Healthcare IT

    DLH Corp. has won a $5 million contract to support healthcare operations at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth,Va. The Atlanta, Ga.-based firm said Tuesday it will provide integrative and comprehensive care to medical home port patients at the NMCP complex and at the center’s Oceana and Virginia …

Six companies have issued a joint statement at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference to address barriers to the use of technology platforms that work to facilitate health care interoperability. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and Amazon have vowed to work together to “unlock the potential in health care data, …

Maximus has received a $17 million base contract from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to provide managed care enrollment broker services for the state’s Medicaid program. The company said Tuesday it will enroll, assist, educate and counsel eligible beneficiaries via phone, in-person interaction or online technology …

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has partnered with the U.S Navy to facilitate a pilot program that aims to increase service members’ access to medical services. APL said Thursday it will integrate systems, assess tools and analyzes data in an effort to update healthcare delivery models for active-duty servicemen in Pensacola, …

CGI has received a potential seven-year, $281 million contract to update, maintain and operate a technology platform used to process payroll and case management data for home care services providers across the state of California. The company said Tuesday it will integrate new tools into the Case Management Information and Payrolling System built …

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working on ways to boost its capabilities when it comes to disaster response. Jeffrey Freeman, APL research scientist, said in a statement Tuesday they are looking into creating an intelligent and autonomous system that allows context-dependent situational awareness for disaster and emergency response and …

The Defense Department plans to increase the ceiling amount of a potential 10-year, $4.3 billion contract to update and deploy a new electronic health records platform by approximately $1.1 billion, Nextgov reported Tuesday. An industry team composed of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won the MHS Genesis EHR contract in July 2015. …

Optum’s federal government health services business has renewed two of its federal health contracts with a total value of $58.7 million to extend its services to 9/11 first responders and the military. The health services provider said Tuesday OptumServe’s Logistics Health subsidiary will participate in the World Trade Center Health …

Maximus has landed a potential seven-year, $11.7 million contract from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to educate eligible Medicaid beneficiaries about health coverage options. The company said Tuesday it will serve as the state’s Medicaid enrollment broker and provide call center services to counsel and help members enroll with health maintenance organizations. “We …

The Department of Veterans Affairs has extended a partnership with IBM to identify treatment options for military veterans with cancer through the use of artificial intelligence technology. IBM said Thursday VA oncologists have used the company’s Watson for Genomics system to support precision oncology care programs under a public-private initiative formed in 2016. “It is incredibly …

Leidos has landed the ninth spot on Healthcare Informatics magazine’s list of the top 100 U.S. companies that have recorded the highest sales from healthcare information technology products and services in the previous year. The company said Monday it has ranked among the top 10 vendors on the annual Healthcare Informatics 100 …

Ginkgo Bioworks has secured a position on a potential 10-year Defense Department omnibus contract worth up to $8.3 billion for chemical and biosecurity projects. The company said Wednesday it will develop and deploy biosecurity tools as the only synthetic biology firm on the Joint Enterprise Research, Development, Acquisition and Production/Procurement …

Booz Allen Hamilton has developed a platform to help the Food and Drug Administration‘s Office of Translational Sciences explore healthcare blockchain technology, GCN reported Friday. The platform is built on the InterPlanetary File System for encryption and reduced data duplication purposes, and uses Ethereum for data access management on private networks, the …

Cambridge International Systems has begun offering information technology services to support the Navy and Joint Military Medical Community of Interest by modernizing healthcare for U.S. warfighters and their families. The Arlington, Va.-based firm said Tuesday it’s helping the Navy and Joint Medicine MEDCOI adopt new technologies such as information exchange and big …

The Defense Health Agency seeks information on the availability of tools, services and marketplace data for an upcoming project to centralize the Military Health System‘s care delivery approach. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the DHA is exploring virtual video, image sharing, warfighter support, specialty care, integration and training service offerings that can help transform …