CNSI announced on Tuesday that Kelly Loeffler has joined the company as the vice president of deals, strategy & capture. Loeffler will be responsible for developing and executing the company“™s growth strategy and identifying, developing and evaluating partnership and investment opportunities.

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CNSI announced on Thursday that Melissa Fannin has joined the company as the senior vice president of Federal Business Development.

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Don Shanks, former senior capture executive at ASRC Federal, has joined technology services contractor NTT Data as a senior director, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Robert Wilkie, secretary of Veterans Affairs, was inducted into the 2019 Wash100 “” Executive Mosaic“™s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena “” for his achievements in modernizing the VA electronic health care system. This honor marks the first Wash100 Award win for Wilkie.

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The UnitedHealth Group plans to create 1,495 employment opportunities in Texas, including 330 jobs at a new fulfillment facility in Sugarland in the next 18 months. The OptumRx pharmacy benefits management office will start operations later this year, with recruitment in the fourth quarter to target claim processers, pharmacists, trainers, and workforce and quality managers, […] More

IBM officials hope Watson, one of its artificial intelligence computer systems, can be used for medical applications including storage of patient data and finding information in medical journals, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. According to writer Jackie Crosby, Watson contains 16 terabytes of memory — twice the Library of Congress — and can read 200 million […] More

A new report says many hospitals are making progress in adopting electronic medical records but many have not seen the provider connectivity necessary to collaborate. An article on Xerox Corp.’s website features research by Harris Interactive for Optum Institute that questioned 301 hospital chief information officers on EMR systems and practices. Researchers found 87 percent of […] More