A coalition of technology and health companies has launched an initiative that intends to enable individuals to obtain digital access to their COVID-19 vaccination records based on interoperable, open standards. Coalition members that are advancing the Vaccination Credential Initiative include Cerner, CARIN Alliance, Change Healthcare, Evernorth, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Mitre, Safe Health, Oracle, Salesforce and The Commons Project Foundation.
Read More »Mitre Helps Form New COVID-19 Response Coalition
Mitre has joined other private organizations to create an industrial health care-focused union against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.
Read More »NOAA Seeks Tech Partner for Weather Forecasting Innovation Hub
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a potential five-year, $45M partnership opportunity to create weather forecasting models through the establishment of an extramural center. NOAA said Friday it is looking for a technology partner to help the agency establish the Earth Prediction Innovation Center.
Read More »Intelsat Selects Maxar to Construct Geostationary Comms Satellite
Maxar Technologies has been tapped by Intelsat to build a geostationary communications satellite that will work to provide high-throughput network coverage across North and Central America.
Read More »NOAA Sources Info for Future Earth Prediction Innovation Center
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks market information on the development of the Earth Prediction Innovation Center, a virtual platform that is intended to establish a community earth system model for the public and accelerate the integration of research into forecast operations.
Read More »SwRI to Help Army Researchers Update Armor Computational Analysis Tech
The U.S. Army has awarded Southwest Research Institute a potential $4.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contract to help the Army Research Laboratory update computational analysis tools for armor and warfighter survivability. SwRI said Tuesday it aims to model human injury under a $100,000 initial order and advance fracture models with the Elastic, Plastic, Impact …
Read More »Noel Allender Joins Leidos as Epic Practice Managing Director
Noel Allender, formerly Jacobus Consulting senior managing director for delivery services, has been named as the new managing director of Leidos‘ Epic practice. Allender will handle sales and business expansion opportunities for professional services and health IT consulting and drive collaboration with business leaders and partners in service delivery, Leidos said …
Read More »Mike Rhodin: IBM, Epic, Mayo Clinic Aim to Connect EHRs with Watson Supercomputer
IBM has partnered with Epic and the Mayo Clinic to help clinicians leverage IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system to access and analyze electronic health records. Epic seeks to integrate the IBM technology into clinical decision support tools that are based on open architecture and designed to offer providers insight from …
Read More »Andy Maner: Oregon College a ‘Building Block’ for IBM-Epic Military EHR Bid Team
Leaders from IBM and Epic visited Oregon Health & Science University to evaluate how the school could support the consortium’s bid for a multibillion dollar contract to modernize the Defense Department‘s healthcare management systems, the Portland Business Journal reported Thursday. Elizabeth Hayes writes the university’s simulation center could serve as a training facility for DoD can practice protocols for the future electronic …
Read More »VMware Unveils Analytics System for Healthcare Industry; Drew Koerner Comments
VMware has introduced an analytics system for healthcare industry customers to gather and analyze electronic medical records data, InformationWeek reported Friday. Charles Babcock writes the Care Systems Analytics technology is built to work with the Epic electronic medical records system in exchanging patient data. The company adapted its vCenter Operations Manager …
Read More »Microsoft Demos Windows 8-Powered Health IT Apps; Michael Robinson Comments
Microsoft has showcased a range of new Windows-powered devices, applications and service offerings for healthcare clients at the annual HIMSS conference and exhibition in Orlando, Fla. The health IT products are designed to help clinicians access electronic medical records, manage mobile care applications and collaborate with other healthcare providers anywhere, …
Read More »Dell Recognized for Healthcare Services
Dell has been recognized by Epic, as a “Community Connect Certified“ consulting services firm for Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Practice Management services. Epic based the certification on healthcare industry and consultant expertise, Epic application knowledge, IT simplification leadership and positive feedback and satisfaction from joint Epic and Dell customers. …
Read More »EPIC Submits Statement to Congress on Google-NSA Relationship
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has issued a statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the recent revelations surrounding the Google-NSA relationship. The statement asked the committee to conduct an investigation into the relationship between Google and NSA, urged the committee to support the ratification of the Council of …
Read More »The Federal Government's Latest Takeover: Your Desktop?
Glenn Beck reported on his Fox News television show July 31 that a disclaimer on the website for the federal government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program technically transfers ownership of the computer accessing the site to the federal government while connected to www.cars.gov. He warns viewers not to access the site at home, …
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