Tag Archives: EHR

Liberty IT Solutions has landed a potential five-year, $35M task order from the Department of Veterans Affairs to support the Electronic Health Record system’s data syndication and migration efforts.

Jon Scholl, president of Leidos’ health group, said the health information technology infrastructure needs to be mapped and assessed in order to support the Department of Defense’s new electronic health record system, HIT Infrastructure reported Friday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will host three business opportunity sessions to discuss with industry the requirements of the agency’s electronic health records modernization program.

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for guiding health policy and helping patients access and share personal medical data. This marks the first Wash100 Award for Verma.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for potential industry sources of software testing services to support VA's information technology modernization initiatives.

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 …

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 …

Cerner has announced that the Defense Department has started to see improvements in health care services delivery following the initial deployment of its new electronic health records platform, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Travis Dalton, president of government services at Cerner, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the adoption of the …

Cerner has formed an organization of private firms that will help perform a potential 10-year, $10B contract to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health care record. The EHR modernization team will resume the health information technology company’s work in meeting the medical needs of veterans, Cerner said Wednesday. VA Secretary …

Leidos has joined a Cerner-led team to upgrade the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record system through the deployment of the same EHR platform used at the Defense Department’s medical facilities worldwide. “As lead systems integrator for the DoD’s Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) program, we are pleased …

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. …

The Defense Health Agency has begun to request information on the availability of an enterprise reference and metadata management platform that will work to integrate business and health data amid the anticipated rise in clinical data driven by the adoption of a new electronic health record system. A FedBizOpps notice …

The State Department has issued a request for information on vendors that can help develop an “analysis of alternatives” for an upcoming electronic health record system procurement effort. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says that DOS needs industry support to evaluate the potential advantages and risks of the department’s shared EHR services with other federal …

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ U.S. public sector business, has said it would require a “significant effort” to integrate commercial technology with health records from the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Times reported Friday. Bierweiler told Federal Times in an interview that such effort is “not impossible.” …

Jerry Hogge, senior vice president of Leidos’ health business, has said the Leidos-led team is on schedule to implement the optimization process for the Defense Department’s commercial electronic health records system over a two-month period, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The report said DoD and the industry team will address the remaining “trouble …