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Outpatient Books Air Force Phase II SBIR Contract for Digital Health Tool; Brian Corey Quoted

Outpatient has secured a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force to further develop an application meant to facilitate medical readiness coordination between medical personnel, commanding officers, active duty airmen and other service members to speed up deployment processes. Outpatient App is intended to support medical staff task coordination and […] More

by Jane Edwards December 13, 2021, 11:46 am
in Contract Awards, Healthcare IT, News

ICF Books CDC Task Orders for Data Management, Health Surveillance & Comms Services; Mark Lee Quoted

ICF has secured $35 million in three recompete contracts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide its health initiatives with digital transformation, data management, health surveillance as well as technical assistance and communications services. The company said Thursday it has received a $15 million task order for centralization and modernization of two […] More

by Christine Thropp October 22, 2021, 11:43 am
in Contract Awards, Healthcare IT, News

PointClickCare to Provide CDC With De-Identified Patient Data to Help Combat Health Threats

PointClickCare has received a government contract that requires it to provide data that will help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examine COVID-19 and other health issues affecting individuals residing in long-term care facilities. The company said Tuesday its Lighthouse initiative will contribute de-identified patient data that CDC will use to analyze disease patterns, […] More

by Nichols Martin October 14, 2021, 11:35 am
in Healthcare IT, News

Cognosante, Partners Launch New Consortium to Advance Health Info Exchange Delivery; Erick Peters Quoted

Cognosante has helped establish a new consortium focused on delivering Health Information Exchange as a managed service to support health care improvement efforts. The company said Wednesday it is one of the founding members of Collabrity Health, an alliance of HIEs and health care vendor partners that seek to share among consortium members interoperability resources, […] More

by Christine Thropp October 1, 2021, 11:51 am
in Contract Awards, Healthcare IT, News

Octo to Provide CMS With Agile Coaching for Medicare Payment Modernization Effort

Octo Consulting will support the Medicare Payment System Modernization effort of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under a five-year contract. The Virginia-based technology firm said Tuesday it will educate CMS employees and contractors about building Agile processes across the MPSM program and the Medicare Fee-For-Service system. Octo […] More

by Angeline Leishman September 15, 2021, 11:41 am
in Healthcare IT, News

VA Uses Nuance-Made Speech Platform to Document Patient Care

The Department of Veterans Affairs has adopted Nuance Communications‘ speech recognition platform and microphone application to document patient care activities. The company said Wednesday VA now uses the Nuance Dragon Medical One platform, following the product’s approval under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and receipt of authority to operate from the department. Physicians […] More

by Nichols Martin September 9, 2021, 11:31 am
in GovCon Expert, Healthcare IT, News

Large Contractors Seek Federal Health IT Market Share Via Acquisitions; GovCon Expert Jerry McGinn Quoted

Booz Allen Hamilton, Science Applications International Corp., Peraton and other large technology contractors are hoping to get a share of the federal health information technology market by acquiring health software and IT companies, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “The size of the deals in health care in the public sector are very large and […] More

by Jane Edwards August 30, 2021, 11:48 am
in Healthcare IT, News

DARPA Announces Proposers Day for ‘Assessing Immune Memory’ Program Solicitation

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a virtual proposers day on Aug. 27 to discuss the broad agency announcement for the Assessing Immune Memory Program. DARPA officials will talk about the development initiative for a tool planned to examine the immune memory responses of military service members to vaccination, a notice on SAM.gov […] More

by Angeline Leishman August 16, 2021, 11:30 am
in Healthcare IT, News

ManTech’s Srini Iyer on Federal Health IT Modernization

Srini Iyer, a senior vice president, chief technology officer and head of the innovation and capabilities office at ManTech International, said federal health agencies should take the right steps to health information technology transformation and one of the efforts industry could do to help agencies in their IT modernization journey is to explore new and […] More

by Jane Edwards August 11, 2021, 11:50 am
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in Government Technology, Healthcare IT, News

Battelle, IARPA Team Up to Create Monitoring System for Tracking Epidemic-Related Behaviors

Battelle, a nonprofit global research and development organization, has entered into an agreement with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a predictive technology intended for monitoring epidemic-related threats. The researchers are set to incorporate the TechAware Search Continuous Automated Scanning for Technology Transformation methodology into an application after completing the project’s pilot phase, […] More

by Carol Collins July 28, 2021, 11:45 am
in Healthcare IT, News

LMI's Pat Tamburrino on Clinician Satisfaction, How to Make Health IT Enable Workforce

Pat Tamburrino, vice president of health markets at LMI, told Government Matters in a video interview aired Thursday about the need to increase satisfaction among clinicians and its addition as another piece to the “triple aim“ in the health care field. He said the “triple aim“ consists of three pieces and those are to improve […] More

by Jane Edwards January 2, 2019, 1:27 am
in General News, Featured, General, Healthcare IT, News

Perspecta Awarded CDC Public Health Data Analysis Support IDIQ; Mac Curtis Quoted

Perspecta has secured a potential five-year, $40M contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention address public health threats with the use of spatial data analysis and communication tools. The company said Tuesday it will combine geospatial statistics, epidemiology and environmental models with information technology methods in efforts to analyze location and health data […] More

by Matthew Nelson December 12, 2018, 2:34 am