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  • Noblis, DoD Scientists Use BioVelocity in Ebola Diagnostics Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis, DoD Scientists Use BioVelocity in Ebola Diagnostics Research

    A team of Noblis and government scientists have reported 10 new genomic signatures of the Ebola virus in a paper published in the Viruses journal, which the nonprofit organization says could indicate potential shortcomings in current diagnostic techniques. Noblis said Thursday it collaborated with the Defense Department‘s Medical Countermeasure Systems organization and used the organization’s BioVelocity tool to help identify genomic signatures […] More

  • CAE Offers Tablet-Operated Software to Control Patient Simulator; Robert Amyot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Offers Tablet-Operated Software to Control Patient Simulator; Robert Amyot Comments

    CAE‘s healthcare business has unveiled its new tablet-operated software for controlling the METIman patient simulator’s physiology and responses to treatment during patient care training. The company said Tuesday Vivo provides facilitators full manual control of the patient simulator and enables alternative physiological models for training sessions. “We developed Vïvo for today’s healthcare learning environment, which is fast-paced, rapidly changing and […] More

  • Army Posts Commercial Mobile Healthcare Tech RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Posts Commercial Mobile Healthcare Tech RFI

    The U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is looking into commercial software and related service offerings to supplement the military branch’s mobile health information technology infrastructure. In a request for information published June 9 on FedBizOpps, the Army said its Mobile Health Care Environment System is designed to employ government and commercial off-the-shelf […] More

  • CACI to Use MicroPact's Entellitrak Case Mgmt Platform for OMHA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Use MicroPact’s Entellitrak Case Mgmt Platform for OMHA Contract

    CACI International has chosen MicroPact‘s entellitrak software platform to support the former company’s task order contract with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals within the Department of Health and Human Services. MicroPact said Wednesday CACI will use entellitrak to develop an appeals case management system for OMHA as the agency’s Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing Environment. Kris Collo, president and CEO […] More

  • USAID Awards $300M HIV Test Kit Supply Contract to Remote Medical - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAID Awards $300M HIV Test Kit Supply Contract to Remote Medical

    The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Remote Medical International a potential eight-year, $300 million contract to deliver HIV diagnostic kits to USAID and the agency’s partner organizations. RMI said Tuesday the contract has an initial value of $95 million and comes under USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Program. USAID launched the $10.5 billion initiative […] More

  • GSA to Seek Input on Health IT, Cyber Special Item Numbers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA to Seek Input on Health IT, Cyber Special Item Numbers

    The General Services Administration plans to include special item numbers for health information technology and cybersecurity offerings on the IT Schedule 70 acquisition vehicle, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Aaron Boyd writes Soundjata Carty, a contracting officer at GSA’s Office of Integrated Technology Services, said the agency could publish a request for information in the coming […] More

  • LexisNexis to Help AultCare Process Health Insurance, Benefits Claims; Lee Rivas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis to Help AultCare Process Health Insurance, Benefits Claims; Lee Rivas Comments

    AultCare has selected LexisNexis to provide a suite of clinical analytics services in order to help process health insurance and benefits claims. LexisNexis will help AultCare identify risk and measuring performance for commercial, Medicare Advantage, individual and patient-centered medical home members, LexisNexis said Tuesday. Lee Rivas, public sector and healthcare CEO at LexisNexis, said the predictive analytics services […] More

  • Cisco to Hold Tech Demos at Ohio Health Innovation Center; Barbara Casey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco to Hold Tech Demos at Ohio Health Innovation Center; Barbara Casey Comments

    Cisco will set up a 900-square-feet showroom at the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland, Ohio, to demonstrate a range of medical information technology platforms. The company said Tuesday its Healthcare Customer eXperience Center would showcase interactive displays, collaboration tools, data analytics and telemedicine systems. Barbara Casey, senior practice director for healthcare transformation at Cisco, […] More

  • Lockheed, Wyle to Participate in NASA-NSBRI Space Medicine Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Wyle to Participate in NASA-NSBRI Space Medicine Research Program

    Lockheed Martin and Wyle Laboratories have submitted research proposals for a new program that seeks to examine potential health issues that astronauts may encounter during deep-space missions. The companies’ submissions are among 24 research projects that will receive $12.9 million in total funds from NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, NSBRI said Thursday. […] More

  • Tom Frana: Vion Eyes Added Health, Life Sciences Footprint Through NIH CIO-CS Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Frana: Vion Eyes Added Health, Life Sciences Footprint Through NIH CIO-CS Vehicle

    Vion will compete as the only small business original equipment manufacturer awardee on a 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services awarded by a National Institutes of Health office. The company said Thursday it will offer cloud and other IT products and services in the areas of health and life sciences via the Chief Information Officer – Commodities […] More

  • Informatica Integrates Connecticut Health Insurance Marketplace; Amit Walia Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Informatica Integrates Connecticut Health Insurance Marketplace; Amit Walia Comments

    Informatica Corp. has integrated data for Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace, which the state established to fulfill Affordable Care Act requirements. Access Health CT began operations in September 2013 and has enrolled more than 282,000 Connecticut residents since, Informatica said Wednesday. Amit Walia, senior vice president and general manager of data integration and security at Informatica, […] More