Healthcare IT

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

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

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

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

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

The Department of Health and Human Services has named the winners of its challenge focused on software that can help clinicians address issues in health information technology and electronic health records. The Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge tasked teams to develop tools that aid EHR users in identifying, documenting and reporting potential safety issues in […] More