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. [...]
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 Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce will host a GovConNet series event Thursday focusing on digitizing health records and other business opportunities the new healthcare law will bring area businesses. Barbara Ashe, the chamber’s executive vice presidents, said, “The program is designed to help businesses understand what the opportunities are and what role they can [...]
Healthcare reform may still be up in the air, but this much is certain: Health information technology will be the foundational element in any reform effort — and contractors will play an important role. That was made clear this past year by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and accompanying HITECH Act. From electronic health [...]
Present: Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton Career history: Backed by 20-plus years of strategy development and technology delivery experience, Penfield specializes in the management and strategic use of information technology within the global, US federal, and commercial health industry. Personal: Penfield is an avid Italian cook. “I’m Italian, even though my last name doesn’t [...]
