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DGS Office of Legal Services on Strategic Planning 2016 - Duration: 3:35.
Good afternoon everyone my name is Henry Nanjo and I'm the Deputy Director Acting
Deputy Director and Chief Legal Counsel for the Department of General Services.
The Office of Legal Services is the office of attorneys for the department
and we also have the role of approving personal services contracts for most
other state agencieas. Personal services contracts are those contracts where the
contractor provides a duty or labor as opposed to commodities or goods. Unless a
state agency is exempt, most personal services contracts are not valid unless
the Office of Legal Services or all s approves it. We ensure that the personal
services contracts meet the requirements of the state law and also the state
contracting manual. If a contract has issues, those issues must be corrected
before we can approve it and what results is a contract is returned to the
agency and then the agency is charged for the office of legal services to
re-review that contract. This results in more time before services under those
contracts can be delivered, and it results in more costs for the agency and
additional review time by OLS attorneys, so along those veins to remedy that, our
first goal is to develop targeted training modules to address common
contracting issues and the reasons for contract rejection. We will be working
with the DGS office of strategic planning policy and research to review
all OLS data, on the reasons that contracts are returned and identified those common
issues and problems for various state agencies and divisions. The OLS team will
then identify those issues and develop specified targeted training modules that
we can provide to those agencies and divisions to alleviate those problems.
Finally, the OLS team will reach out and have discussions with those agencies and
units to both offer the training and kind
give them an understanding of common problems that we've come across that
results in those contracts to be resubmitted. Our second goal is to
establish a robust training program and tracking database to document and
protect the states states created intellectual property. After a Bureau of
state audits report legislation was passed last year that charged DGS Office
of Legal Services with assisting state agencies to assist them in managing and
protecting the state's IP or intellectual property. Many of us have
probably read about how the National Park Service had to change the names of
various iconic locations at Yosemite National Park because they inadvertently
let the concessionaire trademark and get the intellectual property rights to
those landmarks. Things like the Awanee hotel Curry Village, so in order to
prevent anything like that from happening to state agencies we will be
working with an advisory group of key stakeholders and we've already started
meeting to determine training subjects to kind of come up with elements of a
database and also materials and the best way to get the word out to state
agencies so they can protect the state's intellectual property. Those are the two
goals that we will be focusing on at the Office of Legal Services this year.
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Overview of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force - Duration: 2:02.
- [Narrator] Every time a primary care clinician
sees a patient, it's an opportunity
to prevent disease and promote good health.
The range of available preventive services is extensive,
and new evidence about what works
continually comes to light.
How does a primary care clinician
know the best preventive opportunities
for each and every patient?
To address this challenge, more than 30 years ago,
an independent, volunteer panel was created.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force.
The Task Force reviews all the research
on specific preventive services
and provides evidence-based recommendations.
Each member of the Task Force is a nationally-recognized
expert in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine.
Most are practicing primary care clinicians.
The preventive services they evaluate include screenings,
behavioral counseling, and preventive medications,
ways that can help prevent disease
before there are any obvious signs or symptoms.
Before a final recommendation is made, materials are opened
to scientific review and public comment.
Then, after all input is considered,
a final recommendation is published.sidered,
a final recommendation is published.
If there isn't enough evidence to make a recommendation,
the Task Force calls for more research, and each year,
reports to Congress on priority research gaps.
Every Task Force recommendation becomes a valuable
evidence-based tool that primary care clinicians
can depend on.
With the help of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force,
primary care clinicians, their patients, and their families
have the knowledge they need to help prevent disease
and promote good health.
For more information,
visit uspreventive servicestaskforce.org
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