize analysis across MERIT, ELMS and other systems, described technical limitations, and introduced separate definitions for 'big‑picture' workforce counts and qualification‑focused datasets as well as an FFN category for family, friend, neighbor providers.

County GIS director Kevin Trapp briefed the board on NextGen 9‑1‑1: about 88% of calls are wireless, GIS data must be standardized for routing (roughly 20,000 address points and 10,000 road segments), the county submitted data to the state on March 5, and a June 22, 2025 satellite text‑to‑911 case highlighted operational benefits.

At a September Health IT Data Governance Work Group meeting, Corey Smith of the Gravity Project described standards for social determinants of health (SDOH) data. COSHI staff said they are aligning FHIR components and assessments to Gravity standards; participants discussed mapping nonstandard assessments, implementation tiers and barriers faced by

Getting dozens of ad agency partners around the world to work together is like herding cats – but Colgate-Palmolive was able to do it.

Snowflake Inc. and a group of partners today launched the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, an open-source effort to standardize how organizations define and share business semantics across data and...