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  • Susan Arthur: HP to Implement Colorado's Medicaid Mgmt System for CMS Platform Transition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Susan Arthur: HP to Implement Colorado’s Medicaid Mgmt System for CMS Platform Transition

    HP Enterprise Services will help configure and implement a new Medicaid management system for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing under a five-year, $116.9 million contract. As Colorado’s Medicaid fiscal agent, the company will also manage maintenance and upgrade work for the Medicaid Management Information System that is based on HP’s interChange Healthcare platform, HP said Tuesday. “The […] More

  • Deloitte Consulting to Help Fix State Health Insurance Exchange - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Consulting to Help Fix State Health Insurance Exchange

    Deloitte Consulting has won a $4.95 million contract from MNsure, the agency overseeing Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, to fix short-term problems and chart a course for the future of the exchange, the Minneapolis Star Tibune said Thursday. Jackie Crosby writes Deloitte built exchanges in Connecticut, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Washington and was one of the top candidates […] More

  • Jan De Witte: GE Buys Health Software CHCA for Workflow Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jan De Witte: GE Buys Health Software CHCA for Workflow Portfolio

    GE’s healthcare division has acquired CHCA Computer Systems, a provider of operating room management and analytics services in a move to grow GE’s software portfolio. Jan De Witte, president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s information technology business, said Tuesday that CHCA’s Opera software application will be integrated into GE’s OR and Perioperative software portfolio. De Witte added that the company intends […] More

  • Siemens Mobile C-Arm Gets FDA Clearance; Laurie Fisher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Mobile C-Arm Gets FDA Clearance; Laurie Fisher Comments

    Siemens‘ healthcare unit has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s mobile C-arm system, which is built with features designed to aid surgical teams during procedures or operations. The company said Wednesday the Cios Alpha works to generate high-resolution and high-contrast images, has a 25-kilowatt power output and flat-panel detector and has radiographic collimators. Laurie Fisher, VP for X-ray products […] More

  • Marcus Collier: General Dynamics to Help CMS Collect, Crunch Medicare Data Sets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marcus Collier: General Dynamics to Help CMS Collect, Crunch Medicare Data Sets

    A General Dynamics business unit will provide information technology services to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services‘ Virtual Research Data Center, which contains electronic Medicare data sets. General Dynamics Information Technology will work on data analytics, infrastructure development and maintenance functions, as well as provide training and technical assistance, the company said Wednesday. “CMS is the nation’s […] More

  • Steve Comber: Leidos, Medworxx to Help Healthcare Providers Implement Patient Flow Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Comber: Leidos, Medworxx to Help Healthcare Providers Implement Patient Flow Tool

    Leidos’ health business unit has partnered with Medworxx Solutions on a program to help healthcare providers utilize patient flow tools. Medworxx and Leidos Health have been implementing a patient flow platform for Alberta Health Services since 2012 and the team seeks to expand the partnership to the patient flow performance and analytics area, Medworxx said […] More

  • Dean Allemang: Health IT Industry Needs to Change Tech Expectations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dean Allemang: Health IT Industry Needs to Change Tech Expectations

    Learning how to manage different sets of healthcare data to get insights may be more realistic than trying to get everyone to agree on one interoperable format, Dean Allemang writes in a March 24 piece on the Yarc Data blog. Allemang believes survival tools are more appropriate given the current technical, political and business challenges that could impact medical […] More

  • Moffitt Cancer Center Subsidiary Joins Deloitte Analytics Consortium; Nitin Mittal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Moffitt Cancer Center Subsidiary Joins Deloitte Analytics Consortium; Nitin Mittal Comments

    Moffitt Cancer Center subsidiary M2Gen has joined Deloitte’s analytics consortium to help provide medicine studies and services to life science organizations and cancer centers. M2Gen intends to contribute to the ConvergeHEALTH consortium’s works of identifying biomarkers, matching gene-based clinical trial and creating real-world evidence, Deloitte said Tuesday. Nitin Mittal, principal at Deloitte and executive vice […] More

  • CMS Office of the Actuary's Rick Andrews Presents at 2014 SAS Global Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS Office of the Actuary’s Rick Andrews Presents at 2014 SAS Global Forum

    Rick Andrews, a programmer and analyst from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has presented at the 2014 SAS Global Forum Executive Conference on the agency’s use of SAS and Teradata software. Teradata said Mar. 20 that Andrews delivered his presentation entitled, “How SAS and Teradata Dramatically Improve Data Analysis at CMS” during a […] More

  • Vishal Agrawal: ICSA Labs Certifies Harris Platform to Support EHR Meaningful Use - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vishal Agrawal: ICSA Labs Certifies Harris Platform to Support EHR Meaningful Use

    A Harris Corp. web-based platform has been certified by ICSA Labs to help medical practices manage electronic health records and meet the federal government’s meaningful use rules. ICSA Labs assessed and validated Harris’ FusionFX patient portal system as an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology-authorized certification body, Harris said Thursday. “The certification […] More

  • Dell Unveils Cloud-Based Tool for Indian Healthcare Providers; Sid Nair Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Unveils Cloud-Based Tool for Indian Healthcare Providers; Sid Nair Comments

    Dell has introduced a cloud-based technology offering in India for integrating healthcare clinical and financial systems, CIOL reported Monday. Healthcare providers and hospitals are able to access workflows and reports across an organization using the centralized application, according to the report. Sid Nair, vice president and global general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Dell Services, […] More

  • Bruce Caswell: MAXIMUS to Host Healthcare Communication Webinars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bruce Caswell: MAXIMUS to Host Healthcare Communication Webinars

    MAXIMUS will hold a series of webinars to discuss strategies for healthcare organizations to disseminate public health data by using web, print and mobile platforms. The company’s health literacy center will host the “Communications Tune Up” webinar series between March 28 and Aug. 15, MAXIMUS said Monday. “Reaching and communicating health information to diverse populations […] More