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Cerner Lands $74M Data Hosting Add-On Contract Under DoD’s EHR System Modernization Initiative
Healthcare technology developer Cerner has been awarded a potential $73.7 million sole-source contract to host clinical data for the initial operating phase of the Defense Department‘s future Genesis military health records system, FCW reported Thursday. Zach Noble writes the award is an add-on to the $4.3 billion Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract the team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won in July 2015. DoD initially […] More
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Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info ‘Engine’ for Military Health System
Orion Health will provide an interoperability and information exchange platform for implementation across the Military Health System for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program at the Defense Department. The company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine works to facilitate interoperability between DoD’s EHR platform and civilian centers that provide healthcare services to uniformed personnel, the company said Monday. Orion Health is part of […] More
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Kim Harokopus: Cambridge to Support Leidos on $4B Military EHR Contract
Cambridge International Systems will act as a subcontractor to Leidos under a $4.3 billion contract for the modernization of the U.S. Defense Department‘s military electronic health records system. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health comprises four primary contractors, 30 small and large member companies, and 17 technology suppliers that will work to deliver an integrated […] More
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Roger Krone: Leidos to Lead DoD Health Record System Modernization Team
Leidos will lead a health information technology consortium to build, integrate and deploy a commercial electronic medical records platform for the U.S. Defense Department under a potential $4.3 billion contract. “We are honored to have been selected as the best-value solution for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract,” Roger Krone, Leidos chairman and CEO, […] More
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Jerry Hogge: Leidos-Accenture-Cerner Team Eyes Interoperability for Military EHR Contract
Jerry Hogge, deputy group president of Leidos’ health solutions group, said interoperability and connectivity are among key features the U.S. Defense Department want from the agency’s future electronic health records system, EHRintelligence reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick interviewed Hogge along with Jim Traficant, managing director of Accenture Federal Services, and Travis Dalton, general manager of Cerner‘s […] More
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Fulcrum Wins Military Health IT Testing Support Contract
Fulcrum has been awarded a potential five-year, $13.9 million contract to support a U.S. Defense Health Agency-run development test center for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization. The DHMS program executive office chose Fulcrum’s healthcare division to update and maintain system software at the Richmond, Virginia-based EHR testing facility, Fulcrum said Tuesday. The center is […] More
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IBM’s Andy Maner: Pentagon Seeks ‘Implemented System’ for EHR Project
IBM will not make the Watson cognitive computing system a large portion of the proposal that company and its partner Epic will provide to the Defense Department for the agency’s potential 10-year, $11 billion electronic health records contract, an IBM official has told the Washington Post. “We’re going to bid what the government asks for.. right now they’re asking […] More