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 [...]
A recent Wall Street Journal report found that as the healthcare industry evolves amidst new pressures, traditional roles provided by care providers, insurers and other industry participants are beginning to overlap and blur. Anna Mathews writes that while Americans are demanding better care, the recent economic downturn has accelerated providers’ need to be efficient and cut costs. [...]
The Johns Hopkins University medical unit that oversees patient safety and quality has announced it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin to attempt to improve how electronic systems work together in intensive care units. Peter Pronovost, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, said the organizations will work to streamline complex systems whose current incompatibilities can put lives [...]
Booz Allen Hamilton will help improve enterprise system support processes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a three-year, $43 million task order announced Thursday. As a single vendor, CDC awarded Booz Allen the CIMS vehicle’s information systems lot. Booz Allen Senior Vice President Susan Penfield told ExecutiveBiz the company will support CDC’s full [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a three-year contract worth $43 million to help improve CDC’s enterprise system support processes, the company announced today. Booz Allen said it will help establish a new process to measure project cost and schedule estimates and build on those findings to drive improvements. Booz Allen [...]
The TRICARE Management Activity is looking to develop a joint electronic pharmacy system for federal departments including Defense and Veterans Affairs. The activity recently issued a request for information to help its search for a single solution capable of tracking prescription and medication orders, as well as identifying possible drug interactions. TRICARE manages the Military Health Systems‘ information technology [...]
