Intel has partnered with Leidos and cloud security technology maker Fortanix to deploy integrated technologies to support real-time data sharing across a distributed network intended to streamline clinical trial procedures. Leidos used Intel’s software guard extension and Fortanix’s Confidential Computing Manager to establish a network of secure computing environments that work to handle key real-world data while complying with industry and patient privacy guidelines.
Read More »Intel, Google Cloud Participate in NIH Research Program to Help Improve Population Health
Intel and Google's cloud computing arm have joined a National Institutes of Health program that seeks to provide COVID-19 researchers access to biomedical data from underrepresented groups as part of efforts to improve population health. The NIH All of Us Research Program will make biomedical information available to researchers through the Researcher Workbench platform, which is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors and hosted on Google Cloud.
Read More »Cerner Announces EHR System Deployment at VA Medical Center; Travis Dalton Quoted
Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs have deployed an electronic health record system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington.
Read More »Liberty IT Gets Task Order to Support Data Migration Efforts for VA Health Record System
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.
Read More »Harold Poston Joins Octo Consulting Group as VP of Defense Accounts; Jim Vant Quoted
Octo Consulting Group announced on Tuesday that Harold Poston, formerly of Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined the company as vice president of Department of Defense accounts to help grow Octo's DoD business.
Read More »DHA Seeks Info on Enterprise IT for Electronic Health Record Modernization
The Defense Health Agency requests input on the implementation of enterprise information technology services across the Department of Defense's electronic health record.
Read More »Leidos' Jon Scholl: Pentagon's New EHR System Needs Fully Mapped Health IT Infrastructure
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.
Read More »VA to Host Industry Events for Electronic Health Records Modernization Effort
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.
Read More »LMI's Pat Tamburrino on Clinician Satisfaction, How to Make Health IT Enable Workforce
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 …
Read More »HHS Selects Winners of Health IT Issue Reporting Challenge
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 …
Read More »VA Seeks Contractor for Veteran Health Info Access Services
The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for information on a contractor that can help National Data Systems manage access to veterans’ health information. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday states that VA is seeking a contractor that will support NDS in distributing health data from the Veterans Health …
Read More »Cerner Provides Updates on DoD EHR System Deployment; Leidos' Jerry Hogge Quoted
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 …
Read More »Leidos Joins Cerner-Led Team to Support VA's EHR System Modernization; Jerry Hogge Quoted
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 …
Read More »Report: DoD to Raise EHR System Deployment Contract Ceiling by $1.1B
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. …
Read More »DHA Seeks Info on Enterprise Reference, Metadata Management System
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 …
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