West Virginia's Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Information System Named Finalist for National Award
03 März 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory
Council (ACT-IAC) has selected the West Virginia Division of
Justice and Community Services Sexual Assault Evidence Collection
Kit Information System as a finalist for the 2017 Igniting
Innovation Showcase to be held on March 14, 2017 at the Ronald
Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
The ACT-IAC’s Institute for Innovation seeks nominations to
recognize highly innovative IT products, services, systems, and
solutions that benefit government (federal, state, local, and
tribal) and citizens. The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit
Information System was selected as one of 30 finalists out of 120
submissions to compete for the top award.
The Igniting Innovation Award is given to the best overall
innovation as determined by social media voting by the audience at
the event. Dynamite Awards are given by a panel of roving judges at
the Showcase event. The judges will meet with each of the finalists
during the event and select the innovation that best fits each of
the following categories: Impactor, Game Changer, Transformer, and
Incubator.
The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Information System
enables the tracking of sexual assault kits from the time they are
shipped to a healthcare facility to when they are collected and
returned for forensic testing. Additionally, the system collects
invaluable feedback on the quality of the collected kits that will
be used to identify potential areas of improvement and training
opportunities to ultimately improve evidence collection. The
combination of these two features into a centralized, web-based
solution that provides a single point of entry for all stakeholders
results in a major process innovation for the tracking and
evaluation of sexual assault kits. Visit
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/west-virginia-aims-eliminate-untested-170000579.html
for more information about the system.
"We are very honored that our system was selected by the ACT-IAC
as a finalist for the 2017 Igniting Innovation Showcase,” said Rick
Staton, Director of the Division of Justice and Community Services.
“The system provides a major breakthrough to the longstanding
problem of lost and untested sexual assault kits which is a problem
faced by many states, and not unique to West Virginia."
For more information about ACT-IAC and the 2017 Igniting
Innovation Showcase, visit
https://www.actiac.org/events/igniting-innovation-2017?detail=324096.
The online system was developed by the West Virginia Division of
Justice and Community Services and the West Virginia State Police
Forensic Laboratory in partnership with WV.gov. Guidance and
recommendations were also provided by the West Virginia Sexual
Assault Forensic Examination Commission, the West Virginia
Foundation for Rape Information and Services, and the West Virginia
Hospital Association.
The Division of Justice and Community Services is part of the
Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety. For more
information about the West Virginia Division of Justice and
Community Services, visit http://www.djcs.wv.gov.
About WV.gov
WV.gov is the official website of the state of West Virginia
(http://www.wv.gov) and is the result of an innovative
public-private partnership between the state and West Virginia
Interactive. West Virginia Interactive works with state and local
government agencies to build and manage interactive online services
and is a subsidiary of digital government firm NIC (NASDAQ:
EGOV).
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is celebrating 25 years
as the nation’s premier provider of innovative digital government
solutions and secure payment processing, which help make government
interactions more accessible for everyone through technology. The
family of NIC companies has developed a library of more than 12,000
digital government services for more than 4,500 federal, state, and
local government agencies. Among these solutions is the
ground-breaking digital government personal assistant, Gov2Go,
delivering citizens personalized reminders and a single access
point for government interactions. More information is available at
www.egov.com.
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