November 30, 2018
Virginia’s ‘Model’ Opioid Data-Sharing Platform Nearly Ready
As the epidemic’s death toll rises, the state is working to get more information into the hands of regional substance abuse coalitions to mitigate deaths and other negative impacts. The …
October 12, 2018
Virginia Prepares Opioid Data-Sharing and Analysis Platform
Virginia has awarded Qlarion, a data and analytics firm that specializes in government innovation, a contract to create a data-sharing and analysis platform to help manage the state’s growing opioid …
September 27, 2018
COVITS 2018 – Virginia’s Path Toward Innovation
COVITS 2018 was held at the Richmond Convention Center on September 5-6, and the Qlarion team was pleased to be a sponsor of this year’s event. COVITS featured an impressive …
September 19, 2018
Commonwealth Fights Opioid Crisis by Awarding Qlarion a Contract to Develop Analytics Platform
Commonwealth Fights Opioid Crisis by Awarding Qlarion a Contract to Develop Analytics Platform Qlarion to coordinate effort with Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice …
September 4, 2018
Your Fancy New Analytics Platform Doesn’t Matter If No One Uses It
Data analytics has the potential to revolutionize the services state and local governments provide to their citizens, with some agency representatives calling it “the most disruptive thing that we have going …
August 16, 2018
4 Steps to Excellence in Data Analytics
Data management and analysis are cornerstones of the 2018 President’s Management Agenda (PMA), which calls “full utilization of four cross-cutting drivers of change”: policy, people, process and platform. Unfortunately, data analytics efforts …
July 5, 2018
Filling open data’s empty ‘Field of Dreams’
Nine years after the government introduced Data.gov, the promise of open data remains an open question for federal agencies. While data transparency has worked well and provided citizens with easier …
June 29, 2018
Qlarion’s Virginia Data Revolution Kicks Off with a Focus on the State’s New Open Data Initiatives
Data lies at the heart of Virginia’s ongoing technology revolution. The state collects an enormous amount of information from various state agencies. This data presents a wealth of civic and …
June 14, 2018
Qlarion CEO Jake Bittner on Government Matters
Jake Bittner, CEO of Qlarion and Sonny Kakar, founder & CEO of Sevatec, join Government Matters host Francis Rose to discuss the Federal Data Strategy and how data can help both …
May 15, 2018
Q&A With Tony Fung, Former Deputy Secretary of Technology, Office of the Governor, Virginia
Tony Fung is the CEO of GovInsight and the former Deputy Secretary of Technology, Office of the Governor, Virginia under the McAuliffe administration. What is GovInsight and what types of …
April 12, 2018
Qlarion Retains Anthony Fung as Strategic Advisor; Sets Course for Future Growth
Qlarion, a big data and analytics firm that specializes in government innovation, today announced that Anthony Fung has engaged with the company as a strategic advisor. Currently CEO of GovInsight, a boutique …
March 12, 2018
Design Thinking, Lean Startup Methods Can Unleash Agency Innovation
Federal agencies seeking to modernize are often faced with two all-too-familiar dilemmas. Legacy procurement practices, designed specifically for the acquisition of tools, all too often work against their modernization efforts, …
