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The National Institutes of Health has entered into an agreement with Premier to license the latter’s healthcare database to support COVID-19 research initiatives.

Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his first place finish in the 2020 Wash100 Popular Vote, Navigant’s acquisition, its impact on the company’s growth and forging new partnerships. “The Wash100 Award is a big deal in our community and I appreciate Executive Mosaic for making it what it is. It’s great to promote this industry. I appreciate what you're doing for all of us.”

Octo Consulting and Indica Labs have partnered to launch the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository, a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health, Octo announced on Thursday.

Guidehouse has released a study, analyzing hospital and health system executives revenues before and after COVID-19, the company reported on Thursday. The survey was conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Battelle has been awarded a potential $400M contract by the Defense Logistics Agency on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to decontaminate N95 respirator masks to be deployed across 60 sites, the company announced on Friday.

Titan Alpha, a joint venture between Prometheus Federal Services and Atlas Research, has been awarded a 10-year, multiple-award Veterans Health Administration contract to support an integrated healthcare transformation effort, the company announced on Monday. 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration has awarded a spot on a 10-year, $1B billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract to Aptive HTG to provide healthcare and professional consulting services, the company announced on Friday.

ST Engineering has announced that it will utilize mobile robots to help healthcare organizations increase preparedness and create more resources amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, the company announced on Monday. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services has selected 25 entities to demonstrate artificial intelligence concepts as part of a competition aimed at developing AI capabilities that forecast patients’ health outcomes.

Accenture conducted a study into the healthcare sector’s understanding of a federal act focused on improving access to medical records and found that only a few insurance companies and providers are familiar with the legislation.

Charles River Analytics has been applying its artificial intelligence technology to medical efforts since 2009 to develop and deliver surgical training systems, patient support, a first-aid training framework and other products under contract awards.

In-Q-Tel executives Dan Hanfling and Tara O’Toole have said that the U.S. “risks being unprepared” for catastrophic events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, epidemics and bioattacks by failing to integrate new capabilities into emergency response technologies.

Artificial intelligence technology developer Deep Labs partnered with information technology services firm Visual Connections to develop an AI-driven system that will help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services detect fraud in Medicare-related transactions.

Hamilton Medical has won a potential 10-year, $75M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply patient monitoring systems to U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The Department of Defense said Monday the company will also provide capital equipment systems and accessories under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

SteriTrack has partnered with Microsoft to distribute a cloud-based healthcare device scanning software, which aims to provide immediate information regarding the status of equipment, across government bodies worldwide.