The Emergent BioSolutions-led Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing will continue the development of a therapeutic drug against Ebola under a new two-year, $19.7 million contract with the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS said Wednesday the Emergent CIADM facility will begin advanced work to manufacture a monoclonal antibody drug …
Read More »Executive Profile: Linda Boles, Healthcare Strategies, Business Development Director at ViON
Linda Boles is director of healthcare strategies and business development at ViON Corp. She brings more than two decades of experience in business development across health information technology, radiology, surgical systems and laboratory medicine areas to her role at ViON. Prior to joining the veteran-owned corporation, Boles served as president …
Read More »CACI to Use MicroPact’s Entellitrak Case Mgmt Platform for OMHA Contract
CACI International has chosen MicroPact‘s entellitrak software platform to support the former company’s task order contract with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals within the Department of Health and Human Services. MicroPact said Wednesday CACI will use entellitrak to develop an appeals case management system for OMHA as the agency’s Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing Environment. …
Read More »HHS Seeks Contractor to Update Family Planning Services Portal
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to contract a vendor to help redesign and maintain a public-facing website run by the agency’s office of population affairs. HHS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it is looking for a contractor that can also support a clinic database …
Read More »ONC Grants $300K for Six Health IT Projects
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $300,000 in total grants to six teams of developers and healthcare organizations that aim to live-test new health IT applications. The medical app developers were chosen and matched with healthcare providers through ONC’s Market R&D Challenge, according to …
Read More »CACI to Help Implement Electronic Medicare Appeals Processing System; Ken Asbury Comments
CACI International has received a five-year, $32 million task order to provide the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with a case management platform for HHS to process Medicare appeals electronically. The company said Wednesday it will use the MicroPact-made entellitrak software to implement the Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing …
Read More »Booz Allen, HITRUST to Host Cyber Event in Washington; Jim Koenig Comments
Booz Allen Hamilton and the Health Information Trust Alliance will jointly host a cyber event on March 25 meant to help participants assess their cyber response strategy. The cyber town hall session in Washington, D.C., is intended to provide industry with an understanding of cyber resources available from the Department …
Read More »InfoReliance to Help Build HHS Enterprise Apps Through AWS Cloud Platform
InfoReliance has been awarded a 12-month contract to help the Department of Health and Human Services create and test enterprise applications with Amazon Web Services cloud technology. The technology consulting firm said Monday it will provide AWS cloud computing services as well as app development and testing support to HHS’ office of …
Read More »Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Authorization to Deploy Office 365 at HHS
Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization to provide Office 365 products and services that are tailored for government agencies to the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Thursday that the authority to operate certifies Microsoft to provide HHS cloud-based email and enterprise collaboration services such as Exchange Online …
Read More »Verizon Cloud Platform Secures FedRAMP Authority to Operate; Michael Maiorana Comments
Verizon Enterprise Solutions has secured Department of Health and Human Services authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to deploy its cloud platform for the public sector. Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at the company, writes Thursday that the authority to operate is for its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The report …
Read More »SRI Int’l receives $49M NIAID contract to study HIV and AIDS therapy
SRI International has announced that it has been awarded a $49 million, seven-year contract with NIH-subsidiary the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to conduct preclinical development of HIV infection and AIDS therapies. The contract will support investigation into drug development and treatment of HIV and AIDS, as well as …
Read More »Triple-i to Provide Web, App Hosting Services for HHS Public Websites
Information Innovators Inc. has won a task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide web and application hosting services to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The company said Monday that the system is expected to host public-facing HHS websites such as Health.gov and HealthyPeople.gov. ODPHP, a unit within the Office …
Read More »Salesforce.com Gets HHS Authorization for Gov’t Cloud Service; Dave Rey Comments
Salesforce.com has received authorization from the Department of Health and Human Services to operate the Salesforce Government Cloud service that looks to provide government customers with platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service offerings. The company said Friday the cloud offering enables clients to customize or expand applications through the Salesforce1 Platform or develop new applications within a single, web-based environment. “Government …
Read More »Systems Made Simple Lands 40 Federal IT Contracts; Al Nardslico Comments
Veteran-owned Systems Made Simple has reached a milestone by securing 40 contracts for health information technology systems and services to government agencies. The contracts are meant to support the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense and Health and Human Services, SMS said Thursday. According to Al Nardslico, SMS president and co-founder …
Read More »General Dynamics IT Sets Up HHS Call Center in Coralville
General Dynamics Information Technology will set up a call center at its Coralville office in Johnson County, Iowa, that will create around 120 new jobs for the city, Press Citizen reported July 1. Adam B. Sullivan writes the contract with the Department of Health and Human Services includes both hiring …
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