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  • Deltek Report: Federal Health IT Demand to Reach $6.4B by Fiscal 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Report: Federal Health IT Demand to Reach $6.4B by Fiscal 2021

    A new Deltek report predicts that U.S. federal government demand for vendor-furnished health information technology products and services will hit $6.4 billion by fiscal year 2021 from $6 billion in fiscal 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent. The “Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2016-2021” report forecasts that efforts to digitize, share, analyze and […] More

  • McKesson Unveils New EHR Platform; Christopher Ryan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKesson Unveils New EHR Platform; Christopher Ryan Comments

    McKesson has introduced an electronic health record platform that works to help pharmacies, laboratories and operating rooms facilitate workflow management. The Paragon 14.0 EHR system from McKesson Enterprise Information Solutions has a computerized physician order entry tool and can be integrated with the company’s OneContent enterprise resource planning system designed to facilitate storage and retrieval […] More

  • SSM Health, DoD Enter Electronic Patient Record Exchange Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSM Health, DoD Enter Electronic Patient Record Exchange Agreement

    The Defense Department and nonprofit health system SSM Health have partnered to exchange electronic health records of DoD’s active-duty service members, civilian employees, retirees and dependents. The partnership authorizes SSM Health-affiliated care providers in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma to access patient records of DoD employees, dependents and retirees while the department can also access SSM Health’s records, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Richard Vaughn, […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: US Hospital Cybersecurity Market to See 13.6% CAGR Through 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: US Hospital Cybersecurity Market to See 13.6% CAGR Through 2021

    A Frost & Sullivan analysis forecasts the market for cybersecurity platforms fielded by U.S. hospitals to experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 percent from 2016 through 2021. Healthcare organizations that seek to address the rising cases of data breaches and other cyber attacks amid the widespread adoption of electronic health records will drive the demand […] More

  • Kratos to Help Update Pentagon's Theater Medical Records System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems organization has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $23 million contract to provide integration services for a multiservice theater and shipboard medical records system. Kratos will collaborate with Planned Systems International to modernize and maintain the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint infrastructure, Kratos said Friday. The two companies will also update information technology […] More

  • Raytheon to Integrate Speech Recognition Tech Into Entrada's Mobile Health IT Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Integrate Speech Recognition Tech Into Entrada’s Mobile Health IT Platform

    A Raytheon subsidiary has agreed to combine its speech-to-text conversion technology with Entrada‘s cloud-based mobile productivity platform as the companies aim to simplify the documentation of patient data. Entrada’s technology is designed to help caregivers dictate a patient’s narrative into an electronic health record via a mobile application, Raytheon said Monday. The mobile-based healthcare platform will be integrated with Raytheon BBN […] More

  • MarkLogic’s David Nace: Industry to Play Greater Role in 2016 EHR System Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarkLogic’s David Nace: Industry to Play Greater Role in 2016 EHR System Updates

    David Nace, chief medical officer at MarkLogic, has said he expects greater participation from industry stakeholders in efforts to introduce updates on electronic health records systems in 2016. Such changes are likely to occur in the “usability” of EHR systems as doctors and medical organizations call for major upgrades of such platforms, Nace writes in […] More

  • James Reagan: Leidos Eyes SOCOM Logistics Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Reagan: Leidos Eyes SOCOM Logistics Support Contract

    James Reagan, chief financial officer at Leidos, has said the Reston, Virginia-based company plans to submit a bid for a contract to provide logistics support to the U.S. Special Operations Command, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. James Bach writes the potential contract could be part of what an analyst at Credit Suisse’s recent Industrials Conference described […] More

  • Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info 'Engine' for Military Health System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • CAE, MedAffinity Integrate EHR System & Healthcare Simulation Learning Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE, MedAffinity Integrate EHR System & Healthcare Simulation Learning Platform

    CAE‘s healthcare business has partnered with MedAffinity to integrate the latter’s electronic health record system with LearningSpace in order to support healthcare simulations for learning purposes. The companies said Tuesday the integrated technology will add simulated clinical experience content into the EHR system in an effort to help LearningSpace administrators review and score learner performance. “[Our] educators can offer […] More

  • NIST's NCCoE Seeks Comments on Draft Guide for EHR Mobile Device Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST’s NCCoE Seeks Comments on Draft Guide for EHR Mobile Device Security

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is seeking public comment on its draft guide for securing medical and patient information on mobile devices. NIST said Thursday the “Securing Electronic Records on Mobile Devices” document is the first in a series of publications providing guidance on the use of open source, standards-based or commercially available […] More

  • Walton Smith: Booz Allen Reveals Internet of Things-based Prototypes for Hospitals, First Responders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Walton Smith: Booz Allen Reveals Internet of Things-based Prototypes for Hospitals, First Responders

    Booz Allen Hamilton has introduced two Internet of Things-based prototypes – a system that intend to keep hospital patients’ data secure and another device designed to send alerts to firefighters and other first-responders during emergency situations, the IoT Journal reported Tuesday. Mary Catherine O’Connor writes Walton Smith, a principal at Booz Allen, said a location-based […] More