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  • Deloitte’s Terri Cooper Previews Federal Health Opportunities, Challenges in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s Terri Cooper Previews Federal Health Opportunities, Challenges in 2015

    Terri Cooper, Deloitte’s federal health sector lead, has highlighted the opportunities and challenges for health providers, planners, policymakers and regulators in the coming months. Cooper noted in her 2015 Industry Outlook that the health sector’s opportunity is to control costs while maintaining the quality of medical treatment for consumers. She recommended that health officials leverage developments in population health, health […] More

  • Mike Olson: Cloudera to Help Cerner Gather, Analyze Healthcare Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Olson: Cloudera to Help Cerner Gather, Analyze Healthcare Data

    Health IT company Cerner Corp. has selected Cloudera’s enterprise data hub to power its big data platform in an effort to analyze healthcare information and improve patient outcomes. Mike Olson, founder and chief strategy officer for Cloudera, said Thursday the company will work with Cerner “to capture, organize, analyze and act” on healthcare data from […] More

  • DHA Prepares Military Health IT Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHA Prepares Military Health IT Support Contract

    The U.S. Defense Department’s health services provider is seeking a contractor to support medical information technology systems across the military. In a notice published Friday on FedBizOpps, the Defense Health Agency said it would issue potential five-year contract for global help desk support related to the military health system. DHA wants a vendor who can […] More

  • Leidos Health Appoints David Silberstein Service Line Director for Analytics; Mike Pasqua Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Health Appoints David Silberstein Service Line Director for Analytics; Mike Pasqua Comments

    David Silberstein, formerly a senior partner at Teradata‘s healthcare providers practice, has joined Leidos‘ health business as service line director for analytics. Leidos said Tuesday that Silberstein will work with colleagues, partners and clients to develop strategies that help hospitals leverage their data to bolster healthcare and business outcomes. “With significant experience in business development and […] More

  • Lockheed's Horace Blackman: Health IT, Info Security, Cloud Commodification Are Top Trends in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Horace Blackman: Health IT, Info Security, Cloud Commodification Are Top Trends in 2015

    Horace Blackman, vice president of health and life sciences at Lockheed Martin, has highlighted health IT, information security and infrastructure commodification as key trends in the federal market for 2015 in an interview with Federal News Radio posted Monday. Blackman told anchor Francis Rose that trends in medical devices and applications, cloud and the security and integrity of medical data will increase in […] More

  • Booz Allen's Grant McLaughlin: Consumers to Drive Healthcare IT Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Grant McLaughlin: Consumers to Drive Healthcare IT Adoption

    Grant McLaughlin, a Booz Allen Hamilton vice president, predicts that consumers’ perceived advantages of information technology will drive electronic health systems adoption among clinicians and patients, HealthITAnalytics reported Monday. “The expectation is, ‘Well, if I can get it in the rest of my life, why can’t I get it here too?’  I think consumers are […] More

  • Lockheed's Horace Blackman: 'Biggest Opportunities' Lie in Federal Health IT Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Horace Blackman: ‘Biggest Opportunities’ Lie in Federal Health IT Space

    Horace Blackman, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of health and life sciences, attributes new business growth opportunities to the federal health information technology market, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Jay Hancock writes Lockheed Martin’s business with the Department of Health and Human Services has more than doubled to $300 million annually since 2006. “The biggest opportunities I would point to are efforts associated […] More

  • Executive Profile: Susan Penfield, Booz Allen SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Susan Penfield, Booz Allen SVP

    Susan Penfield serves as a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she focuses on the management and strategic use of health information technology tools and leads the firm’s Systems Development Center for Excellence. Penfield oversees work to develop strategies for health data interoperability, analytics tools for health information, the integration of health information, health IT modernization and implementing programs […] More

  • Alistair Rennie: IBM, CPSI Partner for Predictive Healthcare Analytics Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alistair Rennie: IBM, CPSI Partner for Predictive Healthcare Analytics Project

    IBM and Computer Programs and Systems will collaborate on a healthcare project that seeks to leverage predictive analytics technology to help rural and community hospitals cut readmission rates. CPSI and its TruBridge subsidiary plan to use IBM’s SPSS Modeler data mining and analytics platform to identify patients at increased risk of readmission in hospitals participating […] More

  • Connie Harvey: Xerox Invests in Cloud-Based Healthcare Delivery System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Connie Harvey: Xerox Invests in Cloud-Based Healthcare Delivery System

    Xerox Corp. has invested in HealthSpot‘s cloud-based care delivery system in an effort to expand patient access to healthcare. HealthSpot plans to deliver its kiosks to retail pharmacies, care centers and emergency departments across the country over the next five years under the agreement, Xerox said Wednesday. Connie Harvey, chief operating officer of commercial healthcare at Xerox, said the company […] More

  • Deltek Sees Health IT as Potential Growth Area for Federal Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Sees Health IT as Potential Growth Area for Federal Contractors

    Deltek projects U.S. government spending on electronic health record systems and other health information technology platforms to reach almost $5 billion by 2019, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Angie Petty, a Deltek senior principal research analyst, writes that federal programs and rules for health data management could accelerate use of EHRs, telemedicine and HIT analytics or cloud tools across […] More

  • Health Data Consortium Selects Christopher Boone for Executive Director Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Health Data Consortium Selects Christopher Boone for Executive Director Role

    Dr. Christopher Boone, a former vice president at healthcare advisory firm Avalere Health, will officially join the Health Data Consortium on Nov. 3 as the nonprofit organization’s executive director. Boone will oversee the group’s efforts to grow as a public-private alliance working to promote the open data movement and adoption of information technology platforms in […] More