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  • Change Healthcare, McKesson Unveil New Health IT Company, Form Executive Leadership Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Change Healthcare, McKesson Unveil New Health IT Company, Form Executive Leadership Team

    Change Healthcare Holdings and McKesson have launched healthcare information technology company Change Healthcare, which combines CHC’s business and majority of McKesson’s technology solutions unit. The new company also appointed 11 individuals to its executive leadership team, Mckesson said Thursday. Change Healthcare CEO Neil de Crescenzo said the company has 15,000 team members who will work with customers and partners […] 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

  • Kelly Bissell Joins Accenture Subsidiary as Global Managing Director; Omar Abbosh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelly Bissell Joins Accenture Subsidiary as Global Managing Director; Omar Abbosh Comments

    Kelly Bissell, former Deloitte cyber risk services lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa, has joined Accenture as global managing director of the latter firm’s Accenture Security subsidiary. Accenture said Monday Bissell, who was hired in June, holds 25 years of security industry experience in breach incident response, identity management, privacy and data protection, secure software development and cyber risk […] More

  • McKesson Gets Extension on 2 Managed Healthcare IT Service Contracts; Nimesh Shah Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKesson Gets Extension on 2 Managed Healthcare IT Service Contracts; Nimesh Shah Comments

    McKesson will continue to provide information technology hosting services to Virginia-based Davis Health System and the Western Reserve Hospital in Ohio under two separate contract extensions. The company said Friday it works with the two healthcare organizations to help them manage and secure their clinical and financial systems and applications. “We know our customers face an increasingly complex […] More

  • Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool

    McKesson has been selected to deploy its evidence-based clinical decision support tool at military hospitals and clinics worldwide for the Military Health System. The Military Health System selected McKesson’s InterQual system to complement its military treatment facilities’ clinical judgment tool, McKesson said Thursday. The InterQual incorporates peer reviews from clinical experts across the U.S. McKesson […] More

  • Research and Markets: Systems Integration to Drive Health IT Market Activity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Systems Integration to Drive Health IT Market Activity

    Research and Markets has reported that increased activity toward the integration of remote monitoring and diagnosis systems will drive activity in the global healthcare information technology market through 2019. The company said Tuesday its latest report predicts a compound annual growth rate of 6.44 percent for the market over a five-year period ending 2019 due to the increased IT integration […] More

  • ReportsnReports.com: EHR, Info Exchanges to Drive Healthcare IT Market Growth Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports.com: EHR, Info Exchanges to Drive Healthcare IT Market Growth Through 2020

    New research from ReportsnReports.com forecasts the global healthcare information technology market will enjoy a $13.4 percent annual growth through 2020 as more organizations use electronic health record systems and health information exchanges. ReportsnReports.com said Tuesday healthcare providers have adopted IT tools for managing workflows and patient data in an effort to meet regulatory requirements and […] More

  • Study: Healthcare Analytics Market Worth $32B in 7 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Study: Healthcare Analytics Market Worth $32B in 7 Years

    A Stratistics MRC report, released by Reportbuyer, forecasts the healthcare analytics market’s value will increase from $5.5 billion in 2014 at a 24.82 percent compound annual growth rate to hit $32.4 billion by 2022. The growing demand for healthcare-related information technology systems and implementation of federal health policies are among the forces that could drive […] More

  • Executive Profile: Arti Arthur, Philips Federal Government BD VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Arti Arthur, Philips Federal Government BD VP

    Arti Arthur serves as vice president of business development at Philips‘ federal government business and is a more than 17-year healthcare industry veteran. In this capacity, she oversees the company’s healthcare-related partnerships with the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. She joined the company in September 2013 after six years of work as VP of […] More

  • McKesson Appoints Dave Schulte Managing Director for Venture Capital Fund - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKesson Appoints Dave Schulte Managing Director for Venture Capital Fund

    Dave Schulte, formerly a vice president and managing director at Kaiser Permanente Ventures, has joined McKesson‘s venture capital arm McKesson Ventures as managing director, effective Sept. 8. McKesson said Monday Schulte will work with Tom Rodgers, the fund’s senior vice president and managing director, on the development and management of its portfolio. “Dave is a well-respected, active investor in […] More

  • Kathy McElligott Joins McKesson as EVP, CIO, CTO; John Hammergren Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kathy McElligott Joins McKesson as EVP, CIO, CTO; John Hammergren Comments

    Kathy McElligott, formerly Emerson’s chief information officer, has joined McKesson as executive vice president, CIO and chief technology officer. McElligott will succeed Randy Spratt on July 20 as the McKesson veteran is set to retire after nearly three decades of service for the company, McKesson said Monday. McElligott will oversee McKesson’s enterprise business technology strategy, […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Asia Pacific, Latin America to Drive Future Growth of Healthcare Mobility Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Asia Pacific, Latin America to Drive Future Growth of Healthcare Mobility Market

    A new MarketsandMarkets report projects the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions would drive future growth in the global healthcare mobility solutions market to $84.82 billion by 2020. The market analyst said Thursday both economies have attracted local entrepreneurs and global leaders by modifying healthcare-related regulations and monitoring how policies are implemented. The report also suggests that the growing geriatric population in Japan […] More