Maximus has won a potential $43.2 million contract to provide enrollment and accounting services for Ontario’s drug benefit program, Maximus announced Wednesday. The contract with Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has three base years and seven one-year options. Maximus will process applications, notifications, renewals and receipts for the program which covers nearly 3 million Ontario [...]
The National Institutes of Health is seeking industry input as NIH plans a new governmentwide health information technology contract. According to a post on FedBizOpps, NIH said the Chief Information Officer – NEW contract would be a follow up to the Electronic Commodity Store II contract. NIH plans for the CIO-NEW contract to complement the [...]
Intel Corp. and the United Nations Population Fund have unveiled a joint effort to educate 1 million healthcare workers worldwide through technology. The UN said on Monday the initiative aims to use software and technical assistance to reduce the number of deaths related to childbirth. The UN said Intel will work with governments to increase [...]
HP Enterprise Services will assist Blue Shield of California deliver new services and more affordable healthcare under a five-year contract, HP announced Tuesday. HP indicated it will build on its 43-year relationship with Blue Shield by continuing to provide technology infrastructure and applications support to the health insurance organization. “Healthcare reform and rising costs are [...]
SRA International Inc. has won a contract to support health data banks for the Health Resources and Services Administration, SRA announced Tuesday. SRA said the contract is worth $78.5 million over five years if all options are exercised. The company said it will provide full life-cycle system and software development to the National Practitioner Data [...]
In-Q-Tel has entered a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Quanterix Corp., In-Q-Tel announced Friday. In-Q-Tel said its investment will allow Quanterix to advance its Single Molecule Array technology. Quanterix said it wants to expand SiMoA to simultaneously measure proteins and nucleic acids in order to detect pathogens, the company said. “The Quanterix SiMoA platform offers great promise for [...]
The state of Iowa has selected ACS Inc., a Xerox subsidiary, to help the state implement a health information exchange system, ACS announced Thursday. ACS said the Iowa Health Information Network is intended to allow doctors and other health care industry personnel to electronically transfer and store medical information. According to Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, director [...]
