The Center for Digital Government in conjunction with the National Association of Counties recently announced their top digital counties. Hennepin County came in second for cities with population of more than 500,000. Here are the items they outline in the article…

Survey questions were asked in a variety of areas such as computing, networking, applications, data and cybersecurity, open government, mobile services, and much more. The survey results reflect work done during the 2012 year.

The article doesn’t provide a lot of detail, but last year Gov Tech publications wrote about some of the progress in the health care area. They reported at the end of 2012 that Hennepin County reduced Medicaid costs by 40 percent to 90 percent for its most expensive participants through a pilot program called Hennepin Health.