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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Department of Health and Human Services has chosen three winning submissions to a prize competition that sought applications designed to utilize Certified Health IT Product List application programming interfaces or XML files. CHPL Data Challenge winners demonstrated how industry could use and apply CHPL data about health information technology systems and approved health IT platforms, HHS said […] More
Karen Shields, vice president of health services at Serco‘s North American arm, has been selected for the FedHealthIT 100 list of prominent individuals in the federal health information technology industry. She oversees Serco Inc.‘s business processing, consulting and operational service offerings for federal, state and local government health care programs, the company said Wednesday. Shields joined the Herndon, […] More
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